John Poole Thumper ,2005
bronze, steel, wood

The Nora Eccles Harrison Museum of Art, located on the campus of Utah State University, Logan, announces an exhibition of The 9th International Shoebox Sculpture Exhibition. Dozens of small sculptures from around the world show how artists have handled the challenges of space and scale dictated by the size of an ordinary shoebox.  An invitation-only exhibition, this triennial has attracted a large number of well-known artists from Hawai‘i, the U.S. mainland, Australia, Belgium, Canada, Finland, Germany, Great Britain, Japan, Mexico, Norway, The Netherlands, South Korea, Taiwan, and Vietnam. The exhibition organized by the University of Hawai’i Art Gallery, will be on view at the Nora Eccles Harrison Museum of Art, March 20 - May 5, 2007 and then will travel to other venues available http://www.hawaii.edu/artgallery/shoebox/schedule.htm.

                        With a desire to see the work of sculptors from around the world, Mamoru Sato and Fred Roster, professors at the University of Hawai‘i at Mänoa, developed the exhibition concept for The International Shoebox Sculpture Exhibition.  Because of the often large and awkward nature of sculpture, national and multi-national exhibitions are cumbersome and costly.  Thus, the small format of these exhibitions, with the subsequent ease and economy of handling, provides broader exposure to contemporary sculpture.   The first of the triennial Shoebox exhibitions was held in 1982.