RiverSculpture!

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RiverSculpture! are public art displays found along the Milwaukee Riverwalk in downtown Milwaukee, Wisconsin. Information kiosks stationed near each presentation offer self-guided walking tours of this annual outdoor exhibition.

[edit] Description

Each year new sculpture pieces are unveiled at the open of RiverSplash!, a three day summer festival held annually along the Milwaukee River. The 2006 exhibition featured 16 unique contemporary sculptures from various artists, which are positioned at locations between Wisconsin Avenue and Juneau Avenue.

1. Up Around the Moon & Back Again by Andrew MacGuffie
2. Limitation Series: Bowls by Paul Sebben
3. Epiphanic Recurve Redux by Bilhenry Walker
4. Laureate by Seymour Lipton
5. Acqua Grylli by Beth Sahagian (permanent display)
6. Pere Jacques Marquette restored by Tom Queoff (permanent display)
7. SS Core by Robert Smart
8. You Rise Above the World by Richard Taylor
9. Trigon by Allen Ditson
10. Victoria by Jim Agard
11. Sol y Sombra by Bernie Carreno
12. Dream with the Fishes for Aurora by Cork Marcheschi
13. Gertie the Duck by Gwendolyn Gillen (permanent display)
14. Artig by Amy Toscani
15. Temple XXIV by Austin Collins
16. Cow and Ballerina by Schomer Lichtner

[edit] External links

• RiverSculpture! 2000
• Beth Sahagian's "Acqua Grylli"
• Story of Gertie the Duck