Installing the Spouting Frogs and Turtle at Shrewsbury, NJ

Video showing the ongoing installation and tweaking of the water features at the Grove at Shrewsbury. See the March 29, 2012 post for more photos and information about this project.

 

Washoe Installation and Dedication

Sculpture honoring Washoe, the first non human to communicate in American Sign Language, to be dedicated Sept. 22, 2012

Link to story in the Ellensburg Daily record:
http://www.dailyrecordnews.com/news/friendship-park-celebration-on-saturday/article_6b63b16a-028e-11e2-97ff-0019bb2963f4.html#.UFspyMIZ6wA.email

Big Night at Woodland Park Zoo Auction

Seattle is home to the Woodland Park Zoo, a leader in wildlife and habitat conservation and science education. Georgia has been a long time supporter and has donated to the annual fund raising "Jungle Party" for many years. This year's auction lit up when an electrifying bidding war broke out for her sculpture "Snow Hare". When the smoke cleared the winning bid had reached $26,000. A wonderful contribution for the Zoo. They have a great Website: www.zoo.org

Stumbley Ducklings Installed in Oak Harbor

We installed Georgia's latest Public Art in Oak Harbor last week. It was the conclusion of a long and interesting selection process, and it was great to finally see it on site. Here is a link to an article in the Oak Harbor Newspaper that gives the story:


http://www.southwhidbeyrecord.com/community/162778316.html

Our forklift for the day.
Volunteer/friend Kelly Lindsay and our
Foundry Manager Virginia Keck,with help from City employees
Joe and Cac.

Kelly keeping things clean as we bored the installation holes. The City was concerned about the run-off of the slurry debris clouding up nearby salmon habitat.

The inspector kept a close watch.

The crew with the completed installation.














The view as drivers pass by on the one-way street - the newly renovated
Pioneer Way.

Otter Bench Completed

See April 18 Post for the Full Story

 

 

 

Rabbit Bench Completed

This is the second in a series of three benches

(see previous post below)

 

 

Bench/Sculpture - Take an Artful Load Off

Late last year an admirer of Georgia's work asked if she would consider designing a bronze bench. Georgia agreed to explore the idea, so long as she could integrate her artistic style and love of natural forms. The first maquette was so charming, she kept going and produced three different possibilities. Our patron loved all three, and so the arduous process of turning three small clay models into large functional bronze sculptures began.

The first step was to have the models digitally scanned and enlarged into foam replicas at the correct scale. This took some back and forth with the enlargement folks, Additive Workshop of Wilsonville, Oregon, as we tried to arrive at the best overall size for each bench. Once the foam enlargements were cut out, Georgia and our long-time friend/neighbor/employee Suzanne Schlicke covered them with about 1/4" of clay and then Georgia re-sculpted the entire surface to achieve the desired detail.

We delivered the finished full sized sculptures to our foundry partner, Reinmuth Bronze, in Eugene, Oregon, who spent the next month or so making incredible rubber molds of the the individual benches. The relative simplicity of the flowing forms suggested that they could be poured as a single wax, which would help preserve the integrity of the form as opposed to painting the wax into multiple mold sections. The wax copies were then cut into individual cast-able sized pieces, and the resulting bronze sections were fabricated together to produce the completed sculpture.

The first completed bench shipped out last Monday, with the others hopefully following in about three week intervals. Our grateful and appreciative thanks to everyone involved in this project.