EAF05: 2005 Emerging Artist Fellowship Exhibition
September 10, 2005 - March 5, 2006

Opening Reception: Saturday, September 10, 2005 / 2-6 PM

Long Island City, NY – Socrates Sculpture Park is pleased to announce the opening of EAF05: The 2005 Emerging Artist Fellowship Exhibition featuring new works by Marc Ganzglass, Dave Hardy, Klara Hobza, Margret Lee, Noah Loesberg, Kelly Parr, Hanna Sandin, David, Hyungsub Shin and Jonathan VanDyke.

Through the Emerging Artist Fellowship Program, Socrates Sculpture Park gives artists the opportunity to pursue open artistic exploration and to create work on a scale that would otherwise be impossible to realize, especially within the confines of New York City’s limited affordable studio space. The program offers artists an important chance to expand both the scale and the scope of their practice at an early stage in their development while working with new materials and learning about the challenges and requirements of outdoor sculpture. Fellowship recipients are given financial support, a residency in the outdoor studio, access to the space, facilities, materials and technical assistance to create new works for exhibition in the Park. Socrates is a laboratory where experimentation and innovation expand, reinvent and redefine the tradition of art in public spaces.

Socrates Sculpture Park is open 365 days a year from 10am to sunset and is located at the intersection of Broadway and Vernon Boulevard in Long Island City. For directions to the Park, please visit our website:
www.socratessculpturepark.org.

For additional information about the exhibition or the Emerging Artist Fellowship Program, please
contact Socrates via email, info@socratessculpturepark.org.

This exhibition is made possible by the dedication and support of our volunteers and friends and by the generosity of: AG Foundation • Altria Group, Inc. • Lily Auchincloss Foundation, Inc. • Milton and Sally Avery Arts Foundation • Carnegie Corporation of New York • David R. and Vivien Collens • The Cowles Charitable Trust • Mark di Suvero • The Fifth Floor Foundation • The Horace W. Goldsmith Foundation • Jerome Foundation • Wendy Evans Joseph • JPMorgan Chase • Richard and Ronay Menschel • Ivana Mestrovic • National Endowment for the Arts • New York State Council on the Arts • The Pincus Charitable Fund • Brooke Kamin Rapaport and Richard A. Rapaport • Rev. Alfred R. Shands III • Mr. and Mrs. Thomas W. Smith • Janice Stanton and Ronald Windisch • The Roy and Niuta Titus Foundation • The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts

This program is supported, in part, by public funds from the City of New York Department of Cultural Affairs and by the Jerome Foundation in celebration of the Jerome Hill Centennial and in recognition of the valuable cultural contributions of artists to society.

Special thanks to the City of New York, Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg, Queens Borough President Helen M. Marshall, City Council Speaker A. Gifford Miller, Assemblywoman Catherine Nolan, City Councilmember Eric Gioia, and the Department of Parks & Recreation, Commissioner Adrian Benepe.

Socrates Sculpture Park is grateful for the generosity of: Harold H. Anthony, Inc. • John P. Corrieri, Inc.• E & TPlastic Manufacturing Co., Inc. • Garlock East • ImageKing Visual Solutions • Long Island General Supply Co. • Materials for the Arts • Plant Specialists • SignExpo TriBeCa • Spacetime C.C.