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Biography: IU South Bend professor Tuck Langland
Oct. 16, 2000
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SOUTH BEND, Ind. -- When Tuck Langland began teaching at Indiana University South Bend (IUSB) in 1971, the local community knew him as an art professor who also made sculpture. Today, the American art world knows him as a sculptor who is also a professor.
His sculptures are housed in eight museums and nationally known sculpture collections, including the Midwest Museum of American Art, the Minnesota Museum of American Art, the Meijer Sculpture Garden, the Lincoln National Collection and the Smithsonian Collection. The map of Langland's public sculptures spans the United States from Washington, D.C., to Honolulu, Hawaii, with the major concentration being in Michigan and Indiana.
Langland is the author of two acclaimed books on sculpture, and he lectures and leads workshops internationally. In 1982, he went on a seven-week Fulbright-sponsored tour of India, where he studied Indian art and architecture. He incorporated the resulting photographic slides of this project into lectures on the IU South Bend campus.
In 1992, the U. S. Information Agency invited Langland to spend six weeks in Uganda teaching art professors and students at Makerere University how to cast in bronze. In 1998, the IUSB Academic Senate awarded him the Teaching Excellence Recognition Award, and in 1999, the IU Foundation established the Tuck Langland Art Scholarship at IUSB.
Langland is a member of the National Academy of Art, one of only three members elected from the state of Indiana. He also is a fellow and current board member of the National Sculpture Society.
(George Vlahakis, 812-855-0846, gvlahaki@indiana.edu)