Arts panel picks new sculptures for downtown
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“Fat Tire No. 4” by Lance Carleton. Location: Main Street on the square.
The Maryville Public Arts Committee has made its 2016 recommendations for new sculpture installations around the courthouse square.
Committee member Diane Sudhoff told the Maryville City Council this week that the municipal public art program will expand somewhat this year with the addition of a fourth artwork in the vicinity of West Fourth and Buchanan streets near the entrance to the new Fourth Street pedestrian corridor.
Completed last summer, the landscaped corridor was designed to provide a physical and aesthetic link tying downtown to the main entrance of Northwest Missouri State University.
For the past two years, MPAC has leased sculptures from noted regional and national artists through SculptureOne, an organization that also administers a similar public art program in Sioux Falls, South Dakota.
In both 2014 and 2015, the three artworks were leased for $2,000 each per year. Last spring the first group of sculptures was exchanged for new works installed on the north, south, and west sides of the courthouse square.
This year, MPAC was able to negotiate a reduced price of $1,500 per sculpture, which will allow it to lease a fourth piece for installation near the east end of the West Fourth Street corridor at no additional cost to the city.
The current city budget provides $7,000 for MPAC and other public art initiatives with a total of $6,000 earmarked for leasing the three sculptures and the remainder set aside for marketing and event promotion.
On Monday, the City Council approved an amended lease agreement providing for a fourth sculpture at no additional cost.
Sudhoff said the new artworks are to be installed over the weekend of May 6-8. They include:
• “Fat Tire No. 4” by Lance Carleton, which will be placed along the Main Street side of the square in front of Carson’s Sports Grille.
• “School’s Out” by Lee Leuning and Sherri Treeby, which will occupy the pedestal in front of Accent Advertising & Signs on Third Street.
• “Embrace” by Serge Mozhnevsky, an abstract work set for installation on the Fourth Street side of the square near the North Side Mall.
MPAC’s first choice for the Fourth Street corridor sculpture is “Cultural Pedestrians” by Sue Quinlan, a semi-abstract work that Sudhoff said is meant to symbolize a shared commitment to diversity and acceptance on the part of both the community and the Northwest campus.
However, the availability of Quinlan’s piece remains uncertain, and so MPAC has selected an alternate work, “Seated Couple,” by South Dakota sculptor Rick Haugen.
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“School’s Out” by Lee Leuning and Sherri Treeby. Location: Third Street on the square.
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“Embrace” by Serge Mozhnevsky. Location: Fourth Street on the square.
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“Cultural Pedestrians” by Sue Quinlan. Location: First choice for a new installation near the east end of the West Fourth Street pedestrian corridor.
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“Seated Couple,” by Rick Haugen. Location: Alternate choice for a new installation near the east end of the West Fourth Street pedestrian corridor.
