Robert T. Webb Sculpture Garden
Park in Dalton, Georgia, U.S.
The Robert T. Webb Sculpture Garden is a five-acre (2.0 ha) admission-free, open-air museum and sculpture park located in Dalton, Georgia, near Chattanooga, Tennessee, and is operated by the Creative Arts Guild, the state's oldest multi-disciplinary, community arts organization. The sculpture garden is the first permanent installation of its kind in the state of Georgia The garden features more than 50 outdoor sculptures in three sections of the Guild's property—the Ken and Myra White Magnolia Crescent, the Eli Rosen Garden and the Founders Garden—that provide an organic setting for the works, including mature trees, shrubs and flowers. The garden includes works by prominent artists such as Isamu Noguchi, Scott Burton, James Rosati, Betty Gold, Victor Salmones, Guy Dill, Chana Orloff, Felipe Castaneda and Ken Macklin. The Creative Arts Guild also maintains an indoor art gallery, which hosts rotating exhibits by local, regional and national artists. The sculpture garden welcomes approximately 10,000 visitors each year and is an educational resource for regional schools.
History
The sculpture garden was launched in October 2010 after local businessperson and arts patron Robert Webb raised funds for the purchase of twelve garden scale and monumental works by U.S. and Canadian artists to complement a vintage Noguchi piece donated by George and Rhenda Spence and five works that had been gifted to the Creative Arts Guild by artists who participated in a 2003 juried exhibition curated by internationally renowned sculptor and arts advocate John Henry Webb worked with Guild executive director Terry Tomasello to grow the garden gradually, adding new work periodically during each subsequent year to maintain public interest while cultivating a sense of a unified whole in the work. The garden now features 52 works by artists from the U.S., Canada, Mexico, South America and Europe.
During 2020, the Guild celebrated the tenth anniversary of the sculpture garden by announcing a plan focusing on acquisition, re-siting, conservation, landscaping and illumination. Sixteen new works were added to the collection, bringing the total pieces on site to 54. Half of the new works were by female sculptors, two were by an Indigenous artist and one-third were by artists from Mexico or Latin America, reinforcing the Guild's commitment to an inclusive collection.
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