See the “River Festival Call” for details.
Community Sculpture Race Call
Sculpture Race a Success!
The June 4 sculpture race was wildly successful at its site along Cambridge Parkway this year.
Daniel Rosenberg took first prize with Hatching, a multi-layered geometric form comprised of interlocking cardboard pieces. Daniel came in last place last year as a crew member of the square-wheeled Sisyphus sculpture. Try, try, and try…you succeed at last!
1st Place: Hatching blazes towards the finish line
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Second place was taken by two John Weidman sculptures from the original World Sculpture Racing Society races in the 1980s. Weidman’s stone and metal pieces, Push and Red-Breasted Sunbather, arrived in a dead heat. Push was piloted by James Herold, who won first place last year with another legacy piece, William Wainwright’s Wheel #2.
Tied for 2d Place: Red-Breasted Sunbather thunders toward the finish
Tied for 2d Place. Twins do their best to budge the cantankerous Push at the Exhibition.
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Third place went to Seismic Cartographer, an entry by B.U.’s Time-Based Sculpture Class, a piece which dripped colored water–from ice cubes!–onto paper moving along rollers driven by the wheels’ turns. The class was taught by PSR team member Dennis Svoronos.
3rd Place: Seismic Cartographer. Flag-bearer runs ahead to clear pedestrians from the way
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More photos and stories to come!
Scene from the Exhibition following the race
Images by C. Herold
Raceday is coming! – Schedule & Directions
Poster by Dennis Svoronos
Schedule
11 AM sharp – opening ceremony at the Sculpture Garden
11:10 or so – staggered race from the Garden down Cambridge Parkway and back the same way.
11:50 or so – awards ceremony at the Garden
12-6 – sculpture racing exhibition at the Garden
Location
The Sculpture Garden and the Start and Finish lines are at the top (north) of Cambridge Parkway. There’s no parking there.
THREE MAPS (the first two are upside-down)
The Sculpture Garden. This above map is upside-down (east is to the left!)
Walk to the Sculpture Garden along Lechmere Canal, which runs east from Cambridgeside Galleria (the above map is also upside-down; east is to the left!)
Cambridge Parkway runs along the Charles River near the Science Center. (This map is correct.)
And where is all that? (The red marker is right near the race start/finish line.)
How do you get there?
Walk easterly from the Cambridgeside Galleria past the fountain, along the Lechmere Canal, under Land Boulevard, towards the Charles River.
If you’re dropping someone off, drive in a northerly direction along Land Boulevard (the wide orange road on the map), and pull over just before or after Cambridge Parkway, which runs east/to the right off Land Boulevard (you can use “International Merchant Services” on your GPS).
Parking
- Cambridgeside Galleria Garage (100 Cambridgeside Place) –5 hours or fewer $11; more than 5 hours, daily max of $22.
- First Street Garage (Spring St at First) – 5 hours is $8; more than 10 hours is $20.
- There is metered parking to the west of the Galleria, and then, further west, resident parking.
The T
10 Minute Walk
- Lechmere Station
- Science Park
20 Minute Walk
- MIT/Kendall
- Charles/MGH are 20-minute walks.
Consider
Consider giving yourself plenty of time to orient yourself and make your way to the Sculpture Garden and Cambridge Parkway. We look forward to seeing you there!
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Community Race at Danehy Park
Here are the racers from April 23rd’s race at Danehy Park photographed by Andrew Held. More images here.
Starting line.
BiblioBurro by Harvard Arts in Education Team with Scott Ruescher
Aesop’s Fabulous Flying Machine by Maud Morgan Arts kids with Mitch Ryerson
Planet Express by Team Fornasaro (first place)
Flock by Artist Operation
Ofu 22/7 by Team Frehywot
Flashbulb of Destiny Captained by Jaral HALsen by Parts & Crafts kids with Jeff DelPapa
Dizzy the Cat by Parts & Crafts kids with Jeff DelPapa
A Wildly Running Winged Demon by Gilead Tadmor
Community Raceday is Coming!
Announcing 2016 Contenders – Field of 17
Jurors Select Race Entries
Kim Bernard, Jason Weeks, and Anne Lilly review submissions for the June 4 People’s Sculpture Race at the Cambridge Arts River Festival. Anne Lilly’s studio, March 22, 2016.
River Festival Entry Deadline Extended to March 18!
Announcing Jurors for the River Festival Race
Introducing this year’s Cambridge Arts River Festival race jurors: Kinetic Sculptors Anne Lilly and Kim Bernard, and Cambridge Arts Council Executive Director Jason Wee
Anne Lilly is a kinetic sculptor and curator. She was named a 2014 visiting artist at MIT and 2012 artist-in-residence at the Art Institute of Boston. She has created artworks for a year-long exhibition of kinetic art at the MIT Museum, the Mount Auburn Cemetery in Cambridge, MA, the City of Boston’s ParkArts program, and the Fort Point Public Arts Series, among other accomplishments.
Kim Bernard, who sits on the Advisory Board of PSR, and led the Harvard Physics Team’s entry last year–the square-wheeled Sisyphus–is an artist working in kinetic sculpture, installations, and encaustics. She teaches at Maine College of Art.
Jason Weeks is Cambridge Arts Council’s Executive Director, an adjunct lecturer in Arts Administration at B.U. and a founding board member of MASSCreative.