With the arrival of spring, the landscape at Laumeier Sculpture Park is bursting with life and color.  As visitors continue to enjoy the In Sight exhibition in the indoor galleries, the staff is hard at work preparing for the 2009 Kranzberg Exhibition.  I thought I’d share the names of the local artists whose work will blossom in the galleries this June. The six artists are busy creating five unique installations for the seventh edition of the Kranzberg series.

Sarah Frost will construct two large-scale, site specific sculptures of repurposed items from daily life.

Craig Norton will create an installation employing drawings, stencils and wooden sculptures that will focus on the continuing strife in the Darfur region of Sudan.

Stan Chisholm will construct an installation/environment using a variety of two and three-dimensional materials in a large narrative vignette filled with idiosyncratic figures.

Mike Behle will exhibit paintings and sculptures reflecting on emotional contrasts of the human condition.

Cameron Fuller & Sarah Paulsen will collaborate on an ambitious gallery installation merging Fuller’s architectural, sculptural trickery with animations by Paulsen.

Visit our website for more information and mark your calendars for the evening of June 5 and check-out these local artists on the rise.