Police Sketch Artist Needed for Art Exhibition

Here is something interesting to consider participating in, as we all head off for a three-day weekend: a museum art exhibition featuring the work of police sketch artists. We are always looking for ways to promote the visibility, accessibility, and use of forensic art. Projects like these are just one more way to remind the public that we are here. I have posted the “Call for Artist” below. Have a great weekend!

Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum Exhibition

The Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum at Washington University is looking for a police sketch artist in St. Louis or one willing to travel to St. Louis to work on a series of composite sketches needed as part of an exhibition we’ll be hosting here at this fall and winter (October 8 – January 10).  The schedule and pay are negotiable.

The composite artist would work with individual museum visitors on an installation called First Love, in which visitors to the exhibition participate in the artwork by working with the sketch artist to create by hand a sketch of their memory of their first love. These “conversations-made-into-drawings” will be displayed in the museum for the duration of the exhibition, and would be hung on the wall next to the table and chairs in the gallery where the sketches take place.

The use of a professional sketch artist – as someone usually hired to draw and identify criminals or missing persons – is essential to infuse the work with associations both sentimental and tragic.

The Kemper Art Museum is the second venue for this exhibition, Rivane Neuenschwander: A Day Like Any Other, and First Love was incredibly popular at the first venue in New York City.

Here is a local news piece on First Love:

http://abclocal.go.com/wabc/story?section=news%2Flocal&id=7563095

You can find a general description of the exhibition at our website:

http://kemperartmuseum.wustl.edu/exhibitions/neuenschwander

Below is a NYTimes review of the exhibition in New York:

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/06/25/arts/design/25rivane.html?_r=1

For more information or to apply, please contact Rachel_Keith@wustl.edu.