Artist Kurt Perschke will speak about the RedBall Project and his other works as part of the NIU Art Museum’s “Museum Without Walls” program.

He will be at NIU at 6 p.m. today at Jack Arends Hall, Room 100.

Perschke has exhibited his work around the world and has spent several years running a non-profit gallery in St. Louis, Mo.

Perschke’s RedBall Project began in 2001 and involves a large object made from more than 530 square feet of PVC fabric, the same fabric used to make inflatable river rafts. The RedBall weighs 250 pounds and stands 15 feet high.

Jo Burke, assistant director of the NIU Art Museum, said Perschke will be in town all week to plan location sites for his RedBall Project.

Burke said they have started a list of potential outside installation sites for Perschke to visit when he tours the town and campus.

Perschke and his RedBall project traveled to Barcelona, Spain, in 2002 and to Providence, R.I., and Sydney, Australia, in 2003.

DeKalb will be a new experience for the RedBall Project because it is a rural/suburban environment, while the other locations have been in urban environments.

Anyone interested in devoting time to work on site installations or suggesting possible locations can attend a focus group meeting after Perschke’s talk tonight, Burke said.

All site installations will be documented for an exhibit called “RedBall Revisited,” which will feature images from all RedBall sites to date and will include the RedBall.

The exhibition will be shown in the NIU Art Gallery in Chicago, 215 W. Superior St., from Sept. 10 through Oct. 23.

For more information, call the NIU Art Museum at 753-1936.