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Visiting Artist Opening Reception: Jarrod Beck

Join us for the opening reception of our recent Visiting Artist's work at Sloss Furnaces!

Time & Location

Dec 18, 2025, 6:00 PM – 8:00 PM

Sloss Furnaces Historic Powerhouse, 20 32nd St N, Birmingham, AL 35222, USA

About the event

Join us as we celebrate the newly completed work by our recent Visiting Artist-in-Residence, Jarrod Beck. The reception will be held at Sloss Furnaces in our historic powerhouse. Park in the Visitor Center parking lot and follow the posted signs!

This event is free and open to the public, but please RSVP to let us know you'll be there! 

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About Jarrod: 

Jarrod Beck is an installation artist, printmaker and sculptor. He has created outdoor sculptures for Socrates Sculpture Park (Astoria, NY), Sara D. Roosevelt Park (NY, NY), Calder Plaza (Grand Rapids, MI) and the Anti-Defamation League (Omaha, NE); installations at Wave Hill, South Street Seaport Museum, Bemis Center for Contemporary Art, Instituto Cervantes, Rhode Island School of Design, Stony Brook University, Universidad Central de Venezuela, Cape Cod National Seashore and the Provincetown Art Association and Museum. His drawings are in the collection of the Museum of Modern Art. He was recently a Visiting Artist at UrbanGlass in Brooklyn and has been an artist-in-residence at Dieu Donné Papermill, MacDowell Colony, Fine Arts Work Center, Yaddo, Sculpture Space, Robert Blackburn Printmaking Workshop, Lower East Side Printshop, Vermont Studio Center, Siena Art Institute and the Robert Rauschenberg Foundation. His collaborations include a series of prints and a score for sculpture created with the choreographer Will Rawls, an installation created for performance artist John Kelly’s Love of a Poet, and a series of prop-sculptures for the choreographer Jon Kinzel. He earned a M.Arch degree from Tulane University and a MFA from the University of Texas at Austin.

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20 32nd Street North
Birmingham, AL 35222
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