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Current Exhibitions

MADISON--What Hollycroft has managed to do in Madison is amazing. Despite some early efforts to censor or undermine the exhibition (not uncommon with innovative art projects), thousands of townspeople and tourists have experienced a unique museum-quality exhibition by some of America's most important sculptors. People who would not take the time to travel to a museum to look at art have experienced a major permanent (annually refreshed) exhibition where "touching" is encouraged and there are no intimidating guards to chase away curious children.


In Madison, students from Spain surround "Wizard's Watch" by Anthony Padovano.


Fiberglass "Airplane V" by Jean Paul Jacquet is perched above a Middletown art gallery.

MIDDLETOWN--THE MILE at Middletown stretches between two church spires on the city's Main Street, from Church Street to Hartford Avenue. It is surely one of the most uniquely diversified main thoroughfares in the United States! The street's diversity ranges from a half-dozen banks, a score of restaurants featuring cuisines from around the world, a police station housed in a recreated Victorian building, a first-rate hotel, shops ranging from ethnic grocery stores to custom tailoring--and it is all peppered with 44 pieces of contemporary sculpture. Based on the same principle that brought such astounding successes to the Madison MILE, the Middletown MILE features extraordinary works ranging from contemporary commentary in the form of Will Harrington's "Saddam's Sedan" to Denise Drever's "Octopus," which summons Middletown's Colonial and seafaring history. The random placement of sculptures has been enthusiastically received and, happily, poses no cost to taxpayers.

TOURS--Free, docent-led tours of THE SCULPTURE MILE at Madison are available every Saturday at 11 a.m. from April to November, leaving from the pavilion near the Stop & Shop parking area. Group tours can be arranged by telephoning (203).421.0264. The Middletown organization Downtown Business District sponsors daily tours of THE SCULPTURE MILE at Middletown seasonally. Visitors may get details from the Tourist Department at the Chamber of Commerce at 393 Main Street, next to the Holy Trinity Church (860).347.6924.


THE SCULPTURE MILE
America's Premier Outdoor Sculpture Exhibition
Below is a list of the sculptors who have together exhibited more than 300 works in Hollycroft Foundation exhibitions.

  Acheson
Albert
Alexander
Alfen
Bailey
Bando
Bleifeld
Boyajian
Brownstein
Burt
Buxton
Campbell
Carlson
Caudle
Chamberlain
Chandler
Choi
Curtis
Davidson
J. Davis
DeCola
Devaney
Doyle
Drever
Eastman
Evans
Fink
Flores
Fonte
Friedman
Fuchs
Gaddy
Gale
Gallucci
  Geswaldi
Gill
Gillen
Glasson
Godowsky
Good
Gordon
Grausman
Griswold
Gyampo
Guttin
Hadzi
Hall
Halligan
Hamburger
Harrington
Hauer
Hayes
Heinrich
Hepburn
Higashida
Hudson
Jacquet
Jensen
W. Johnson
J.S. Johnson
Jon
Kalish
Keltner
Kent
Keropian
Ketchman

  Kirk
Klemperer
Kohlmeyer
Kussow
Laxman
Lehman
Levy
LeWitt
Logan
Lorenz
MacDonald
MacLeod
Mahon
Manson
Mark
Martin
Matt
McCarthy
Meadmore
Meigs
Meyer
Millen
Morrill
Motes
Neglia
Nickford
Offner
Padovano
Pei
Potter
Ressler
Rickey

  Risley
Russell
Saganic
Saiia
Salews
Shankles
Shapiro
Sher
Simon
Sindorf
Smalley
P. Smith
Solomon
B. Steinberg
J. Steinberg
Stewart
Swearer
Theel
von Ringelheim
Vose
Walsh
Warren
Waterman
Watson
Weinberg
Weiss
Wendler
Wiehl
Wiener
W. Wood
Woodham
Young
Ziemann
Ziner
 


Explaining the Exhibition Program

Placement: Throughout a mile of downtown Madison and down the Main Street of Middletown.

Selection: Artists should submit photographs and biographies to The Hollycroft Foundation, which through an anonymous committee chooses works of quality appropriate for a public setting by professional artists.

Why an anonymous committee? Many selection juries for exhibitions and awards are by choice unnamed (i.e. Fulbright and MacArthur Foundations). Undue pressure is avoided, and honesty is assured.

Realistic/Abstract: Quality is the first criteria of selection, but a balance between the disciplines is attempted, although the border line is often blurred.

Qualifications: The artists are living sculptors. Some were not born in this country, but by living, working, and exhibiting in the United States are considered in the art world as American. Most of the sculptors are mature, fully developed artists, nationally known and nationally exhibited. However, talented emerging artists are of particular interest to the committee.

Funding: The Hollycroft Foundation is a non-endowed 501(c)(3) organization that supports its programs through donations, grants, and partially through exhibition catalogue advertisements.

THESE EXHIBITIONS DEPEND ON GENEROSITY.
The artists LOAN their works.
Private property owners LOAN their sites.
The public is provided a FREE exhibition.
The docents and volunteers work without compensation.


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