Collections

(selected)

Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, New York
Aldrich Museum of Contemporary Art, Ridgefield, Connecticut
American Medical Association, AMA Plaza, Chicago, Illinois
The Arkansas Museum of Fine Arts Foundation Collection, Little Rock, Arkansas
Armory Center for the Arts, Pasadena, California
Baltimore Museum of Art, Baltimore, Maryland
Brooklyn Museum, Brooklyn, New York 
Butler Institute of American Art, Youngstown, Ohio
Des Moines Art Center, Des Moines, Iowa
Fort Worth Art Museum, Fort Worth, Texas  
Georgia Museum of Art, Athens, Georgia 
High Museum of Art, Atlanta, Georgia
Joslyn Art Museum, Omaha, Nebraska 
Katzen Arts Center, American University Museum, Washington, DC
Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA), Los Angeles, California
​Madison Museum of Contemporary Art (MMoCA), Madison, Wisconsin
MIT, The Center for Advanced Visual Studies (CAVS) Special Collection, Cambridge, Massachusetts
Meeker Investments, Fort Worth, Texas
Memorial Art Gallery, Rochester, New York 
The Menil Collection, Houston, Texas
Metro-Dade County Aviation Department, Miami, Florida
Miami-Dade County Department of Cultural Affairs, Miami, Florida
Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth, Fort Worth, Texas
National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC
New Orleans Museum of Art, New Orleans, Louisiana 
Old Jail Art Center, Albany, Texas
Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania  
Phillips Collection, Washington, DC 
Princeton University Art Museum, The William C. Seitz Memorial Collection, Princeton, New Jersey  
Robert Rauschenberg Foundation, New York, New York
Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington, DC
Smithsonian Archives of American Art, Washington, DC
Spencer Museum of Art, Lawrence, Kansas 
Stephen P. Clark Government Center, Miami, Florida 
The Roy Lichtenstein Foundation, film/video database of The Program for Art on Film, Brooklyn, New York
University of Iowa Stanley Museum of Art, Iowa City, Iowa
Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, Minnesota 
Witte Museum, San Antonio, Texas

Public Art

Crystal Willow, Bethesda, Maryland
Day Star, The Children’s Inn at the National Institute of Health, NIH, Bethesda, Maryland 
Sun Flowers (Kite Flight), Veterans Administration Medical Center, Memphis, Tennessee
The Miami Line, Miami, Florida
The White Tornado, Frank Carlson Federal Building & U.S. Courthouse, Topeka, Kansas
Transparent Paper Airplanes, Miami International Airport, Miami, Florida (in storage)

Panels & Talks

(known)

Rockne had that ability, to hold people spellbound. I remember him at a sculptors’ conference in Huntsville, Alabama, he was just remarkable. Making those lasers come to life through 35mm slides and the power of his conviction.

William Dunlap, 2013

Panel, Washington Gallery of Modern Art, Washington, DC, Walter Hopps, Paul R. Haldemann, and Rockne Krebs, 1968.

2023 International Laser Display Association (ILDA) Conference, Atlantic Beach, North Carolina. Rockne Krebs: A pioneer of laser art and a master of contemporary environmental sculpture, Artistic Seminar presentation by Heather Krebs.

2018 Transformer's 2018 Collector's View Series hosted by Durwood Dixon, Washington, DC. Heather Krebs discussed the Rockne Krebs smoke drawing from 1973 in Dixon’s collection.

2013 The Spencer Museum of Art, Kansas University, Lawrence, KS. Up Close with Steve Goddard: Drawings for Sculpture You Can Walk Through, a curatorial tour of the Rockne Krebs exhibition.

2005 Lecturer, Kansas University, Lawrence, KS. Department of Art opens the "2005-2006
Visiting Artists Series with Rockne Krebs, the notable light artist and sculptor. "

1995 Panelist, Visual Artists Rights Act of 1990, VARA, Panel Public Hearing, Library of Congress, Copyright Office, Washington, DC.

1990 Proposal Presentation, Miami International Airport, Art in Public Places, Transparent Paper Airplanes, Miami, FL.

1990 ​Lecturer, University of South Carolina, Department of Art, Columbia, SC.

1989 Panelist, “Art Censorship After The Mapplethorpe Controversy” Panelists: David Elsner, Jim Fitzpatrick and Rockne Krebs. Sports and Entertainment Law Forum, University of Virginia School of Law, Charlottesville, VA.

1989 Lecturer, RISD Glass Visiting Artists, Rhode Island School of Design, Providence, RI.

1989 Lecturer, Maryland College of Art and Design, Silver Spring, MD.  

1988 Lecturer, Visual Artists Series, Rockne Krebs, Laser Sculptor, SUNY-Plattsburgh, NY.

1988 Lecturer, “The development of Laser Art" Oklahoma Art Center, Oklahoma City, OK.

1987 Lecturer, Memorial Art Gallery - University of Rochester, Rochester, NY. Neo-Green, an urban-scale laser installation commissioned for the museum’s reopening.

1986 Lecturer, UW-Madison Art Department Visiting Artist/Critic Program History, Madison, WI.

1984 Public Debate Panel between the Corcoran staff and artists: Bob Arnebeck, Sam Gilliam, Rockne Krebs, and Leslie Kuter, Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, DC.

1983 Lecturer, Rockne Krebs Seminar, Baxter Art Gallery, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA.

1983 Panelist, "Sky Art Conference ’83" Center for Advanced Visual Studies, Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Rockne Krebs, Fellow, C.A.V.S., 1973-74

1983 Panelist, Sculpture and Technology.  CAA, 71st Annual Meeting of the College Art Association of America, Philadelphia, PA.  

Press photo, St. Petersburg, FL, 1976

1982 Lecturer/Panelist, “Sky Art Conference ‘82” in Linz, Austria.  Center for Advanced Visual Studies, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA.

1982 Lecturer, Kansas University, Lawrence, KS.

1981 Lecturer, “Sky Art Conference ’81" Center for Advanced Visual Studies, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge.  The Christian Science Monitor, October 1981, Go fly some art.
 
1980 International Sculpture Center, Sculpture 11 Highlights, The 11th International Sculpture Conference, Washington, DC. Panels and Talks
Light Sculpture Panel  with Rockne Krebs, Boyd Mefferd, Otto Piene and Hap Tivey. 
Transparency and Illusion Panel  with Bruce Beasley, Rockne Krebs, Fred Eversley and Yuri Schwebler.
Site Defined Sculpture Panel  with Lloyd Hamrol, Nancy Holt, Rockne Krebs and Mary Miss.

1980 Panelist, "Traditional vs. Non-Traditional Sculpture" School of Architecture, University of Maryland, College Park, MD.

1980 Lecturer, The Atlanta Contemporary Art Center, Atlanta, GA.  

1979 Lecturer and Artist in Residence, Hampshire College, Amherst, MA., “Rockne Krebs: Eleven Years of Collaborations with the Sun.”

1978 10th International Sculpture Conference: S/10: Sculpture Today, 1978, York University, Toronto, Canada, conference catalogue.   Laser Demonstration, Rockne Krebs, The technology of lasers for sculptural use demonstrated with small lasers and illustrated with slides of larger works.

1978 Lecturer,  Art League’s lecture series, Montgomery College, Rockville, MD.

1978 Lecturer, University of Oklahoma, Norman, OK. 

1977 Lecturer,  "Art & Philosophy Department presents two illustrated lectures by Rockne Krebs"  Miami-Dade Community College, Miami, FL. 

1977 Lecturer, “Rockne Krebs will discuss his public art sculpture, Sun DogSun Dog is the only work of art ever commissioned by the National Endowment for the Arts. It was installed at the John F. Kennedy Space Center, Cape Canaveral, FL. for the U.S. Bicentennial Exposition of Science and Technology.” Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, DC.

1977 Lecturer and Instructor, “Art in Public Places.”  The Smithsonian Institution Associates Resident Program, Washington, DC.

1977 Lecturer, Oberlin College, Department of Art, Oberlin, OH.

1976 Panelist, Monumental Sculpture Today: Art and Technology – The Future Was Yesterday. Ninth International Sculpture Conference, New Orleans, LA. Panel was televised by WYES-TV. (Transcript of Krebs’ talk available.)

1976 Lecturer, Canis Major and Atlantis by Rockne Krebs, The Omni International, Atlanta, GA.

1975 Lecturer, National Sculpture Center, Kansas University, KS. 

1975 Lecturer, Atlanta College of Art, Atlanta, GA.

1974 Lecturer, Summer “SIX” 1974, Skidmore College, Saratoga Springs, NY.

1972 Lecturer, Art, Technology and Environmental Sculpture Symposium, Rockne Krebs: Art and Technology – The Artist in the Environment, Lehigh University, Bethlehem, PA. 

1971 Speaker and Advisory Committee, Light and the Visual Arts symposium, American Association for the Advancement of Science, Washington, DC.

1971 Lecturer and Visiting Artist, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN. 

1970 The Sixth National Sculpture Conference, 1970, conference catalogue, National Sculpture Center, the University of Kansas, Lawrence, KS. Edited by Elden C. Tefft, published 1971. Catalogue has published transcript of Krebs’ lecture at the conference.

1970 Lecturer, Visiting Artists and Scholars, Atlanta School of Art, Atlanta, GA. 

1969 Lecturer, Visual Artist with the LACMA Art and Technology Program, Hewlett-Packard, Palo Alto, CA.

1968 Presentation and Discussion, The Washington Gallery of Modern Art, Washington, DC,
Sculpture Minus Object: Non-Physical Structures Created by the Laser Beam.

1968 Lecturer, Visual Artist Lecture Series, Drexel Institute of Technology, Philadelphia, PA.

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