Sculpture Tour Eau Claire Announces 2016-2017 Season

 

EAU CLAIRE, Wis. – Sculpture Tour Eau Claire (STEC) celebrates the start of the 2016 -2017 season on May 4, 2016. This will be the sixth season.  

 

With support from The City of Eau Claire, Classic Moving & Storage and Northwest Enterprise, Inc. (NWE), sculptures will be installed this Wednesday.  Volunteer crews and artists will begin at 5 a.m. on Barstow Street.

 

Thirty-four sculptures will be installed on May 4th, and be part of this season’s sculpture tour. Thirty-two artists are participating. They come from Canada and 17 different states that include California, Wyoming, Montana, Iowa, Arizona, Connecticut.

 

“Eau Claire is fabulous for artists,” says 2015-2016 People’s Choice winner Dale Lewis. “I live in the Twin Cities area and there’s nothing that compares to what Eau Claire has brought and does for artists.” Mr. Lewis is returning this year with a sculpture called “Sasquatch”.

 

Sculptures will be on public display for 11 months on S. Barstow, N. Barstow, Water Street and Mayo campus totaling 6.25 miles.  Community businesses, City BID boards and philanthropists sponsor sculpture sites, donate products and provide additional financial and volunteer support to Sculpture Tour, a 501(c)3 non-profit.

 

Sculptures are on loan by the artist, and available for sale. Sculptures are priced by the artists. Prices vary and range from $1,850 to $66,000.

 

“This year’s selection reflects our community’s vibrancy and diversity,” says Michelle Koehn, Executive Director. “Sculpture Tour is a distinct public arts collaboration. Local business owners, cultural and city partners, volunteers and families all bring very unique talents and resources to support our participating artists and elevate The Arts within our community.”

 

Sculpture Tour Eau Claire 2016 – 2017 Season

 

Sculpture Name	Price	Artist Name	Location
Stretch	$10,500.00	Ben Hammond	American Fork, UT
For the Love of the Game	$66,000.00	Bobbie Carlyle	Loveland, CO
Advancing the Line	$9,000.00	Benjamin Victor	Boise, ID
Leviathan	$6,995.00	Chris Gustafson	St. Cloud, MN
The Archer	$4,000.00	Chris Kilbane	Esko, MN
Fawned Memories	$11,000.00	Christine Knapp	Lyons, CO
Harp	$12,000.00	Crysten Nesseth	Cameron, WI
Seahorse	10,000	Crysten Nesseth	Cameron, WI
Sasquatch	$18,000.00	Dale Lewis	Hastings, MN
Maelstrom	$4,800	Dave Riemer	Wausaukee, WI
Kaleidoscope	$4,800	Dave Riemer	Wausaukee, WI
Evolution	$5,700.00	Deb Zelenak	Lander, WY
Arab Colt	$17,000.00	Eric Thorsen	Big Fork, MT
Farm Fireball	$1,850.00	Eva Aspilin	Audubon, MN
Steel Ruin	$6,000.00	Gregory Mendez	Fort Wayne, IN
Otter Woman	$8,500.00	Jerry McKeller	Colville, WA
Rainmaker	$9,000.00	Josie Campbell Dellenbaugh	Glastonbury, CT
Sit and Relax	$1,995.00	Kaye Luetke	Maiden Rock, WI
Iterrelation	$3,000.00	Kevin Kalmon	Eau Claire, WI
Serengeti	$21,000.00	Lawrence Starck	Loveland, CO
La Familia	$7,500.00	Mark Blaskey & Mel Sundby	Altoona, WI
Ruin	$12,000.00	Neil Wiffill	Fort Wayne, IN
Stand up for the King	$6,000.00	Neil Wiffill	Fort Wayne, IN
Book of Life	$14,000.00	Osamede Obazee	Concord, CA
Corkscrew	$15,000.00	Patricia Vader	Martinez, CA
Dawn	$40,000.00	Paul Granlund	(deceased)
I've Been Kissed on a Lily Pad	$8,000.00	Pokey Park	Tucson, AZ
Oxymoron	$4,700.00	Pokey Park	Tucson, AZ
Like a Tree Rooted in the Earth	$6,600.00	Richards Poey	Eden Prairie, MN
What the Nose Knows	$9,000.00	Ronald Simmer	Canada
Gossip	$15,000.00	Shohini Ghosh	Highlands Ranch, CO
Fowl Play	$3,000.00	Tim Adams	Webster City, IA
Dystopia	$3,700.00	Tim James & Aiden Demarais	Good Thunder, MN
Portal	$8,000.00	Tommy Riefe	Cedar Falls, IA