Take Me to the River

PRINCIPAL ARTIST MEMBERS
John Brown-USA
David Carlson-USA
Richard L. Dana-USA
Ashraf Fouad-Egypt
Mansoora Hassan
-Pakistan/USA
Judy Jashinsky-USA
Donna Kukama- South Africa
Ivana Panizzi-Brazil
Patricia Secco-Brazil
Ruza Spak-Germany
Betsy Stewart-USA
Andres Tremols-Cuba/USA

CURATOR
Cohn Drennan -USA

ASSOCIATE ARTIST MEMBERS
Neno Belchev-Bulgaria
Y. David Chung
-USA/Germany/Korea
Billy Colbert-USA
Sherman Fleming-USA
Abrie Fourie- South Africa
JeanNette Gaussi
-Germany/Afghanistan
Suguru Hiraide -Japan
Sadik Incesu-Turkey
Maggie Michael -USA
Randall Packer-USA
Jose Ruiz-Peru
Lars Torres-USA

ARTIST PROGRAM PARTICIPANTS
Turan AksOY-Turkey
Svetozara Alexandrova
-Bulgaria
Liz Yarosz Ash-USA
B.C. Gilbert-USA
Khaled Hafez-Egypt
Nicholas Hlobo-South Africa
Sharlene Khan -South Africa
Claudette Lopez-Jamaica
Churchill Mandikida
-South Africa
Hassan Meer-Oman
Nur Muskara-Turkey
Moataz Nasr -Egypt
Shady El Noshokaty -Egypt
Guntac Ozdemir-Turkey
Hossam Sakr-Egypt

Serenity, 2000, steel, ceramic, cast glass

Suguru Hiraide (Japan)

Suguru Hiraide was born in Nagano prefecture, Japan, in 1969. After he graduated from high school, he moved to Tokyo in 1988. He came to the U.S. to attend college in 1992. He received his BFA in Sculpture and Graphic Design from West Virginia University and his MFA in Sculpture from California State University, Fullerton. Many of his sculptures are kinetic combined with cast materials such as aluminum, silver, and bronze. His recent exhibitions include; As We Glow Forward, Museum of Neon Art, Los Angeles, CA (2006); The 5th American & Japanese Artists Exchange Show, Kitakyushu Municipal Museum of Art, Kitakyushu, Japan (2005); Mix! Series, The Dallas Center for Contemporary Art, Dallas, TX (solo, 2005); re–ACTION, Art League Houston, Houston, TX (2005); and epitome II, LA Artcore gallery in the Union Center for the Arts, Los Angeles, CA (solo, 2004). Since 2003, he has been teaching Sculpture and Metals at Midwestern State University in Wichita Falls, Texas. Unlike the stereotype of the height of most Japanese, he is 6’4” (193 cm).