Everyone — young and old — is invited to help create a large-scale ‘stickwork’ sculpture with artist Patrick Dougherty at the Ithaca Children’s Garden, starting at 9:30 a.m. Friday.
Dougherty, who has created more than 240 plant-based sculptures, delivered a Messenger lecture (video below) and other talks this week on campus. He uses a well-honed technique to bend, interweave and fasten together sticks and tree saplings, with the help of volunteers, to create an intricately woven network of natural materials that evoke images of nests, igloos, urns, cocoons, cones castles and beehives. In 2006 Dougherty, as a Cornell Council for the Arts artist-in-residence, created a complex array of sculptures that resembled primordial huts in Collegetown. (Read more in the Cornell Chronicle.)
The event is free and open to the public. Come on down and try your hand at stickwork.
See also Cornell Chronicle article: Artist tells how he found his calling with ‘stickwork’
