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Sculpture Fest 2005 opened on Saturday, September 3rd in Woodstock Vermont on the Sculpture Fest site at 304 Prosper Road, Woodstock, Vermont. The theme this year is "Everything Under the Sun". Saturday, October 29, from 1PM on: Tea and Cookies in the barn and tours of Sculpture Fest, including scavenger hunt for children - unless the storm and rain prevent. If it snows the event will go on... Opening day events included dance performance by FLOCK on the plateua at 4:30. After 7pm, Antoinette Jacobson performed on her amazing fire organ. Samples of Anne Macksoud's film and video documentaries are playing in the Kiln Shed video space. The exhibition continues through foliage season. There was an early Sculpture Fest event in anticipation of the September 3rd opening on Prosper Rd. featuring George Sherwood and Pat Muscik. VINS (Vermont Institute for Natural Science) invited four Sculpture Fest artists to exhibit on the VINS property on Rte. 4 in Quechee, Vermont. Li Shen, Herb Ferris, Mary Mead and Phil Thorne are the featured artists at VINS. The exhibit will opened on Friday July 15. This year's artists are: Featured Artists: George Sherwood and Pat Musick
Works on site from previous years by:
In commemoration of the 200th anniversary of the birth of Hiram Powers in Woodstock, this summer Charlet has extended the installation as "The Unfolding Inspiration of the Muse on the Ottauquechee." Opening reception is Friday, June 17, 4-6:30pm, on the grounds of the Woodstock Historical Society (Left: detail from "Muse on the Ottauquechee.") Peter Davenport, Co-Director of Sculpture Fest, is the one-man landscape force. Along with his duties as curator of the exhibition he aids artists in installing work, clearing sites, creating the signage, keeping everything clear for visitors as well as caring for the grounds throughout the exhibition time. Both Davenports agree that land belongs to all of us and welcome the guests who come to Sculpture Fest each year.
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Director Charlet
Davenport has
worked as an artist in Vermont since 1963. Currently her work in
ceramic sculpture is influenced by many years of acting as Director
of Sculpture Fest. Initially her ourdoor art installations were created
on fibre glass mesh and installed in public spaces (St. Gaudens Historic
National Park, The Rotunda at Dartmouth College Hopkins Center, the
bank of the Hoosic River on Williams College Campus, Slater Mill,
Pawtucket, RI, the TW Wood Art Center and a variety of other public
and semi-public spaces.) Charlet's tenth installation work, "Muse
on the Ottauquechee," a reflection on the work of Hiram Powers,
will be on exhibit at the Dana House, Elm St. Woodstock Vt. for the
summer of 2004. Materials are ceramic, wood and marble.