News Release
October 2003
(Bethlehem, Pennsylvania)—Artist and sculptor Kerstin Engman
will speak at Moravian College on Thursday, October 2 at 7:30 p.m.
in Room 101 of the Priscilla Payne Hurd Academic Complex. The title
of her talk is “Twenty Years of Making Women – A Creative
Process Defined an Examination of a Woman in the Arts.”
For the past 20 years, Engman has used sculpting
to communicate conditions of human experience. “Each is suggestive of roles or circumstances
that define female place within her culture, community, home,” says
Engman. For her, sculpting is an intellectual as well as emotional
process of asking questions, making sense of the complex conditions
of living, exploring the rules imposed on us, and examining the choices
that we make. Although her work is not autobiographical, it does reflect
personal attachments, reactions, and conclusions. All of her work has
been cast in bronze or fabricated in steel and copper.
Engman earned her B.F.A from the Portland School
of Art (now Maine College of Art) in 1979. She then attended one
year of her Master’s
Degree at Rhode Island School of Design. She completed the degree in
1990 at the University of Pennsylvania. Returning to Maine, she has
worked and lived there for the past 13 years. Engman has taught various
drawing and sculpture classes at colleges throughout Maine and has
visited many New England campuses as a guest lecturer. Engman has traveled
throughout Europe and taught English in Hungarian Public Schools.
Admission to the lecture is free and the public
is invited. The Priscilla Payne Hurd Academic Complex is located
near the corner of Monocacy
and Locust Streets on Moravian’s Main Street Campus. For more
information, call 610-861-1491 or visit www.moravian.edu. The lecture
is sponsored by Moravian’s Arts and Lectures Committee.
