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IMMEDIATE RELEASE: 8-14-06 CONTACT: PUBLIC INFORMATIONSILVER CITY –A visiting professor from Northern Arizona University will teach Sculpture I and Advanced Sculpture art classes this academic year at Western New Mexico University as regular sculpture professor Michael Metcalf begins constructing the sculpture project commissioned for each side of Interstate-40 at Louisiana Avenue in Albuquerque. Kim Henkel has experience teaching foundry, fabrication, mold-making, carving, and site-specific sculpture. Additionally, Henkel has taught pinhole photography and no-silver processes as well as other workshops and classes.Henkel exhibits actively in Arizona and New Mexico and has participated in more than 16 exhibitions since 2003, including at least five solo exhibitions. She is regarded as a talented and successful ceramist as well as sculptor. She specializes in foundry work in metal fabrication. “My biggest obsession lately is with pinhole photography and non-silver printing processes such as cyanotypes and van dyke. I work in the environment by ambiguously placing my cast sculptures in the landscapes that look like expressive bones and then take pinhole photographs of them,” said Henkel. Henkel has studied in the field of paleontology and has worked as a model technician for the Mesa Museum of the Southwest. Along with the activities at the museum of installing exhibits such as “A T-Rex Named Sue” and “World Domination of Turtles,” she has been out in the field and worked in the prep labs. She is currently exhibiting installations of her work in two galleries in Flagstaff and is preparing for a large solo exhibit for next fall in Phoenix. Henkel earned a master of fine arts degree from Arizona State University, a bachelor of art degree in art education from the University of New Mexico, and a bachelor of fine arts degree in sculpture from the Indiana University of Pennsylvania. Henkel also studied abroad in London and Paris.She has taught for a number of higher education institutions including UNM, Coconino Community College and most recently at Northern Arizona University. Henkel has also taught at public schools in Tempe, Ariz., and in New Mexico at Questa and Magdalena.The Sculpture I class is offered from 9:30 a.m. to 12:15 p.m. on Tuesdays and Thursdays. The Advanced Sculpture classes are taught from 4 p.m. to 6:50 p.m. on Mondays and Wednesdays.Henklel’s work featuring sculptures, photos and an installation will be on display in the “Illusions of Integrity” exhibit at the McCray Gallery during the month of September. A blog featuring her work is located at http://kimmysculpt-kimmysculpt.blogspot.com For more information, contact Henkel at kimmysculpt@aol.com or (480) 518-0713. The fall semester begins on August 21. -30-Photos are samples of Kim Henkel’s work.