Krasl Sculpture Collection Grows to Thirty-six

After sculptors Austin Collins and Bruce White took part in the 2006 Krasl Biennial Sculpture Invitational which highlighted the talents of Chicago Sculpture International, they both decided to generously donate their works to the Krasl art center’s permanent collection. Both Collins and White were very pleased by how well their works were received by the community.

Collins of Notre Dame, Indiana, donated Temple Carousel II made of galvanized steel to the collection. Collins earned his BA from the University of Notre Dame, and his MFA from Claremont Graduate University, Claremont, California. He has sculptures in the Crown Hill Heritage Foundation in Indianapolis, Greater Reston Art Center in Reston Virginia, and King’s College in Wilkes-Barre. Pennsylvania. Collins works on themes that “generally tackle issues of social and political consequence, always with the intended aim of foregrounding concerns, which face human beings as individuals, as members of a culture and a society, as participants in the world, and as spiritual souls.”

Bruce White donated Riddle, an aluminum sculpture he created in 2000. White currently resides in DeKalb, Illinois. He obtained his BA from the University of Maryland, and his MA and DEd from Columbia University in New York. He has work in the Grounds for Sculpture in Hamilton, New Jersey, Riverfront Skate Park in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, and the city of Sarasota, Florida. “Many of my works are influenced by the unpredictable patterns of natural systems, or “orderly disorder” stated White. “In Riddle, I was fascinated by the irregular flow of bubbles in the production of Swiss cheese and the fascinating variations and random compositions of the ovals which appear in each slice of cheese.”