April 3, 2006
FOR
IMMEDIATE RELEASE
ART OF THE GAME ANNOUNCE SCULPTURE WINNERS
Pittsfield, MA. On Monday, April 3 at
6:30pm in the auditorium of The Berkshire Athenaeum,
located at 1 Wendell Avenue in Pittsfield, Mary Rentz,
co-chair of the Art Of The Game committee announced, and
introduced, the winners of the 3-D Sculpture project,
part of this summer’s city-wide art and baseball
celebration.
The artists and their pieces are:
John D. Broderick of Pittsfield: “The Pitcher”, a
30 x 15 foot installation;
Cara Carnavale and Todd Storti of Pittsfield:
“Hometeam Bench”;
James D’Aniello of Pittsfield: “Hard Ball”, a 6 x
6 foot steel sculpture, valued at $3,500 by
the artist;
Adriana De La Cuadra of Bogota, Colombia, South
America, currently residing in
Hancock, MA: “Base-Ball-Stop”, (6) installations;
Eric Drury of Pittsfield: “Pittsfield: Diamond In
The Rough”, 3x5x5 foot Lexan diamond, valued at $5,000
by the artist;
Diane Firtell of Housatonic: “There Oughta Be A
Law", 6 foot x 36 inch installation, valued at $1,600 by
the artist;
Marion Grant of Richmond, MA: “Ball”, Photo
Mural;
Jerid S. Hohn of North Adams: “Baseball: 001",
bench;
Jerid S. Hohn of North Adams: “Elements of the
Game”, installation;
Anthony Krauss of Woodstock, NY: “Double
Diamond”, double-sided bench of mirrored aluminum and
Cedar, valued at $24,000 by the artist;
Gary Orlinsky of Leverett, MA: “Pitchers and
Catchers Report”, a sculpture of white cedar, wooden
bats, baseballs, 12x6 feet, valued at $3,800 by the
artist;
Bryan P. Powers of Pittsfield: “Baseball Bench”;
Colleen A. Quinn of Pittsfield: “Ball Bench”;
Arline M. Reilly of Pittsfield: “Baseball
BirdBath”, 4x3x2; Jacquie Roland of Saugerties, NY: “The
Mickey Mantle” assemblage, valued at $10,000 by the
artist;
Patricia Blair Ryan of Great Barrington: “Winding
Up”, weathervane, 4 feet tall, valued at $4,000 by the
artist;
Janice L. Shields of Stockbridge: “Warming the
Bench”, 48" x 84" x 24" bench with sculptures, valued at
$2,100 by the artist;
Susan Carty Treat of South Lee: “Batter Up”, wire
sculpture;
W.C. Wampler of Pittsfield: “Bat and Ball Bench”,
valued at $1,000 by the artist.
These eighteen artists (or teams) will create the
twenty sculptures, installations and three-dimensional
public art that form the centerpiece of the Art Of The
Game project. Once installed, by the June 17 opening,
these pieces will be on permanent display through the
Fall of 2007. Applications were also received from
artists in Denver, Colorado, Mason City, Illinois,
Rancho Santa Fe, California, Plainfield, Massachusetts
and Takoma Park, Maryland.
Each artist receives an honorarium of $1000 for each
piece completed and this fee includes their costs. Art
Of The Game will secure the works in public areas of the
City of Pittsfield’s downtown. Several of these works
will be purchased for permanent inclusion the city’s
growing collection of public art.
The chosen works were on display in the Athenaeum’s
auditorium along with many of the sketches for the
Baseball Glove Chair Sculptures being created for Art Of
The Game by school-age kids throughout the county.
Participating schools in this portion of the public art
project include:
Adams Memorial Middle School, Allendale School,
BArT Charter Public School,
Berkshire Country Day School, Berkshire Christian
School, Berkshire Music School, Robert T. Capeless
Elementary School, Clarksburg Elementary School, Conte
Community School, Conte Middle School, Crosby Elementary
School, John Dewey Academy, Drury High School, The
Eagleton School, Egremont Elementary School, Gabriel
Abbott Memorial Middle School, Herberg Middle School,
Hibbard Alternative, Hillcrest Educational
Center-Housatonic Academy, Hillcrest Educational Centers
-Brookside , Hillcrest Educational Centers Campus,
Hillcrest Educational Centers- Highpoint, Hillcrest
Educational Centers -Intensive Treatment Unit, Hoosac
Valley, Interlaken (IS 183), Lee High School, Lenox
High School, Lenox Memorial Middle School, McCann
Technical HS, Miss Hall's School, Monument Mountain
Regional High School, Monument Valley Middle School,
Morningside Community School, Mount Everett High School,
Mount Greylock High School, Nessacus Middle School, Pine
Cobble School, Pittsfield High School, Reid Middle
School, Richmond Consolidated School, St. Agnes School,
St. Joseph Central High School, St. Mark School, Sinai
Academy of the Berkshires, Stearns Elementary School,
Taconic High School, Wahconah Regional High School, and
Williams Elementary School.
Other organizations also creating Glove Sculptures
include:
Ad Lib, Boys and Girls Club, Brien Center “Options For
Youth”, Brien Center “South 40” after school program,
Brigham Community Center (Girls INC), CATA-Community
Access to the Arts- in collaboration with participants
from Berkshire County Association of Retarded Citizens,
Catholic Youth Center, Community Transitions Program,
First Baptist Church, Girl Scout Troop #44, Western
Mass. G.S Girl Scout Troop #363, Pittsfield Babe Ruth
League, Pittsfield Girls’ Softball League, Pittsfield
Minor League, Pittsfield North Little League, Pittsfield
South Little League, Pittsfield West Little League, St.
Stephen’s Episcopal Church, Special Olympics, Helen
Berube Teen Parent Program, YMCA, and Youth Alive
Program.
These programs were chosen through an application
process. Altogether there will be one hundred (100)
glove sculptures in the Art Of The Game exhibition.
Rentz also announced the first call to artists for the
1791 Memorial Statue to be erected as a permanent
monument to the players in Pittsfield who inspired the
historic bylaw through which the city can claim to have
first call on acknowledged baseball in America.
Information on the sculpture competition, expected to
inspire artists across the nation, is available on the
Art Of The Game website:
www.artgamepittsfield.org. Deadline for submissions
is set for July 1, 2006. The statue, anticipated to cost
(with prize) between $100,000 and $150,000 will be
erected at a public site in Pittsfield in late summer,
2007.
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For more information, contact J. Peter Bergman at
413-443-5631.
