The Waco Cultural Arts Fest works to increase access to the arts for each of the city’s nearly quarter of a million residents through projects including the Waco National Outdoor Sculpture Invitational. Each year the sculpture invitational brings a renowned artist to Waco to create and install new artwork, which remains on view in the city for at least 22 months.
The Waco Cultural Arts Fest in Waco, Texas,was awarded an FY 2010 NEA Access to Artistic Excellence grant of $25,000 to support the commission of a new work by sculpture artist Patrick Dougherty.
The yearlong project includes site visits by the artist and local team members to the three sites along the Brazos River at which the sapling sculptures will be installed. Project activities also will include public lecture-demonstrations by the artist onsite at Baylor University, McLennan Community College, a community blog, videotaping and broadcast of the project on the city’s public broadcast system, and lots of hands-on help from local students, community organizations, and two paid assistants.
Check out the site of Patrick here.
