WWU to Hold Jan. 12 Dedication for Public Artwork Featuring Nooksack River Imagery

A dedication ceremony for of the new permanent public artwork by artist Claude Zervas titled “Nooksack Middle Fork” will take place at 4:30 p.m. on Tuesday, Jan. 12 in the Western Washington University Performing Arts Center.

Following the ceremony there Zervas will hold a lecture and reception at 5 p.m. in the Western Gallery. The dedication, lecture and reception are free and open to the public.

The piece, which is a four-channel, wall-mounted video installation that presents aerial views of four bends in the Nooksack Middle Fork of the Nooksack River, will be located in the lobby of the PAC. The images for the piece relied on new drone technology, which Zervas used to fly his video equipment above the Nooksack River.

Zervas is known for his exploration of light and nature by technologically sophisticated means, such as video and electronic sculpture. He attended Western in the early 1980s before moving to Paris. He now lives and works in Seattle and his works have been shown widely and have been collected by major museums, including the Whitney Museum of American Art, Seattle Art Museum, Tacoma Art Museum and the Microsoft Corporation.

For more information, contact Chris Casquilho, Western Washington University’s College of Fine and Performing Arts manager of Marketing and Special Events at (360) 650-2829, or chris.casquilho@wwu.edu.