WWU Studio Arts Dept. to Host Portland Visual Artist David Eckard Dec. 1

Contact: Western Washington University associate professor of Art Garth Amundson at (360) 650-3436 or garth.amundson@wwu.edu.

BELLINGHAM – Portland visual artist David Eckard will discuss past, present and future projects in a free public lecture at noon on Wednesday, Dec. 1 in Fine Arts 238 on the Western Washington University campus.

Visual artist David Eckard will appear in a free public lecture at WWOU at noon on Dec. 1 in Fine Arts 238.

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Eckard is an associate professor and chair of the Sculpture Department at Pacific Northwest College of Art (PNCA) in Portland. In March of this year, he was awarded the prestigious Bonnie Bronson Fellowship award, and he recently returned from a two-year teaching fellowship in France.

In addition to teaching, he had solo exhibitions at the Centre International D'Art Contemporain in Pont-Aven, France and at Atelier Dado in Cetinje, Montenegro. He has exhibited across the nation, with solo shows in New York, Seattle, Portland, and Chicago. He received a Juror's Award in the 2006 Oregon Biennial at the Portland Art Museum.

Eckard has performed at PICA's TBA Festival in 2004 and 2006, and for New Works Northwest at On the Boards, Seattle in 2005. Recently, his work "Mountebank (a moral decline)," comprised of sculpture and drawings, was also included in "Portland 2010: A Biennial of Contemporary Art.”

For more information on Eckard’s free public lecture, contact WWU’s Garth Amundson at (360) 650-3436 or garth.amundson@wwu.edu.