The University of Illinois at Springfield's Women's Center will host a week of events featuring Kansas City body cast artist Larry Kirkwood, from February 5-9. An Evening for the Healing of Body Image.
All events are free and open to the public.
An exhibit of women's body casts will be on display in the center. Kirkwood began taking casts of the human body in 1993 after decades of working as a painter and printmaker. With his first body casts, the powerful personal and cultural issues the casts evoked immediately struck him. Since that time, Kirkwood's work has focused on challenging the way we see others and ourselves and on getting people to see the human body aesthetically and with acceptance. These exhibits give the viewers the opportunity to see for themselves that regardless of the shape and size of one's body, the concept of 'visual beauty' applies.