In Good Company.
Ivan and Elliot Schwartz
welcome you to the first EIS eNewsletter! We're working
on fascinating, new projects, Ivan is based in Washington
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Object making has been such an important
part of our lives at StudioEIS, we'd like to share some
of the experiences that have made not only our work –
but working at StudioEIS – such a wonderful experience.
Our hope for this first eNewsletter is obvious: dialog
and discussion about visual storytelling, sculpture, and
ultimately the place we/you live in. Please follow the
links and write us with your comments and thoughts!
After the opening of the National Constitution Center
in 2004, where StudioEIS designed and produced 42 life-sized
bronze sculptures representing the signers of the U.S.
Constitution, the Studio began receiving requests, beginning
with George Washington's Mount
Vernon Estate and Gardens, to re-examine and reinterpret
the visual record representing some of America's most
important historical figures from Benjamin Franklin for
Franklin's 300th anniversary to Washington, Lafayette
and Hamilton for the Trustees
of the Morristown Green New Jersey.
The 2006 Mount Vernon Forensic studies - representing
George Washington at three different periods in his life
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representation that narrows the gap between our popular memory
and the representation of those people whose presence, you could
say, helped make our history.
Since the 2006 opening of the new museum and education center
at Mount Vernon, StudioEIS has unveiled several important projects
in a variety of materials and sculptural attitudes for cities
and towns and some of our most important cultural institutions.
We've been on a bit of a roll since then – designing and
producing not only the work that many of you have come to know
well, but as our visual vocabulary is very diverse, we have
also just completed a major project in Abu Dhabi working with
Studio Dror
in NYC helping to develop a series of abstract models representing
Dror's new architectural vision.
The current project list is vast and impressive! Ivan has moved
down to Washington to manage aspects of four projects under
way for The Lincoln Cottage, Thomas
Jefferson's Monticello, Montpelier,
the home of James and Dolley Madison and the National
Museum of Natural History where we
are working with forensic anthropologists on the exhibition
Written in Bone that will open to the public in February of
2009.
In addition to this extraordinary group of projects, StudioEIS
has also been at work on the new
National Infantry Museum, and several
new sports museums in Puerto Rico, along with a new bronze figure
project in Grand Rapids Mi.
In the last 18 months, projects included a major project for
the National Museum of the Marine
Corps as well as important projects
for the Tiger Woods Foundation
and TV Land
- Elvis may not have fired a shot, but he did change the world
- long live the king!
Watch out for the next edition of the EIS eNewsletter. It’ll
include an article about the new portrait of Thomas Jefferson
currently underway at the Studio, and additional content by
Dianne Durante, art historian and author of Forgotten Delights
and Outdoor Monuments of Manhattan.
Until next time,
Ivan Schwartz and Elliot Schwartz
Co-Founders StudioEIS
Brooklyn NY | Washington DC |
