Public Art - Springfield, Missouri
2021-2022 Collection for Sculpture Walk Springfield
May 2021 - May 2022
Thank you to everyone on the Selection Committee and who continue to work to generate, fund, broaden, and maintain this city-wide sculpture walk in Springfield, Missouri. I am excited to be a part of the 2021-2022 Collection for Sculpture Walk Springfield. My series of blue sculptures that were first installed in Houston, Texas at the Houston Heights sculpture series True North 2020 will be traveling to Missouri soon.
image: Kolanowski Studio
Forces of Nature: Blue Skies, Slinkys, and Hurricanes, 2020
Dimensions: three sculptures with the largest 18in x 72in x 72in
Media: steel, blue PEX tubing, hardware, and artificial grass
Inspired by diagrams of hurricane development and the spring movement of the “wonderful toy” Slinky (as the longest-running jingle in advertising history so memorably describes it), this delightful installation features three circular forms that appear to be large Slinkys connected at the ends into rings and circling perfectly-maintained “lawns” of artificial grass.
Reminiscent of inner tubes easing down a lazy river or bean bags in a living room, these sculptures provide playful, unusual benches with calm grassy centers at the eye of each storm.
Sculpture Walk Springfield
https://sculpturewalkspringfield.org/
A museum without walls with access to all is our vision. Our mission is "to enhance the quality of life and to promote economic vitality through the artistic transformation of Springfield with outdoor sculpture." Public art has proven itself to play a major role in rejuvenating public spaces and local economies in places as diverse as Chicago, Illinois and Asheville, North Carolina. Sculpture Walk Springfield is an initiative aimed at creating such a museum, by displaying quality sculptures in public places in Springfield on an annually rotating schedule. Each collection of sculptures will be in place from April to February of the next year. Purpose When placed outdoors, integrated…