Hours: T - F, 9am - 5pm
   Saturday: by appointment

Mark your calendar!

Caldwell Arts Council and
Tri-State Sculptors Association
present

23rd Annual Indoor / Outdoor
Sculpture Celebration
Friday and Saturday, Sept. 5 & 6, 2008
J.E. Broyhill Park
509 Ridge Street
Lenoir, North Carolina

September 5 : Blue Jean Preview Party, 6:30pm. Enjoy dinner with the artists, judge's slide show, introductions and presentations. Tickets $15 in advance.

September 6 : Starting at 9am, enjoy sculpture, live music and local vendors. Admission is FREE!

To register online, or to print the form, please click here.

Sculptors may enter three works, indoor or outdoor sculpture. This event is held outdoors, rain or shine. Please note that ONLY the three works submitted for judging are to be displayed. Photographic portfolios are encouraged. Sculpture designed for indoor use is welcome, but it's protection from the weather will be the sculptor's responsibility. Pedestals are also the sculptor's responsibility.

Security guards will patrol the park from Friday evening at 7:00pm until Saturday morning at 7:00am. Work installed in the park overnight, however, will be left at sculptor's risk. Neither the City of Lenoir, the Caldwell Arts Council, Tri-State Sculptors, nor any other sponsor will be responsible for lost, damaged, or stolen work.

On Saturday, all sculpture must remain on display in the park until 4:00pm and must be removed by 7:00pm, unless arrangements have been made in advance with the Caldwell Arts Council.

No alcoholic beverages at the J.E. Broyhill Park or the City of Lenoir Aquatic & Fitness Center.

Friday, September 5th at 6:30pm. Peers, patrons, and Judge will gather for dinner and music, followed by our annual slide show. Join with the other sculptors and talk about your work. Participate in the slide show if your wish. Meet patrons and make friends in this party-like atmosphere. Held in J.E. Broyhill Park. This is included in your registration. Sculptors' guests are $15. Please pay with your registration.

The Caldwell Arts Council was organized and incorporated in 1976 to advance the cultural arts in Caldwell County. The purpose of the Caldwell Arts Council is to establish and maintain an awareness and appreciation of the cultural arts in Caldwell County, by encouraging participation in arts, events, promoting the arts, cultural planning for the community, and by offering educational opportunities and support of artists, arts agencies and audiences.

The Tri-State Sculptors' Educational Association was formed in 1978 by a group of sculptors from Virginia, South Carolina, and North Carolina to promote public awareness and appreciation of sculpture in the region and to exchange ideas and information among its members. Membership is open to anyone interested in sculpture, regardless of style, medium, education, or location.

Robert Ebendorf. Ebendorf serves as Belk Distinguised Professor in the Arts at East Carolina University in Greenville, NC. He has taught at the University of Georgia and State University of New York at New Paltz and studied at the State School of Applied Arts and Crafts in Norway on a Fulbright Scholarship. His work is represented in many worldwide collections including the Metropolitan Museum of New York, the Victoria and Albert Museum in England, the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston, the Mint Museum of Craft Design in Charlotte, N.C., Le Musee des Arts Decoratifs de Montreal, National Museum of Wales and the Schmuck Museum in Pforzheim, Germany. The Jewelry of Robert Ebendorf: A Retrospective of Forty Years is now on display at the Racine Art Museum in Racine, Wisconsin. The Smithsonian Institution has invited him to participate in its Archives of American Art Oral History Program.

Lenoir is located at the crossroads of US 321 and NC 18

• From the west, take Interstate 40 to its intersection with NC 18 in Morganton, and go north to Lenoir.
• From the north, take US 321 from Boone south to its intersection with NC 18 in Lenoir (or turn right onto Green haven Drive, as directed below).
• From the east, take US 421 from Winston-Salem to its intersection with NC 18 in Wilkesboro, and go west
• From the south, go north to Interstate 40 and take either US 321 north from Hickory, or US 64 west from Statesville.
• From the US 321/Hwy. 64/18 intersection in Lenoir, go north on US 321 to the third stoplight, turn left onto Greenhaven Drive, and proceed approxiamately 1/2 mile to the J.E. Broyhill Park on the left. Signs leading to the will also be posted throughout Lenoir.

Bed & Breakfasts

Broyhill Family Foundation
Allene Broyhill Heilman
Norma and Jack Suddreth
Bill White
Caldwell Arts Council
Liza Plaster
The Music Center
Douglas L. Pegram
EB Wall and Associates
Barbara and Larry Freiman
Blue Ridge Energy
Patty and Welborn Alexander
Joel Kincaid and Seth Hickel
Jodi and Paul Stoecklien
Caldwell Chapter-NC Association of Educators
Forbes Printing

$2500 Best in Show

$2000 First Prize
$1500 Second Prize
$1000 Third Prize
$500 Judge's Merit Awards (6 Awards)

Every effort is being made to attract additional private and corporate buyers to this event.  NO COMMISSION is taken in the event of sales.  Please help by inviting gallery curators, friends, family, and potential buyers.   

The Caldwell Arts Council was organized and incorporated in 1976 to establish and maintain an awareness and appreciation of the cultureal arts in Caldwell County. To this end we encourage participation in arts events, promote the arts, assist in cultural planning for the community and offer educational opportunities. Finally, we support artists, arts aggencies and their audiences.

The Tri-State Sculpotors' Educational Association was formed in 1978 by a group of sculptors from Virginia, South Carolina, and North Carolina to promote public awareness and appreciation of sculpture in the region and to exchange ideas and information among its members. Membership is open to anyone interested in sculpture, regardless of style, medium, education, or location.