Sculpture In Motion: Dance, Math, and Welding Collaboration

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For the First Lansing Community College Open House, April 1996 Mitzi Carol (dance), Nan Jackson (math), Vern Mesler (welding) Fabrication by LCC welding faculty and Cathie Lindquist’s EISD students, along with dance and art students. Featured here is one of several steel sculptures created for the Open House (photos by Nan Jackson).

Sculpture in Motion LCC 1996
Illustration from a book selected by Zandrah Stoneburner as inspiration for a human-sized steel sculpture in which to dance.
Sculpture in Motion LCC 1996
Zandrah Stoneburner (left) discusses the design with Vern Mesler (right) in LCC’s old welding lab in the basement of the Gannon Building.
Sculpture in Motion LCC 1996
Zandrah Stoneburner works on grinding a circular steel piece for the sculpture.
Sculpture in Motion LCC 1996
The sculpture takes shape, with LCC dance student Zandrah Stoneburner.
Sculpture in Motion LCC 1996
A sculpture of many tangent circles within circles, from illustration to paper model to finished product in steel.
Sculpture in Motion LCC 1996
The sculpture is now in the yard of Jim Perkins, retired LCC architecture professor, at the corner of Moores River Dr and Cambridge Rd in Lansing, Michigan.
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