The National Bronze Sculpture Symposium & Trail project produced an engaging two-week educational symposium with a dramatic live pour for hundreds of viewers at a "standing room only" event in 2013. The final castings created an accessible sculpture trail of enduring art for the public good, installed in four locations in downtown Yellow Springs, OH, home of Antioch College. Coordinated by Joanne Caputo as Project Manager for the Yellow Springs Arts Council, the project employed 51 artists and demonstrated the full evolution of a far-reaching arts and cultural community partnership. The sculpture trail's featured bronze artists, selected through a national call and jury process, include: Susan Byrnes (Cincinnati, OH), D’jean Jawrunner (Tucumcari, NM), and John Weidman (Brookline, NH), plus invited artist Brian Maughan of Yellow Springs.
Educational outreach efforts served nearly 200 additional local students with a Project Based Learning (PBL) unit, allowing them to examine the role of public art and collaborate to produce their own public art installation with castings from a tandem aluminum pour, which they witnessed live (above photo). Art students from the Dayton STEM School also participated, and an additional partnership agreement with the City of Kettering facilitated an aluminum pour for their students as well.
"The entire two weeks were successful beyond anyone's imagination. Project Manager Joanne Caputo's tireless work, creativity, and insight provided Yellow Springs with an experience rarely available outside academia or a much larger city." – Yellow Springs Community Foundation 2013 Annual Report (March 2014)
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Educational outreach efforts served nearly 200 additional local students with a Project Based Learning (PBL) unit, allowing them to examine the role of public art and collaborate to produce their own public art installation with castings from a tandem aluminum pour, which they witnessed live (above photo). Art students from the Dayton STEM School also participated, and an additional partnership agreement with the City of Kettering facilitated an aluminum pour for their students as well.
"The entire two weeks were successful beyond anyone's imagination. Project Manager Joanne Caputo's tireless work, creativity, and insight provided Yellow Springs with an experience rarely available outside academia or a much larger city." – Yellow Springs Community Foundation 2013 Annual Report (March 2014)
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