The LCAD Gallery exhibition will reveal Turk’s extensive creative process that will lead up to the Shoreline Project, a public performance of 1,000 volunteers holding LED-illuminated umbrellas. The performers will converge at sunset Saturday, November 3^rd on the shoreline of Laguna Beach’s Main Beach. Spectators are welcome to watch and experience the event.

“The Shoreline Project at LCAD Gallery is a perfect educational opportunity for students and the community to experience Turk’s path to develop a complex concept to integrate art, science, and nature into an interactive experience,” said Jonathan Burke, president of LCAD. “Elizabeth is a good friend to LCAD. In 2016, she was the Commencement Speaker and her words were inspiring and encouraging to our graduates.”

Turk is a celebrated sculptor who works in marble, bronze, iron, glass, and porcelain and is also an accomplished photographer and videographer. She has won several awards and grants, including: a MacArthur Genius Grant and the Barnett and Annalee Newman Foundation Fellowship, both in 2010; a Smithsonian Artist Research Fellowship in 2011; and a Helena Modjeska Cultural Legacy Award for Artistic Achievements from Arts Orange County in 2012. In 2014, her work was the subject of a solo exhibition at Laguna Art Museum, Elizabeth Turk: Sentient Forms.

Turk’s works are in the permanent collections of the National Museum of Women in the Arts, Washington, D.C.; the Weatherspoon Gallery, University of North Carolina, Greensboro; The Mint Museum, Charlotte, NC; and Los Angeles County Museum of Art.