The Walking Art Project is now in place at Spectrum Health Butterworth Lobby. Stop by for a preview.
ArtPrize 2014 officially starts on Wednesday, September 24 and runs through Sunday October 12. I will be available during the normal ArtPrize hours:
Here are a couple of would-be models for The Walking Art Project.
Clever and good looking. They must take after their grandfather.
All 25 pieces of the Walking Art Project are shown here assembled together for the first time in my basement. I couldn’t get a decent panorama photo, so this will have to do for now.
Later this month (September 24) it will be assembled in the lobby of Spectrum Health – Butterworth Hospital. The floor to ceiling windows at the venue should make for spectacular viewing.
This black walnut shillelagh is carved with a double auger twist.
** Brand NEW Style**
This Maple cane is carved with a double-twist “auger” pattern.
The Walking Art Project is multi-piece exhibit as part of Grand Rapids, Michigan's ArtPrize® 2014 completion. It is comprised of 25 walking sticks and canes, each of which is both functional and a work of art. Created as a tribute to the men and women of the US Armed Forces who were disabled in the course of their service, it represents the journey back to wholeness both physically and spiritually.
This extra long, maple walking stick is carved into a double twist reminiscent of twisted wrought iron.
This loop-handled, double-twist cane is carved from white oak. (Similar to WAP #11)
This candy stripe style cane has alternating stripes of three distinct woods: maple, purpleheart, and bloodheart.
This flattened, loop-handled cane with a double twist is carved from hickory wood.
This beechwood, walking staff has two woodspirits carved into a buck-rub above a single-twist shaft.
This loop-handled, single-twist cane is carved from white oak.
A BIG thank you, btw, to Gary Foote of Woodcraft of Grand Rapids for providing the stands for The Walking Art Project.
http://www.woodcraft.com/stores/store.aspx?id=550
This found-wood, beechwood cane has a carved American Indian woodspirit above a single-twist shaft.
This cane has walnut outer and maple inner layers carved into a checkerboard, double twist. (Inverse of WAP #1)
This loop-handled, double-twist cane is carved from aged cherry.
This poplar cane is stained a rich dark walnut and carved with an elegant twist.
Three woodspirits are carved into a buck rub of this natural beech walking staff.
