Public Humanities/museum sculpture/park design

DUG Panel / Brown Degree Days: “Urban Studies After Brown”
Mark your calendars:  Wednesday, April 1, 2009, 7:30 PM, Lower Salomon
Refreshments served starting at 7pm
 
Three former Urban Studies concentrators will return to Brown to discuss how Urban Studies shaped and continues to shape their professional experiences. Panelists: Brian Bixby Esq (’74), Darrell Petit (’82), Matt Soursourian (’08).
 
Public Humanities students should be particularly interested in the work done by one of the panelists.   Everyone is welcome.
 
 
About Darrell Petit:
“A native of Montreal, Petit earned a bachelor’s degree in urban planning from Brown University, studied at the Institute for Architecture and Urban Studies in New York and earned a master’s of art and sculpture from the University of Iowa.
 
‘A formative event was seeing the opening of the Isamu Noguchi Museum in New York,’ he recalls. The impact of that artist’s work led him to Berlin, where he worked for an American sculptor while making his ‘first effort at shaping granite to make expressive form’ at a Germany academy of art.
 
Petit recently constructed the base for the Torosaurus sculpture at the Yale Peabody Museum of Natural History in New Haven, a piece that ‘works dynamically with the position and post of the dinosaur.’ …He’s currently creating an urban park in Scarsdale, N.Y., making a new piece for an exhibition in Tokyo, preparing for a temporary installation at a December art fair in Miami and consulting on two lower Manhattan projects.”