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Sculpture: Conversation with Myself

Conversation With Myself

Gifted by Edie + Summer Michelson Milender

Art Neptune’s steel supplier asked him to create a sculpture that could be a bird feeder, so he created a head with rods coming out of it from which bird feeders could be hung. Through other iterations of this design the idea evolved into Conversation with Myself, a self-portrait, representing the duality of our chaotic and organized brains. Neptune wants for people to look at the work and have it speak for itself, believing it’s not really for him as the artist to tell people how to interpret it. It’s about whatever touches the viewers; what the artist thinks is irrelevant.

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2025 Maccabi Cauldron Sculpture
2025 Tucson JCC Maccabi Games Caldron
Accumulated Rust
Accumulated Rust
Ardenne
Bat Yam (Daughter of the Sea)
Bindings VI
Blue Star
Broken Wedge Form II
Broken Wedge Form II​
Chimineas Planteria Group: Mars
Chimineas Planteria Group: Mars
Chimineas Planteria Group: Mercury
Chimineas Planteria Group: Mercury
Chimineas Planteria Group: Venus
Chimineas Planteria Group: Venus
Clavis Tower
Clavis Tower
Clouds Totem
Clouds Totem
Conversation With Myself
Conversation With Myself
Crane
Crane
Double Vision
Double Vision
Echadoshniam
Echadoshniam
Endless
Endless
Expressions
Forged Identity Sculpture
Forged Identity: Yitzhak Rabin
A Fountain of Gardens
Freedom Fighter
Freedom Fighter
Green Glass Spires
Green Glass Spires
Guardian
Guardian
The Guardian
Guardian of the Sacred Place
Guardian of the Sacred Place
Hamakom yenachem atchem betoch she-ahr" (Comforted among the mourners)
Homenaje Al Colibri​
Homenaje Al Colibri​
In Contemplation of Peace
In Contemplation of Peace
Joy of Life
Joy of Life
Life is a Balancing Act
Life is a Balancing Act
Liza Sculpture
Liza
Mosaic
Mosaic
Mourning Dove Sculpture
Mourning Dove Nesting in Palm Tree
Original Steel Sculpture
Original Steel Sculpture
Pest Control
Pest Control
Prometheus Torso
Reunion Sculpture
Reunion
Sessanta Nova
Sessanta Nova
Signalos
Signalos
Sisyphus
Sisyphus
Spear Bearer Sculpture
Spear Bearer #3
Story of Life
Story of Life
Summer Showers
Summer Showers
Swell
Swell
Tree of Knowledge
Tree of Knowledge
Untitled
Untitled
UTIC II
UTIC II
The Warrior
The Warrior
Welcome
Welcome
Window to Heaven
Window to Heaven
Wrinkled Thought Sculpture
Wrinkled Thought
2025 Maccabi Cauldron Sculpture

2025 Tucson JCC Maccabi Games Caldron

Dedicated in honor of the Tucson J hosting the 2025 JCC Maccabi Games® and Access

 

Barbara Grygutis has been a professional sculptor since the 1970s, creating public art for more than thirty years. Born in Connecticut and raised in Israel, she was deeply influenced by exposure to art, architecture, and the desert landscape, which later drew her to Tucson. Her studies and travels have shaped her vision of art as inseparable from everyday life. Grygutis continues to create sculptural environments that draw on architectural forms, natural patterns, and universal human experience.

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Accumulated Rust

Accumulated Rust

Gifted by Steve Kippur, Billie Maas + Families 

Steven Derks has a lifelong passion for finding and collecting curiosities in thrift stores and junkyards. Many of his sculptures are born in these forgotten piles of bent, rusted metal, where he discovers both inspiration and raw materials. Often, he finds all the parts for multiple sculptures in a single visit, though some pieces may sit in his studio yard for months, awaiting the perfect missing element. Derks embraces the immediacy of welding and imposes a strict rule: he never bends or cuts the metal, responding only to the form as he finds it. His art lies in the assemblage—the intuitive process of bringing found objects together to create something entirely new.

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Ardenne

Ardenne was inspired by a hilly forested region between Belgium, France and Luxembourg, Germany which was the site where the WWII Battle of the Bulge occured. The sculpture represents the fallen souls and seasonal changes that take place over time as mother nature heals the scars to retake what is hers.

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Bat Yam (Daughter of the Sea)

If I was ever facing the question what is my preferred medium of expression, which material I’d like to work with most, I would probably have to answer that I prefer the one that fits my artistic goal best. Every composition demands its own material, just like every event has its own imprint – the artist has to figure it out. When a work of art is conceived and executed in a proper material, it expresses the innermost meaning of the environment. Humans deserve, require attention to their innermost meaning, to their souls. Human feeling of every kind, therefore, is the subject of my keenest interest. Or, rather, shapes, lines, colors and their interplay, reflecting the palette of human feelings, are the subject. In my view, they are also the main subject of art. After all, it’s the feeling that first lifted the human up and above the animal kingdom – ability to understand the feeling of the other, to be compassionate. It’s the propagation and cultivation of these feelings that preserves the human society.

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Bindings VI

Born in Cheyenne, Wyoming, Gary Beals moved to Albuquerque, New Mexico at a young age. He attended the University of New Mexico and continued to live and work in Albuquerque until the end of his life. For many years, Beals was a furniture designer with Knoll International and Litton Industries. These endeavors taught him the discipline required for taking a design from its conceptual stage through the various iterations necessary to develop a successful finished product. Working from sketches and progressing to scale models and finally to the finished sculpture, Beals is renowned for his use of materials, craftsmanship, and clean, abstracted forms. His sculpture is shown and collected throughout the United States.

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Blue Star

Bill Wiener Jr. spent over 50 years practicing architecture before turning his creative focus to sculpture in retirement. Deeply influenced by geometry and repetition, his sculptural works explore the transformation of flat steel into dynamic, three-dimensional forms. Many of his designs begin as late-night sketches, later realized with the help of metal fabricators. He prefers for the art to speak for itself, often avoiding publicity and instead focusing on how his work can quietly shape and connect communities. His pieces now appear in galleries and outdoor spaces, reflecting a lifelong dedication to form, structure, and human connection through art.

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Broken Wedge Form II

Broken Wedge Form II

Frank Morbillo was born in Queens, raised on Long Island, and now lives in Santa Fe, New Mexico. He earned his BFA from Alfred University and his MFA from the University of Montana, with additional study at Stony Brook University. Originally drawn to ceramics, Morbillo shifted to metalwork after discovering its structural potential, leading to a diverse and evolving artistic practice. His sculptures reflect a deep engagement with both urban architecture and the raw forces of the Western landscape. Over time, his materials have expanded to include cast glass and recycled plastic, allowing him to explore environmental concerns through form. Morbillo’s work contrasts smooth fabricated surfaces with organic elements, evoking the dynamic interplay of nature, art, and humanity.

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Chimineas Planteria Group: Mars

Chimineas Planteria Group: Mars

Gifted by Caron Mitchell + Aaron Brown

In 2016, Spencer Edgerton was awarded a Burning Man Honorarium grant to create the Chiminea Planeteria, a plenary system of sculptures. The design of the Planeteria was inspired by the observations and mythical alchemy of ancient astronomers. Mars, for instance, shows the canals originally thought to exist on that planet’s surface. The artwork consists of six massive steel spheres, originally U.S. Navy buoys that held defensive drift nets during World War II, and plasma cut by hand to represent the planets and function as outdoor fire art. Chiminea Planetaria is a social gathering space and forum for spontaneous creativity. Since their debut, the Chimineas have been to several regional events and festivals, often separately or in small groups.

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Chimineas Planteria Group: Mercury

Chimineas Planteria Group: Mercury

Gifted by Caron Mitchell + Aaron Brown

In 2016, Spencer Edgerton was awarded a Burning Man Honorarium grant to create the Chiminea Planeteria, a plenary system of sculptures. The design of the Planeteria was inspired by the observations and mythical alchemy of ancient astronomers. Mars, for instance, shows the canals originally thought to exist on that planet’s surface. The artwork consists of six massive steel spheres, originally U.S. Navy buoys that held defensive drift nets during World War II, and plasma cut by hand to represent the planets and function as outdoor fire art. Chiminea Planetaria is a social gathering space and forum for spontaneous creativity. Since their debut, the Chimineas have been to several regional events and festivals, often separately or in small groups.

Contact Chloe Loos for more information. 

Chimineas Planteria Group: Venus

Chimineas Planteria Group: Venus

Gifted by Caron Mitchell + Aaron Brown

In 2016, Spencer Edgerton was awarded a Burning Man Honorarium grant to create the Chiminea Planeteria, a plenary system of sculptures. The design of the Planeteria was inspired by the observations and mythical alchemy of ancient astronomers. Mars, for instance, shows the canals originally thought to exist on that planet’s surface. The artwork consists of six massive steel spheres, originally U.S. Navy buoys that held defensive drift nets during World War II, and plasma cut by hand to represent the planets and function as outdoor fire art. Chiminea Planetaria is a social gathering space and forum for spontaneous creativity. Since their debut, the Chimineas have been to several regional events and festivals, often separately or in small groups.

Contact Chloe Loos for more information. 

Clavis Tower

Clavis Tower

Gifted by Beth + I. Michael Kasser

There’s no “usual” way that Geist works. Sometimes he has a specific idea in mind, like he did with Clavis Tower. Because most of his work had been linear, he decided to build upwards. Steel comes in lengths of 40 feet, so it’s 40 feet high. Built from a model, the sculpture was created with help from friends and a fabricator using cranes, welding, and a concrete slab. It was engineered to withstand hurricane winds. “Clavis” refers to a key. When you think of an arch, the top stone in the arch that holds everything together is the keystone or Clavis stone. There are metaphors for that–the key that holds everything together–but the sculpture actually functions physically not just metaphorically. I like that. dIt’s not decoration; it’s working.

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Clouds Totem

Clouds Totem

Gifted by the artist

Ted enjoyed sculpting in marble and alabaster and displayed his works in his studio and throughout Tucson. He was a U.S. Army veteran of the Korean Conflict and a proud member of Temple Emanu-El.

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Conversation With Myself

Conversation With Myself

Gifted by Edie + Summer Michelson Milender

Art Neptune’s steel supplier asked him to create a sculpture that could be a bird feeder, so he created a head with rods coming out of it from which bird feeders could be hung. Through other iterations of this design the idea evolved into Conversation with Myself, a self-portrait, representing the duality of our chaotic and organized brains. Neptune wants for people to look at the work and have it speak for itself, believing it’s not really for him as the artist to tell people how to interpret it. It’s about whatever touches the viewers; what the artist thinks is irrelevant.

Contact Chloe Loos for more information. 

Crane

Crane

On loan from the artist

Ira Wiesenfeld, a retired veterinarian, discovered a passion for art, sculpting and blacksmithing years ago. He works in his home workshop. He forges and welds metals and found objects into organic forms. Often the forms are botanical, sometimes animal, and always to showcase the beauty of nature, so that it will be preserved.

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Double Vision

Double Vision

Gifted by Jill + Herschel Rosenzweig in memory of Joan Kaye Cauthorn

This work of art is a memorial sculpture to recognize and remember Joan Kaye, a friend to artists and the arts. Joan’s personality was large and commitment to her community was always first and center. Commissioned by Jill Rosenzweig, the sculpture is designed to exemplify her outward looking vision. Always looking toward the future, her exuberance for living is reflected in this work. This sculpture, created with aluminum and lighting (illuminated from within) speaks to a progressive vision for the future and all the possibilities that are an integral part of our humanity.

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Echadoshniam

Echadoshniam

Gifted by Rohn Eloul + Family

Kosso Eloul (1920-1995) was born in Russia. He was an Israeli sculptor. His work displays a combination between the influence of “Canaanite” art and the abstractionism of the Ofakim Hadashim movement. He won the Dizengoff Prize for Sculpture in 1951.

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Endless

Endless

Endless exemplifies a commitment to fusing gesture, abstraction, and the figure into a single, visceral presence. Cast in bronze yet suspended in motion, the sculpture evokes a moment of eternal becoming—part human, part elemental force. Endless resists static interpretation; its fragmented limbs and charged posture suggest both disintegration and emergence, an embodiment of spirit in flux. The sculpture dances between form and void, capturing the emotional immediacy of a gesture mid-flight. Hertzel’s engagement with the figure never aims for anatomical accuracy but rather seeks the soul within movement, the echo of feeling etched into the material. The piece seems to extend beyond its own limits, inviting the viewer into an active relationship with space and imagination. In Endless, we witness a figure untethered from time, defined by motion and transformation—a testament to Hertzel’s lifelong exploration of the human condition as a living force.

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Expressions

Gifted by Kathy and David Unger

 

Life is full of Expressions!

            Smile, frown, wrinkle your brow,

                        Blow a kiss –

            Laugh, pucker, stick out your tongue,

                        Lick your lips –

Life is full of Expressions!

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Forged Identity Sculpture

Forged Identity: Yitzhak Rabin

Gifted by Jill + Herschel Rosenzweig

Pun. What two meanings of “forged” can you think of? In this sculpture by Martha Durham, the fingerprint is a symbol and reminder of a unique human being, former Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin, and the mark he left on the world.

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A Fountain of Gardens

Robert Russin, Distinguished Professor of Art and University Artist in Residence at the University of Wyoming, was born in New York City and earned both his BA and MA in art from City College of New York. He studied on fellowship at the Beaux Arts Institute of Design and taught at Cooper Union and City College before joining the UW faculty in 1947. Awarded a Ford Foundation Fellowship in 1953, he spent a year in Italy and returned frequently for commissions and creative work. By age 25, Russin had already won two national sculpture competitions and completed major public commissions. He was active in the Sculptors’ Guild, the National Sculpture Society, and served as an advisor to the International Sculpture Conferences.

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Freedom Fighter

Freedom Fighter

Gifted by The Artist + Friends of Luana + Paul Ash 

Freedom Fighter, sculpted by Robert I. Russin, is a heroic-sized bronze inspired by the Jewish resistance to the Nazis in the Warsaw Ghetto. The piece was gifted by the artist and was the first piece installed in the Jill Rosenzweig Memorial Sculpture Garden as part of the J’s permanent collection. Russin and his wife Adele spent winters in Green Valley for over three decades. 

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Green Glass Spires

Green Glass Spires

Sharon Holnback is a multimedia artist and the owner of the Triangle L Ranch in Oracle. The historic ranch dates back to the 1880s and is now operated as a bed and breakfast. Sharon is an accomplished artist and freelance commercial photographer. She incorporates photography, glass, metalwork and painting into her artwork. Her art has been exhibited locally and in Tucson, Phoenix, California, New York, and as far away as Korea, Ireland and Japan. She and 12 other artists created the Desert Sculpture Path at the Triangle L Ranch. This path is a nature/art walk that includes sculptures, installations, and interactive works among the native plants, rock outcroppings and washes.

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Guardian

Guardian

Gifted by the artist

Ted enjoyed sculpting in marble and alabaster and displayed his works in his studio and throughout Tucson. He was a U.S. Army veteran of the Korean Conflict and a proud member of Temple Emanu-El.

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The Guardian

The Guardian is inspired by our wonderful Sonoran Desert wildlife. The piece was originally commissioned by a Tucson Foothills homeowner as ornamentation to their front gate stone pedestal. Taking pleasure in the warmth of the morning sun, The Guardian remains on alert for nearby predators.

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Guardian of the Sacred Place

Guardian of the Sacred Place

Gifted by Edie + Summer Michelson Milender

Harris, born on July 16, 1939, is a third generation Tucsonan. For many years he worked as a farrier, but now focuses on sculpture. In college, he supported himself by horseshoeing and studied animal pathology, but then discovered a talent for shaping metal in other ways. Most of his work is realistic and, as a fourth generation Comanche, he is very influenced by Native American themes and styles. He often uses the same materials—hand forged steel, stainless steel, copper and sometimes sterling silver—and does not make any sketches or drawings before beginning. This piece was commissioned by a couple who wanted a sculpture to commemorate their love for each other. The symbols are mostly from the Anasazi culture but a Kokopelli was included at their request. A secret compartment was created in the back with two pieces of turquoise sealed inside; each person was the last to touch the other’s stone. Later, when the sculptor moved seven-foot-tall sculpture from the couple’s yard to the Tucson J, the two pieces of turquoise were gone: a confirmation of their love. The sentimental and emotional piece celebrates the sacredness of a long relationship.

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Hamakom yenachem atchem betoch she-ahr

Joan Rudd values economy of line, clarity, and vitality in their work. They sculpt to capture moments of connectedness between people, to create a geometric unity of form and composition, and hopefully, to depict a warm “sheynkayt” or spiritual beauty. Their figurative pieces aim to make interior psychological states visible through form, space, and gesture. For Joan, the moments of cutting through a block of clay with a wire, first horizontally and then vertically, to rough out the initial piece, are tremendously exciting. The goal is always emotion: with how little clay, or how simply done, can the emotion be expressed.

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Homenaje Al Colibri​

Homenaje Al Colibri

Gifted by the artist

Josefina Temín is a Mexican sculptor who works with two materials to complete her work – paper and steel. She believes that with these two materials she can express herself freely.

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In Contemplation of Peace

In Contemplation of Peace

Gifted by Jill + Herschel Rosenzweig recognizing Elaine Lisberg, Tucson International Jewish Film Festival Charter Founder

A bearded wise man sits serenely in the garden in repose within its atmosphere of tranquility; his eyes are closed, but his face reveals a blissful inner vision, in his contemplation of peace. Who is the wise person the viewers will see? Rabbi? Philosopher? Master? Sage? Saint? Prophet? Guru? The viewers are free to see what they see and feel what is within them in their own contemplation, prayer, or meditation on peace. Tranquility in our heart? Harmony in our family? Unity in our community? Concord in our society? Civility in our politics? Co-existence with our environment? The end of hate? The end of war? A safe and peaceful future for all our children? A return to the garden of peace within.

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Joy of Life

Joy of Life

Gifted by Jill + Herschel Rosenzweig

David Unger has a unique style that combines abstract with realism in the form of angular and geometric shapes. His work is all about movement and the human form. His figures express a joy of life. Unger has been sculpting for 60 years and his works are exhibited in galleries, buildings and private collections throughout the world.

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Life is a Balancing Act

Life is a Balancing Act

Gifted by Jill + Herschel Rosenzweig in memory of Ray Lederman

When Cindy Debold started to create Life is a Balancing Act, she was thinking about balance in regard to learning and health. She has originally planned to create a girl in an old-time dress balancing an apple on her head, but she didn’t want to cover up all the work she had done. Her hope is that we see self-confidence and trust in oneself.

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Liza Sculpture

Liza

Gifted by Jill + Herschel Rosenzweig

Glenna Goodacre’s bronze sculptures are immediately recognizable for their lively expression, fluid texture, and intriguing composition. Her work is included in countless public, private, municipal and museum collections across the world. Goodacre graduated from Colorado College and took classes at the Art Student’s League in New York. She returned to Texas to paint and began sculpting in 1969. Awards and accomplishments include, among others: a Texas Medal Of Arts, induction into the Cowgirl Hall Of Fame, and a Lifetime Achievement Award from the Booth Western Art Museum. Her most well-known work is the Vietnam Women’s Memorial installed in Washington, D.C. in 1993. In 1997, Goodacre created monumental Irish Memorial in Philadelphia which was installed at Penn’s Landing in 2003. After a nationwide competition for a Sacagawea dollar coin design in 1999, Goodacre’s rendering for the obverse face was unveiled at the White House by Hillary Clinton.

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Mosaic

Mosaic

Gifted by the artist

Ted enjoyed sculpting in marble and alabaster and displayed his works in his studio and throughout Tucson. He was a U.S. Army veteran of the Korean Conflict and a proud member of Temple Emanu-El.

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Mourning Dove Sculpture

Mourning Dove Nesting in Palm Tree

Glenna Goodacre’s bronze sculptures are immediately recognizable for their lively expression, fluid texture, and intriguing composition. Her work is included in countless public, private, municipal and museum collections across the world. Goodacre graduated from Colorado College and took classes at the Art Student’s League in New York. She returned to Texas to paint and began sculpting in 1969. 


Awards and accomplishments include, among others: a Texas Medal Of Arts, induction into the Cowgirl Hall Of Fame, and a Lifetime Achievement Award from the Booth Western Art Museum. Her most well-known work is the Vietnam Women’s Memorial installed in Washington, D.C. in 1993. In 1997, Goodacre created monumental Irish Memorial in Philadelphia which was installed at Penn’s Landing in 2003. 


After a nationwide competition for a Sacagawea dollar coin design in 1999, Goodacre’s rendering for the obverse face was unveiled at the White House by Hillary Clinton.

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Original Steel Sculpture

Original Steel Sculpture

Gifted by Sheldon Trubatch

For over twenty years Mark A. Wallis has designed and built original sculpture, furniture and outdoor environmental works. His work has been collected across the USA and abroad. Known nationally for his freestanding kinetic sculptures that soar into space like a surreal drawing, Wallis continues his quest to create and explore new compositions in a variety of materials. Whether the artist is exploring the intrinsic qualities of exotic woods, bending quarter inch steel, or placing fifteen-ton stones in a field, he maintains a fascination with serendipity and the art of process. The language of his work can best be summarized into one word: relationships. Wallis composes from a deep inner place that goes beyond words, symbols or theme. Uniquely attributed to his persistence in studio work, extracting influences from a spiritual pool rather than popular stylistic modes, it is evident that his vision and body of work is boldly separate from any artist today. 

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Pest Control

Pest Control

Gifted by the family in memory of Uncle Leo

Los-Angeles based artist Matt Johnson, a former student of Charles Ray, crafts visual jokes through the juxtaposition of material and subject matter. The artist has created faces in Wonder Bread, rendered the Pietà—the traditional depiction of Mary holding a dead Christ in Christian Art—out of bronze pipes, and transformed a basketball into a Jack-O-Lantern. Johnson’s jokes often have double meanings. 

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Prometheus Torso

Robert Russin, Distinguished Professor of Art and University Artist in Residence at the University of Wyoming, was born in New York City and earned both his BA and MA in art from City College of New York. He studied on fellowship at the Beaux Arts Institute of Design and taught at Cooper Union and City College before joining the UW faculty in 1947. Awarded a Ford Foundation Fellowship in 1953, he spent a year in Italy and returned frequently for commissions and creative work. By age 25, Russin had already won two national sculpture competitions and completed major public commissions. He was active in the Sculptors’ Guild, the National Sculpture Society, and served as an advisor to the International Sculpture Conferences.

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Reunion Sculpture

Reunion

Gifted by Jill + Herschel Rosenzweig

Harold Grinspoon is an artist based in western Massachusetts. His sculptures have risen out of a life of creative ventures in both business and establishing the Harold Grinspoon Foundation, which provides literacy and heritage for Jewish children. His career as an artist did not begin until the age of 84, when a large cherry tree fell in his yard and inspired him to transform and explore its form and beauty, mortality and immortality; the result being a 25-foot-tall work of art. Now, several years later, he has created over 140 sculptures from reclaimed trees and limbs. Reunion was created from a Florida live oak branch.

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Sessanta Nova

Sessanta Nova

Gifted by the artist

Ted enjoyed sculpting in marble and alabaster and displayed his works in his studio and throughout Tucson. He was a U.S. Army veteran of the Korean Conflict and a proud member of Temple Emanu-El.

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Signalos

Signalos

Gifted by Rohn Eloul + Family

Kosso Eloul (1920-1995) was born in Russia. He was an Israeli sculptor. His work displays a combination between the influence of “Canaanite” art and the abstractionism of the Ofakim Hadashim movement. He won the Dizengoff Prize for Sculpture in 1951.

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Sisyphus

Sisyphus

Gifted by Pam + Bob Sorock in memory of Dr. Milton + Elaine Sorok

In Greek mythology, Sisyphus is a greedy and deceitful king who is punished by the Gods. He is forced to push a huge boulder up a hill only to have it roll back down, and he had to repeat this effort forever in an endless and meaningless punishment. Sisyphus was the subject of an essay by French author and existentialist philosopher Albert Camus. In Camus’ Sisyphus, life has no ultimate meaning, but man has a mission every day and the most you can do is carry out this mission. He accepts the absurdity of his situation; he is not dead. Life for us can feel like we have no choice: marriage, kids, work, getting up in the morning. We can learn from Sisyphus and be happy with whatever our “rock” may be.

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Spear Bearer Sculpture

Spear Bearer #3

Gary Slater has been working in three-dimensional form in metal for over 45 years, and still finds new ways to create sculpture. Over the years, his sculpture has taken many paths, and he never tires of discovering a new shape or form. The vast majority of his work is geometry based, most of the time starting with circles, squares, and triangles. Then, he manipulates form for a size, place, material and finish. Frequently, he uses combinations of metals, and has integrated glass strategically as well. All sculptures are made in his own studio; all sculptures have his own hand in fabrication.

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Story of Life

Story of Life

Gifted by Jill + Herschel Rosenzweig

Merlin L. Cohen was born in Memphis, TN in 1937 and retired from his full-time dental practice in 1992 to pursue his interest in sculpture. Merlin studied sculpting under the personal instruction of Ralph Hurst, was a Sculptor-in-Residence at the University of Tennessee-Martin, studied at the Montoya/MAS Famous Sculptors Seminar, and annually attended the Marble Institute of Colorado. Broceliande is the mythical forest where Merlin the wizard was encased in stone. As in those legendary times, Merlin Cohen strove to unlock magical power and beauty stored within the rock, working primarily in stone with pieces ranging in size from tabletop art to monumental and landscape features. His art is enjoyed in private and public collections worldwide and has been featured in local, regional, and national publications.

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Summer Showers

Summer Showers

Gifted by Jill + Herschel Rosenzweig

In loving memory of Samantha Cravens, always loving, always loved.

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Swell

Swell

Gifted by Sheldon Trubatch

Lauri Slenning was born and raised in Portland. A remarkable artist since childhood, Lauri went on to study at Portland State, graduating with a BS. Lauri continued her pursuit of becoming a professional artist by earning her Masters in Fine Arts degree at the University of Arizona in 1987. After a few years of teaching at the University, Lauri began making her mark in the fine arts community in Tucson. Her work is permanently on display nationally in museums, private collections, and public spaces, including at the visitors center at the Hoover Dam.

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Tree of Knowledge

Tree of Knowledge

Gifted by Jill + Herschel Rosenzweig

Tidhar “Tidi” Ozeri is an Israeli-born metal artist.

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Untitled

Untitled

Gifted by Robert + Joan Kaye Cauthorn

Through her work as an artist, Barbara Grygutis creates public spaces that enhance the built environment, enable civic interaction, and reveal unspoken relationships between nature and humanity. She engages the public through her works of art by identifying themes meaningful to each specific site and community. Grygutis has been commissioned to create over 75 large-scale works of public art throughout North America and is recognized internationally for her sculptural environments. Her completed projects include sculptural environments integrated into urban and natural landscapes, iconic freestanding works, sculpture gardens, public plazas, gateways and signature markers, memorials, monuments, and works of art designed to enhance pedestrian and urban mass transportation systems.

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UTIC II

UTIC II

Gifted by Beth + I. Michael Kasser

Geist was born in Hazen, North Dakota in 1943. Sculpting is his full-time occupation, and he has been sculpting seriously since he graduated from ASU in ’68, later moving to NY to be a sculptor. Geist was born with an interest in sculpture. It was his calling. He grew up on a farm with all kinds of equipment, welders and shops. He began welding at age 11, with inspiration from his father who invented and patented several things. In his work, he uses things from nature like stone and wood, which he views as something humans are naturally attracted to. The stones speak and some say more than others. Geist is attracted to the ones that speak loudest to him and hopes they speak to other people, too.

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The Warrior

The Warrior

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Welcome

Welcome

Gifted by Robert Greenberg

Curt Brill began his professional art career just shy of 50 years ago as a potter. It is because of his deep love for sculpting and the material clay that he has remained a sculptor. The responsive nature of clay has become more and more visually important to him. It is because of that responsive nature of clay that he has pursued an expression of his figures more in line with the way that he visually experiences the world. It is alive and fluid…evolving… moving… the details left to the imaginations of the viewer to complete. His figures are intended to be visual journeys with their own aliveness much more so than replications of a human form.

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Window to Heaven

Window to Heaven

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Wrinkled Thought Sculpture

Wrinkled Thought

Wrinkled Thoughts is the miniature version of the life-size Wise Elephant sculpture, located in Waco, TX at the Cameron Park Zoo. The sculpture draws inspiration from Auguste Rodin’s The Thinker with a playful twist of humor to the statue. Referencing the zoo’s wildlife, the artisit was immediately drawn to the African elephant. This artwork is unique because it provides an optimal opportunity to see, first hand, the vast size and beauty of these amazing mammals in a light-hearted, inviting manner. Additionally, the sculpture also displays the power and wisdom that elephants often symbolize. The sculpture is created out of bronze using a lost wax technique. The original stands 11 ft tall, but the Wrinkled Thoughts sculpture stands approximately 3ft tall. The addition of the bench that the elephant sits on, adds the perfect opportunity to get a photo with the wise elephant.

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