On a sunny day, make your way to the Hyde Street Triangle Park where North, Hyde, and School Streets intersect in Burlington. Stand under the nine-foot-tall steel and glass structure and your reward will be a dazzling display of light and color.
Chris Sharp’s bronze sculpture of Big Joe Burrell was unveiled on the Top Block of Burlington’s Church Street on the opening night of the 27th Annual Discover Jazz Festival, June 4, 2010.
Jim Sardonis’ 2009 piece commissioned by Champlain College commemorates the 400th anniversary of the French explorer’s arrival in the Lake Champlain region.
Physicality, deliberation, and repetition characterize the sculpture of R. Elliott Katz. His work depicts the natural world in tension with the needs of people, and juxtaposes the finely crafted object with down-home subject matter and materials. Nonument to the Paysage presents an unremarkable rural scene in monumental form.
Growing up in the hills of Vermont, Kate Pond’s first sculptures were of cattle bones, clay or fallen branches found in the woods near home. She now works exclusively in steel. Her sculptures invite participation: with people, with sun, shadows and alignments at different seasons of the year. The position of the sun, moon and stars creates a structure, like a painter might use a rectangle as a frame of reference. Pond’s recent public work includes Come Light, Visit Me at Champlain College in Burlington, VT, and Wellspring at the Heller School at Brandeis University near Boston, MA.
