Environmental artist Steven Siegel to speak Feb. 24

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“Eco-artist” Steven Siegel will speak Wednesday, Feb. 24, at Western Carolina University. Pictured here is a 2008 site-specific sculpture in Korea titled “Like a rock, from a tree?”

Steven Siegel, an artist recognized internationally for work that comments on the natural environment, will speak at 4:30 p.m. Wednesday, Feb. 24, in Room 130 of the Fine and Performing Arts Center on the campus of Western Carolina University.

The talk is free and open to the public.

Typically working with recycled materials, Siegel has created site-specific art works in Asia, Europe, Canada and all regions of the United States, including the North Carolina Museum of Art in Raleigh. Sculpture Magazine featured a Siegel sculpture made of recycled soda cans that he created in 2002 on the WCU campus.

“[Siegel] invites viewers to analyze and accept the ambiguous relationship of technology and nature, and the comparable cycles of consumerism and geological depositions,” according to the magazine.

Siegel earned his master’s degree in fine arts from Brooklyn’s Pratt Institute and is the winner of numerous grants and awards, including a fellowship from the New York Foundation for the Arts.

For more information, contact Marya Roland, associate professor of art, at 828-227-3593 or roland@wcu.edu.