Robert T. Webb Sculpture Garden

Robert T. Webb Sculpture Garden

William Wareham's monumental painted steel sculpture "Duende" (2003) is sited in a magnolia grove at the entrance to the Robert T. Webb Sculpture Garden. The work was installed in October 2010 to mark the opening of the sculpture garden.
Type Admission Free Public Art Space
Location 520 West Waugh Street, Dalton, Whitfield County, Georgia, United States
Coordinates 34°46′33″N 84°58′36″W / 34.7759°N 84.97665°W / 34.7759; -84.97665Coordinates: 34°46′33″N 84°58′36″W / 34.7759°N 84.97665°W / 34.7759; -84.97665
Area 5 acres (2.0 ha)
Established October 20, 2010 (2010-10-20)
Operated by Creative Arts Guild
Visitors Approximately 10,000 per year
Open All year
Website www.creativeartsguild.org

The Robert T. Webb Sculpture Garden is a 5-acre admission-free, open-air museum and sculpture park located in Dalton, Georgia, near Chattanooga, Tennessee, and is operated by the Creative Arts Guild, the state's oldest multi-disciplinary, community arts organization.[1] The sculpture garden is the first permanent installation of its kind in the state of Georgia[2] The garden features almost 40 outdoor sculptures in three sections of the Guild's property—the Magnolia Crescent, the Rosen Garden and the Founders Garden—that provide an organic setting for the works, including mature trees, shrubs and flowers.[3] The garden includes works by prominent artists such as Isamu Noguchi, Scott Burton, Guy Dill, Jim Wolfe and Ken Macklin.The Creative Arts Guild also maintains an indoor art gallery, which hosts rotating exhibits by local, regional and national artists. The sculpture garden welcomes approximately 10,000 visitors each year and is an educational resource for regional schools.[3]

History

The sculpture garden was launched in October 2010 after local businessperson and arts patron Robert Webb raised funds for the purchase of twelve garden scale and monumental works by U.S. and Canadian artists to complement a vintage Noguchi piece donated by George and Rhenda Spence and five works that had been gifted to the Creative Guild by artists who participated in a 2003 juried exhibition curated by John Raymond Henry[4] Webb worked with Guild executive director Terry Tomasello to grow the garden gradually, adding new work periodically during each subsequent year to maintain public interest while cultivating a sense of a unified whole in the work.[5][6][7][8][9] The garden now features 40 works by artists from the U.S., Canada and Europe.[3]

Robert Webb

Robert Webb is a native of Dalton, Georgia, and a graduate of Emory University, where he launched the school's national literary journal, Lullwater Review [10] and received a Louis Sudler Prize in the Arts. He is a widely published writer and recipient of a 1991 Georgia Council for the Arts individual artist grant in poetry as well as an arts patron and collector of American art. Webb has been honored for his community work by Georgia Trend Magazine, which named him to their annual "Top 40 under 40" list in 2005, and by the Atlanta Falcons, which cited him as a "Community Quarterback" in 2006.[11] Webb is an executive at Mohawk Industries, a Fortune 500 flooring manufacturer, and is a three-time chair of the Creative Arts Guild's board of directors.[4] Webb continues to curate the garden, seeking work from artists, galleries and auction houses. The garden's logo features Webb's signature, rendered as his initials.

On October 6, 2015, Webb was honored by Governor Nathan Deal of Georgia as one of the recipients of the annual Governor's Awards for the Arts and Humanities at the state capitol in Atlanta.[12] [13] [11]

Key works

Webb has stated that the sculpture garden's works were selected to showcase different sculptural forms—carving, casting, assembling and modeling—as well as to create a dialogue between the works.[3] In each section of the garden, key monumental works serve as "anchors" to define the spaces. In the more expansive "Magnolia Crescent," William Wareham's Duende, Ken Macklin's Simoon, Guy Dill's Spreader, Caroline Ramersdorfer's Inner View Deeper, and Kyle Van Lusk's Fallen define the space. The Founder's Garden space is defined by Don Lawler's Seedling, Robert Willms' Trojan Taurus, Verina Baxter's Mr. Wrinkle's Favorite Speedwagon and Jim Wolfe's Wm. Tell. [8] Inner View Deeper and Seedling illustrate the art of stone carving. Both works are hand carved by the artists using traditional as well as power tools. Trojan Taurus is an example of assemblage sculpture, which in this instance involves the welding together of pieces of mild steel.[5][9]

Future

The sculpture garden continues to focus on outreach to non-traditional audiences. The property, with no gates or barriers, is available to the community from dawn to dusk year round and offers Guide by Cell based narration to cell-phone users.[14] The Guild's website now features videos of each sculpture to provide viewers with a more engaging virtual experience. Additional works will become a part of the garden in the years ahead, with a constant goal of maintaining the intimacy of the viewers' experience and successfully integrating new work into the existing collection.[3]

Works permanently sited at the Sculpture Garden

Magnolia Crescent Section

  • "Spreader" (Guy Dill, 1995)
  • "O Positive" (Michelle Goldstrom-Lanning, 2001)
  • "Fallen" (Kyle Van Lusk, 2010)
  • "Domaine" (John Henry, 1994)
  • "Untitled" (Richard Lieberman, 1960s)
  • "Simoon" (Ken Macklin, 1992)
  • "Eté" (Gwen Marcus, 1995)
  • "Honky Tonk" (Ryan McCourt, 1999)
  • "Blue Slide" (Royden Mills, 1990-2005)
  • "Axe" (Frank Morbillo, 2008)
  • "Spartan" (Troy Pillow, 2009)
  • "Split Circle" (Troy Pillow, 2008)
  • "Inner View Deeper" (Caroline Ramersdorfer, 2006-2007)
  • "On Tempo" (Judith Steinberg, 2003)
  • "Saturday Strut" (Judith Steinberg, 2003)
  • "Opening the Shut" (Judith Steinberg, 2003)
  • "Duendé (William Wareham, 2003)
  • "Two By (Version 3)" (Robert Winkler, 2010)

Rosen Garden Section

  • "Mrs. Carter" (Chris Beck, 2009)
  • "Untitled" (Carl Billingsley, 2002)
  • "Two Part Chair" (Scott Burton, 1986)
  • "Roots" (Michael Little, 2002)
  • "Les Trois Soeurs" (Vladimir Montúfar, 1998)
  • "Field Labrador" (Chana Orloff, 1960s)
  • "Untitled (for Dalton)" (Jordan Phelps, 2007)
  • "Rambler" (Kevin Shunn, 2002)

Founders Garden Section

  • "Mr. Wrinkle's Favorite Speedwagon" (Verina Baxter, 2009)
  • "Affirmation" (Jan Chenoweth, 2009)
  • "Seedling" (Don Lawler, 2003-2004)
  • "Ritual Totem" (Aimee Mattila, 2002)
  • "Octetra" (Isamu Noguchi, 1986)
  • "Sun Drop" (Davis Whitfield IV, 2012)
  • "Cut Buckle" (Robert Willms, 2004)
  • "Sleight of Stature" (Robert Willms, 2009-2012)
  • "Trojan Taurus" (Robert Willms, 2006-2013)
  • "Que Sera Sera" (Robert Willms, 2010)
  • "Quien Sera Sera" (Robert Willms, 2011)
  • "Donde Sera Sera" (Robert Willms, 2012)
  • "Wm. Tell" (James Wolfe, 1990)[15]

References

  1. ↑ "The Creative Arts Guild: enriching and expressive cultural experiences". Dalton Daily Citizen News. April 4, 2012. Retrieved November 23, 2013.
  2. ↑ "Arts Guild installs state's first permanent sculpture garden". Dalton Daily Citizen News. October 9, 2010. Retrieved November 23, 2013.
  3. 1 2 3 4 5 Pierce, Susan (June 27, 2013). "Creative Arts Guild marks 50th year with 3rd section of sculpture garden in Dalton, Ga.". Chattanooga Times-Free Press. Retrieved November 23, 2013.
  4. 1 2 "Sculpture garden takes root at Creative Arts Guild.". Dalton Daily Citizen News. October 16, 2010. Retrieved November 23, 2013.
  5. 1 2 "Soul arhitecture reflecting local heritage.". Dalton Daily Citizen News. February 1, 2011. Retrieved November 23, 2013.
  6. ↑ "Work by local artist Beck added to sculpture garden.". Dalton Daily Citizen News. April 15, 2012. Retrieved November 23, 2013.
  7. ↑ "Burton chair added to Guild's Webb Sculpture Garden.". Dalton Daily Citizen News. September 23, 2012. Retrieved November 23, 2013.
  8. 1 2 "Sculpture 'Spreader' joins Arts Guild's outdoor sculpture garden.". Dalton Daily Citizen News. September 15, 2011. Retrieved November 23, 2013.
  9. 1 2 "New outdoor artwork joins Guild's sculpture garden". Dalton Daily Citizen News. July 11, 2011. Retrieved November 23, 2013.
  10. ↑ "The Emory Century: The 1990s". Emory University Magazine. Winter 2000. Retrieved November 23, 2013.
  11. 1 2 "2015 Governor's Award for the Arts and Humanities Program" (PDF). Georgia Council for the Arts. October 6, 2015. Retrieved October 17, 2015.
  12. ↑ "Deal honors contributors to the arts and humanities". Office of the Governor. October 6, 2015. Retrieved October 8, 2015.
  13. ↑ "2015 Governor's Award for the Arts and Humanities Awarded at the State Capitol". Georgia Humanities Council. October 6, 2015. Retrieved October 8, 2015.
  14. ↑ "Sculpture Garden Presence on International Sculpture Center Website". International Sculpture Center. October 9, 2010. Retrieved November 23, 2013.
  15. ↑ "Sculpture Garden". Creative Arts Guild. Retrieved November 23, 2012.

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