2010-04-23 / Front Page

LAFTA to unveil sculptures

Lampasas Association for the Arts will hold its annual Art in the Park event Saturday from 2-4:30 p.m. at the Hanna Springs Sculpture Garden in Campbell Park. New sculptures by four artists -- Joe Barrington, Jerry Dodd, Larry Hullum and Michelle O’Michael -- will be unveiled. Visitors may meet the artists, enjoy appetizers and beverages, and bid on works of art donated by well-known Texas artists.

Tickets are $35 each and are available at Hodges & Sargent Pharmacy, Garner Insurance, Old Town Antiques and Gray Custom Framing. Proceeds benefit Lampasas Association for the Arts, a nonprofit organization.

Those familiar with the Hanna Springs Sculpture Garden will know Joe Barrington’s work. His sculpture “Red Heron” was part of Art in the Park 2008. Barrington, who lives and works in Throckmorton, will contribute “Been Fish’en’ to Art in the Park 2010.

Dodd lives and works in Commerce. A retired professor of art at Texas A&M University Commerce, his sculpture “Tether,” will be part of Art in the Park 2010.

Hullum works at Texas Carved Stone in Florence. He was commissioned to create “Agave,” which will serve as the fountainhead in the planned breezeway park on Courtyard Square in downtown Lampasas.

Hullum’s sculpture for Art in the Park is “Lampasas Lily.”

Michelle O’Michael is a Houston-based sculptor. Her contribution to Art in the Park 2010 is “Enchanter.”

In addition to the new sculptures, Reven Swanson of Denver, Colo., is lending her sculpture from Art in the Park 2004, “Aspens and Moon,” for another year.

“Art in the Park 2010 promises to be an exciting, entertaining and educational experience,” said a LAFTA spokesman.

In case of inclement weather, the reception will be moved to the Hancock Park pavilion by the Lampasas Municipal Golf Course.

For more information, phone 556-6997 or visit www.lafta.org.

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