SCULPTOR LENDS ART TO CITY OF LAMPASAS |
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March 10, 2007 - Lampasas, TX - Lampasas Association for the Arts (LAFTA) president Nancy Gray announced yesterday that Jim Huntington, a well-known artist who has shown widely in New York, Boston, and San Francisco, will lend a large steel and granite abstract sculpture to the City of Lampasas. This loan will be delivered to W.M. Brook Park on Thursday, March 15, at around 1:00 p.m. The public is invited to watch the sculpture installation. The loan, which was orchestrated by LAFTA, will replace “Duet” by David Hickman, which was displayed near the Visitors Center in the Park for over one year. Huntington’s sculpture will remain on site for a period of one year. Volunteers will help with transport and set-up. The sculpture will be brought to the site from Coupland, Texas, where Huntington has his home and studio now. LAFTA board members visited the site last year to talk to the artist and visit the sculpture garden he has on site. There they were able to see and explore Huntington’s large-scale outdoor work and were impressed. Some sculptures, including the one that will come to Lampasas, invite the viewer to walk into them. Huntington has written, “Many times I feel the essential energy that brings a sculpture into being flows not from me but through me. I accept a lot on faith: the faith that this endeavor is basic and necessary to the greater human enterprise: that art can be a repository of ineffable spiritual values.” Come experience this on Thursday, March 15, as Huntington directs the placement of this very generous loan to the City of Lampasas.
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