International Sculpture Center & Grounds For Sculpture to host TASK Party with Artist Oliver Herring

HAMILTON, N.J. - March 23, 2015 - PRLog -- To celebrate the first-ever International Sculpture Day (IS Day), the International Sculpture Center (ISC) and Grounds For Sculpture (GFS) are pleased to present a TASK Party with internationally acclaimed artist and maker, Oliver Herring, founder of TASK.

The free improvisational art-making event takes place at GFS on April 24, 2015 from 6-10pm and all are invited. Participants will transform raw, everyday materials into improvisational and participatory sculptural experiences. Build a castle from paper plates. Illustrate a poem with tape and aluminum foil. The sky is the limit at IS Day's TASK party. The IS Day TASK Party is free and open to the public. To register to participate in the party and to learn more about TASK, visit http://www.sculpture.org/task. For more information, contact the ISC Events Department at (609) 689-1051x302 or events@sculpture.org.

Created by artist Oliver Herring, TASK is a free-form art event consisting of workshops and parties in which participants of all ages and walks of life collectively dream up instructions and carry them out with the materials provided. TASK creates community access to contemporary art in a way that is experimental, open-ended, and accessible. TASKs' flow and momentum depend on the tasks written and interpreted by its participants. Anything becomes possible. The continuous conception and interpretation of tasks is both chaotic and purpose-driven. It is a complex, ever-shifting environment of people who connect with one another through what is around them. It is also a platform for people to express and test their own ideas in an environment without failure and success. People's tasks become absorbed into the tasks of others, objects generated from one task are recycled into someone else's task without issues of ownership or permanence.

Oliver Herring lives and works in Brooklyn, New York. He received a BFA from the Ruskin School of Drawing and Fine Art, University of Oxford, England and an MFA from Hunter College, New York. In 2002 Herring created the improvisatory art event TASK, which is becoming a tool in classrooms and communities. Herring's work has been exhibited internationally, including the Museum of Modern Art, NY; the Whitney Museum of Art, NY; the Hirschhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington, DC; the Victoria and Albert Museum, London, England; The Kyoto Art Center, Kyoto, Japan; Configura II, Erfurt, Germany; and the 2010 Aichi Triennale, Nagoya, Japan, among others. Me Us Them, a fifteen year survey of Herring's work, was organized in 2009 at the Tang Museum, Saratoga Springs, NY. TASK has taken place all over the United States and beyond including in classrooms, museums, libraries and even a cornfield. Herring was featured on Season 3 of PBS's program Art21, Art in the 21st Century.

International Sculpture Day (IS Day) is an annual celebration event held worldwide on April 24 to further the ISC's mission of advancing the creation and understanding of sculpture and its unique, vital contribution to society. IS Day will include a wide range of events, openings, educational and promotional activities around the world, including demonstrations, workshops, panel discussions, tours of sculpture collections, and more. Visit http://www.sculpture.org/isday to learn more about events near you.

The International Sculpture Center (ISC) is a member-supported, non-profit organization founded in 1960 to advance the creation and understanding of sculpture and its unique and vital contribution to society. ISC programming includes awards to lifetime and student sculptors and patrons and educators, ISConnects, the web site http://www.sculpture.org, conferences and symposia, publication of Sculpture magazine and ISC Press books, and membership services to sculptors, collectors, patrons, architects, developers, journalists, curators, historians, critics, educators, foundries, galleries, and museums-anyone with an interest in and commitment to the field of sculpture.

Grounds For Sculpture (GFS), located in Hamilton, New Jersey (midway between Philadelphia and New York), is a forty-two acre not-for-profit sculpture park and arboretum founded by Seward Johnson. Its collection features more than 270 contemporary sculptures by renowned and emerging artists. Exhibitions change seasonally in six indoor galleries. With rich educational offerings, a robust schedule of performing arts, and fun family events, the park is open year-round. Shopping and dining options complement every visit. For hours, admission prices, and a calendar of events, visit http://www.groundsforsculpture.org.