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Welcome to Sculpture Fields!

Sculpture Fields at Montague Park is 33 acres of land dedicated to sculpture.

What is sculpture?

Can you think of a sculpture you made in art class?

Look around you! All of the artists that made the sculptures you see were once your age and now look what they create!

Draw it here:

Sculpture Fields is a welcoming place for people to enjoy the land and the art, incorporating walkingpaths and areas that encourage recreational activity.

Some fun facts about Sculpture Fields:

• ___ Sculptures• A great place to fly kites• Dog Friendly• Has a commemorative forrest• Is still expanding - 2 more phases!• Built on a brown field!

A Sculpture Park! What is a Brown Field?

A brown field means that it was once a land fill! In the 1940’s the city of Chattanooga used this spot as a place to keep your trash. Can you imagine what is below your feet? Hot dogs? Tin cans? Radios?

Can you think of any other things that might be in the landfill?

Now, thanks to the city, it’s been “capped” and is ready for ART!

Roger Colombik

“Some Waves Spark Stone” Steel, Bronze, Aluminum

Narratives in Art!

What do you see?

This sculpture hints at a voyage of some sort. Where is the boat going? Who is piloting it? What is their journey?

Can you think of a story to go along with the sculpture?

From the Artist:

“Working primarily in metal (cast and fab-ricated) the sculptures are often narrative, conveying fragments of a story that swims between fictions and truths.” - Roger Colom-bik

Verina Baxter

“Captain Merkel’s Ramming Dragon” Powder Coated Stainless Steel and Aluminum

Whimsy in Art!

How does the title relate to the piece?

Draw what your “Ramming Dragon” might look like.

Tid bit: Verina Baxter was a Chattanooga resident. She often attached wheels to her large sculptures to show movement. People describes these works as “whimsical”.

Mark diSuvero

“Swizzle”Fabricated Steel

Imagination in Art!I Spy: What shapes do you see in the sculp-ture? (Hint: I see an eight)

What kind of materials did the artist use? What do they remind you of?

Tid Bit: Mark diSuvero creates monumental works that bring attention to scale in the sur-rounding landscapes and urban settings.

From the Artist: “So this idea of metaphor and poetry is much more essential to human understanding and that’s when the real work is happening---when the imagination of one of these steel parts wants to be part of the other one.”

Jesús Moroles

“Granite Windows”Steel, Granite, and Concrete

Movement in Art!

Walk around the sculpture and look thru the windows. What do you see?

From the artist: ““My work is a discussion of how man exists in nature and touches nature and uses nature.”

Think about what the artist said above Why do you think the artist put windows in this sculpture?

Tid bit: The sculpture is MOVEABLE! The win-dows offer changing views when it is rotated.

Peter Lundberg

“Anchors”Concrete and Steel

Process in ArtWhat makes this piece different from the other sculptures? Can you describe the material and the way it looks?

“Anchors” is 71 feet tall. Try to imagine how many kids in your school would it take to reach it’s height?

Tid bit: The artist dug a shape into the ground to make the work. He poured concrete into the hole and then when the concrete dried, they used a crane to make it stand upright. This process is called “cast-ing”.

Can you imagine what that hole looked like?

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