SculptCAD Rapid Artists and TEDxSMU

The SculptCAD Rapid Artists Project TEDxSMU salon held September 14 at One Arts Plaza was a rousing success. The event sold out in advance and featured talks by SculptCAD president and founder, Nancy Hairston, and SCRA participants Shawn Smith, Heather Gorham and Brad Ford Smith. Many thanks to everyone who made it out for an evening of high technology meeting fine art.

Here is Brad Ford Smith on the event:

It turned out that the TEDxSMU salon for the SculptCAD Rapid Artists exhibit sold out. The attendees were of very diverse back grounds. I think linking up with TEDx brought in an intellectual segment of the population that usually do not attend art openings.

As for the art talk, Nancy Hairston gave a strong powerpoint overview of the technical process. Shawn Smith then talked about developing his sculptural idea, followed by Heather Gorham with images of her sculpture being fleshed out. I presented last with a bit of babble about creating without touching. The acoustics in the One Arts Plaza lobby were so bad my voice bounced back at me in a foreign language. Thankfully for me and the audience I only had to talk for 5 minutes. Afterwords several people approached me with some great questions, so that was great.

Also from Brad:

I mentioned in the last post that TEDxSMU had a really good photographer at the TEDxSMU salon SculptCad Rapid Artists exhibit. I just found out it was Kim Ritzenthler. Here is the link to her website and the link to the TEDxSMU flickr page.

Thanks Kim for catching the moment.