Arts on the Point Moving Ahead
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Arts on the Point Moving Ahead |
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By Theresa Hadley
Arts on the Point, the public sculpture park project on the University campus, has experienced some setbacks in recent months, but hopes to be back on track very soon. Although the project was forced by neighborhood concerns temporarily to halt the installation of various works of art that had been in the planning stages for some time, Professor Tucker reports that a meeting will be held soon with University representatives, local politicians, and representatives from the community to institute a fresh start. To expedite this process, Arts on the Point has engaged Wendy Baring Gould, who has spent her career as an arts educator and community arts activist, to work with neighborhood groups and to implement university-community arts initiatives, particularly in Savin Hill and Harbor Point. These initiatives, when implemented, will bring the University and its neighbors closer together and will allow all parties to focus on a common goal: the realization of Arts on the Point and the creation of educational programs that will enhance the public's experience of the sculpture park, free of charge and accessible to all.
There are exciting plans on the horizon for Arts on the Point. Five sculptures are awaiting installation on campus. The first is a ten-foot bronze called Reclining Figure by the great Abstract Expressionist Willem deKooning, which is offered to us by the deKooning estate. It is from the series that produced Standing Figure, a sculpture that is at the entrance of the West Wing of the Museum of Fine Arts here in Boston. The second is Dennis Oppenheim's Searchburst, a UFO-like structure which will be suspended as if flying through the columns of the Healey Library building. Gillian Jagger, a New York artist, is creating an installation of huge tree trunks that will be erected in front of the small pump house next to the Kennedy Library property. Ursula von Rydingsvard is constructing an immense cedar structure, tentatively called Large Bowl with Mechanic, to overlook the ocean on the Quincy Bay side of the perimeter road. Finally, Stinger by Tony Smith sits in a warehouse awaiting the repairs to the footings that were vandalized last May, after which it will assume its position at the end of the line of trees along the Dorchester Bay side of the perimeter road. Visit the web site, artsonthepoint.com for more extensive information about the sculpture park and the works that are currently on exhibit.