Musem wins prize for glass exhibit

The Rockford Art Museum announced that Mayor Lawerence J. Morrissey awarded the 2007 Mayor’s Art Award for Most Creative Cultural Event of the year to RAM for its presentation of He & She: Vallien and Hydman-Vallien. The extraordinary exhibit of 126 glass sculptures, installations and paintings by world-renowned artists Ulrica Hydman-Vallien and Bertil Vallien of Sweden, marked their first combined exhibition of this magnitude in North America. The exhibit was on display from March 30 through July 8.