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Riverwalk Sculpture Park is born

11/15/2024

Arts Winchester was recently awarded a Town of Winchester Community ARPA grant to build a small sculpture park at the end of Shore Road on the Griffin Museum's property.

Work got underway on October 26, 2024 with an extensive invasive clean-up by town volunteers organized by the Conservation Commission. That work was quickly followed by MC Landscaping leveling the grounds.

On November 5, a crew from Winchester's DPW made moving 16 enormous fieldstone boulders into place easy.  Sculptor Josh Ruder spent the next 5 days sculpting two benches from the stones. He returns on November 20 for the finishing touches.

In parallel, Nevola Irrigation and Lighting has been installing irrigation and wiring for future lighting.  MC Landscaping returned the week of November 12 to install the stone dust pathways and sod.

Board member Cynthia Randall, art consultant, in addition to her contributions throughout, selected two sculptures for installation in the next two months. Stay tuned for updates!

Behind the scene, Elaine Vreeland, Town Conservation Administrator, helped us navigate all the appropriate approvals with the Conservation Commission and then MA Department of Environmental Protection.

Julie Khuen provided for her guidance and expertise with initial landscape design, helping us place stones, envision initial plantings. We can't wait for the plants in the spring!

Ann Storer joined our team as a member of the Conservation Commission but contributed so much more. We could not have done this without her design walk throughs, initial sketches, buckets, tarps, bricks, wetland expertise, construction expertise, and, most importantly, boundless energy!

Our partnership with Crista Dix and the Griffin Museum was critical to the project from idea through execution.

As always, the Arts Winchester is fortunate for its all-volunteer Board who provides art leadership, legal contract negotiation, business and resident input, financial administration, and so much more.

I am so grateful for the teamwork and support from everyone involved and for the encouragement from people just passing by seeing the progress.

Hilda Wong-Doo
Board President

Arts Winchester Inc receives it 501(c)(3) designation

Winchester Open Studios 2024

Riverwalk Sculpture Park is born

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