January 24, 2010

Freedom Rock E-mail
Former teenager Bubba Sorensen paints patriotic art on a boulder in Iowa. See his work and visit his websites.

January 16, 2010

Jolly Green Giant Has a Chair!
One of the more interesting sculptures to be exhibited are the huge chairs and table that were set upon a bridge. 28' x 30' x 20' (8.5m x 9.1m x 6m) Created by artist Sarah Grant, the sculpture sat on the bridge for several weeks during Art Prize.

January 3, 2010

As reported earlier, IAD visited Art Prize in Grand Rapids, Michigan in 2009 and took hundreds of pictures. Following are two pieces that were exhibited during the event.

Michael Westra
The first sculpture covered today was exhibited on a bridge in Grand Rapids. The sculpture on the left was created by Michael Westra, a Michigan artist.

Terrence Karpowicz
Terrence Karpowicz was born in 1948 in Cleveland, OH and received a B.A. in fine arts from Albion College. Karpowicz moved to NYC to pursue his career as an artist.

December 31, 2009

The World's Best Kept Secret
Located on 132 acres just outside of Grand Rapids, Michigan is the world's best kept secret- The Frederik Meijer Gardens & Sculpture Park. The author of 1,000 Places to See Before You Die, Patricia Schultz, ranks Meijer Gardens thirteenth among museums including the Guggenheim, Museum of Modern Art, Van Gogh Museum, and the Getty Center...

Lena's Garden, a ceiling sculpture by Dale Chihuly
Dale Chihuly (b. 1941) was first introduced to glass while studying interior design at the University of Washington. He continued his studies at Rhode Island School of Design, where he later established the glass program and taught for more than a decade. Through the Fulbright Fellowship, Chihuly studied in Venice, Italy, which exposed him to the team approach to glass blowing...

Leonardo DaVinci's Horse Sculpture Recreated
Leonaro's unfinished horse sculpture was destroyed in 1499 by invading French forces and all we have are the sketches and measurements. Artist Nina Kamu created the sculpture to his grand proportions and named it The American Horse (below). Meijer purchased the sculpture and hoped that the work would inspire the imagination of visitors and celebrate centuries of creativity dating from Leonardo's unfinished sculpture...

December 30, 2009

Kinetic Artist Ned Kahn
Kahn graduated from college with an environmental studies degree, and from 1982 to 1996 he designed educational exhibits at the Exploratorium in San Francisco. He apprenticed there to Frank Oppenheimer, the center's founder and brother of atomic physicist J. Robert Oppenheimer...

World's Largest Ceramic Sculpture
The Spanish group OHL has been commissioned to create the largest ceramic sculpture in the world at the Oran Convention Center in Algeria. The sculpture will be 19,685 x 11,614 ft. in size and includes ceramic tiles of various sizes...