RedBall Project x 21c Museum Hotel, 21c Museum Hotel Bentonville, 11 September 2024 (2024)

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Join us at 21c to learn more about the exciting RedBall Project, making its Northwest Arkansas debut this September. The RedBall Project has been coordinated by the Municipal Arts Alliance, a project of CACHE.

All sales profits will be donated to the Bentonville Public Art Advisory Committee. Learn more about the Committee .

• 6:00 Cocktail Hour - beer or wine included in your ticket price
• 6:30 Red Ball Project Presention - learn about the history of the Red Ball Project, considered the world's longest-running "street art work" by creator Kurt Perschke. This work has been to over 40 cities and is making its Bentonville debut this September.
• 7:15 Public Art Panel - Moderated by Dayton Castleman of Verdant Studio, Kurt Perschke will join three local panelists to share their experiences working in public art, from local government to privately managed projects.

Panelist Include:

Kurt Perschke: Kurt Perschke is an artist who works in sculpture, video, collage and public space. His most acclaimed work, RedBall Project, is a traveling public art project that has taken place in over 40 cities including Abu Dhabi, Taipei, Perth, England, Barcelona, St. Louis, Korea, Portland, Sydney, Arizona, Chicago and Toronto, and received a National Award from Americans for the Arts Public Art Network.

RedBall has been avidly followed by the media, appearing in over a thousand media outlets including magazines, television, newspaper and radio. In addition to RedBall, Perschke has completed commissions for several institutions including The Museum of Contemporary Art Barcelona, the Vienna Technical Museum, and the Contemporary Art Museum in St. Louis. His video work has been screened in Europe and the US, and at the Bronx Museum during his time as an AIM Fellow. Born in Chicago, Kurt Perschke has also lived in the Virgin Islands, St. Louis, Vienna, and Cairo, Egypt. After 15+ years in NYC he currently lives and works in Asheville, NC.

Shelli Kerr: Shelli Kerr, AICP, is the Comprehensive Planning Manager for the City of Bentonville. She has provided staff support to Bentonville’s Public Art Advisory Committee since 2012. During that time, she led the coordination, selection, installation and promotion of more than 40 temporary and permanent artworks on public property in Bentonville. Shelli is the city’s representative for the Northwest Arkansas Municipal Arts Alliance and served on the Arts Council in Bella Vista where she lives.

She received a Bachelor of Science from Southwest Missouri State University, now Missouri State University, in 1993. After graduating from Kansas State University with her Master’s Degree in 1997 in community planning, Shelli worked as a community planner with Bucher, Willis and Ratliff in Kansas City, MO and as a neighborhood planner in Overland Park, Kansas.

Shelli has served on the board of directors for Downtown Bentonville, Inc., the executive committee of the Northwest Arkansas Regional Planning Commission, communications chairperson for the Arkansas Chapter of the American Planning Association and was a founding board member of the Amazeum. In 2007, she was recognized for her career in planning with an Alumni Honoree Award from the College of Architecture, Planning and Design at Kansas State University.

Carlyn Wilder: Carlyn Wilder (they/she) serves the Northwest Arkansas community as the Associate Curator of OZ Art, a collection of contemporary and public art with the mission of offering accessible and diverse art encounters in surprising locales across the region. With over 12 years of experience in contemporary art, culture, and arts administration, Carlyn comes to Bentonville from previous curatorial appointments at the Baltimore Museum of Art where they worked on several major international touring exhibitions such as the Joan Mitchell retrospective, and The Culture: Hip Hop and Contemporary Art in the 21st Century. They also served as the co-founding Director and Curator of Terrault Gallery, a contemporary arts space in Baltimore, MD that centered traditionally underrepresented emerging artists.

Outside of their love for art, Carlyn is an avid rock climber and gravel cyclist with a passion for great food and the outdoors

Claire Kolberg: Claire Kolberg brings over 15 years of experience in executive administration, operations, and event and production management. Most notably, she was the Director of the award-winning The Unexpected from 2015 – 2023 bringing over 45 pieces of artwork to downtown Fort Smith and more throughout Arkansas. As a member of the 64.6 Downtown/ Main Street Fort Smith team, she is additionally responsible for programming, marketing, and social media and website management.

Dayton Castleman (Moderator): Dayton Castleman is an artist, curator, educator, and administrator based in northwest Arkansas. His multi-modal studio practice spans sculpture, painting, photography, and performance, and undergirds his role as Director of Creative Placemaking at Verdant Studio, a woman-founded and owned architecture firm based in Rogers, AR.

Born and raised in New Orleans, he has lived and worked in Jackson, Miss., Houston, Philadelphia, and Chicago. His artwork has been included in museum and gallery exhibitions throughout the United States and in Europe.

His research has focused on artwork in architectural and public spaces for the past 20 years, and his research interests include art ecosystem development, visual perception theory, and religion in art.

He holds a BA in Art with a painting concentration from Belhaven University, and an MFA in Sculpture from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago.

He and his wife Karen have three kids, with one in college, and have lived in NWA since 2012.

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21c Museum Hotel Bentonville, 200 Northeast A Street, Bentonville, United States