Burro Trio in Southlake Texas
Our beautiful Burro Trio has landed in their new home in Southlake, Texas. This is a fun placement by Jane DeDecker and the National Sculptors' Guild. Sometimes it's nice to have something light-hearted like this to work on. The Donkey's were commissioned by the city to pay tribute to the history of the site. Our installation for this has been on hold due to the pandemic, so we are so happy to see it actualized today.
We hope the visitors to Southlake Commons love being greeted by this charismatic family.
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The bronze is available as a limited edition as a set or individually, add them to your art collection, shop online here.
Update 2/20/2019: Jane has been busy adding clay to the armatures and the Burro Trio enlargement is nearly complete. They are coming to life and showing so much personality. #WIP
Jane DeDecker's concept sketch for the Burro Trio
1/15/19: We are thrilled to have a new project with the City of Southlake. This time it's a fun homage to the burros that called the area being developed home: "When plans for Southlake Commons were brought forward, the developer Sage Group, Inc. and the City Council agreed to place a bronze donkey sculpture near the Southlake Boulevard entrance to commemorate the property's history."
The city came to NSG seeking an artist, and we of course recommended one of the nation's top figurative sculptors, Jane DeDecker. She's captured the quirky personality of the treasured donkey's so well, it's a perfect fit.
In the initial clay sketch: ​Depicted are two adults and a baby. One adult shows affection to the baby and the other looks off in a direction of a sound - showing both the nurturing and inquisitive curiosity of burros.
Between the Lines at Hiatt Farms Montessori
A local placement of Jane DeDecker's "Between the Lines" at the Hiatt Farms Montessori in Loveland today.
We love how the naturalistic bronze fits right into the site. Two kids sit on the limb of a tree, joyfully reading together. A squirrel listens in on the reading from above.
The composition reinforces the school's vision... "to build independence, self-confidence and passion. We emphasize respect for others, oneself and the environment as well as patience, strong moral character and grit."
We hope it inspires learning in everyone who visits.
From a Different Perspective in Downey, CA
Jane DeDecker sculpting "From a Different Perspective"
Coming soon to Downey, California...
​The National Sculptors' Guild is preparing to install "From a Different Perspective" by Jane DeDecker on Downey Avenue in California once it is safe to install.
This sculpture is part of a series of Public Art placements that the City has commissioned from the National Sculptors' Guild for installation in 2020.
The 8-foot tall bronze depicts a young person doing a handstand with pocket change slipping out. The sculpture will be placed in a new urban pocket park along Downey Avenue.
The sculpture is available in a limited edition as a monument or the maquette. Click here to order one.
Check back for images of the monument in place.
Jane and son, David apply the patina
Western Art And Architecture : DeDecker
Check out our ad in the latest Western Art and Architecture we are featuring Jane DeDecker sculpting "From a Different Perspective" which the National Sculptors' Guild will be placing in downtown Downey, California as soon as it is cast in bronze and we can safely install.
Commissioned by @cityofdowneyca the 8ft tall figure doing a handstand will be a fun addition to the city's growing public art collection that we are thrilled to be an integral part in starting.
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International Sculpture Day 2020
In celebration of International Sculpture Day here are a few of our most recent Public Art monuments. Go find our over 515 monumental sculpture placements and enjoy public art!
#InternationalSculptureDay #PublicArt #Sculptures #ISday #NSG #NationalSculptorsGuild #Warrick #Norman #DeDecker #Enoch
Mockingbird/Orange Tree by Michael Warrick and the National Sculptors' Guild in Whittier, CA
Community by Clay Enoch and the National Sculptors' Guild in Little Rock, AR
Homeward/Monarch by Joe Norman and the National Sculptors' Guild in Downey, CA
My Heart is in Your Hands by Jane DeDecker and the National Sculptors' Guild in Downey, CA
My Heart is in Your Hands in Downey, CA
Jane DeDecker's My Heart is in Your Hands
Our installations today in downtown Downey, CA!
Joe Norman's
#HomewardMonarch
and Jane DeDecker's
#MyHeartIsInYourHands
These are the first of a series of #PublicArt placements that the City has commissioned
from the National Sculptors' Guild to enhance
​#DowneyAvenue
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Click here to see Joe's install
February 20, 2020 From #SnowyColorado to #SunnyCalifornia the #NationalSculptorsGuild has loaded up the first two sculptures for the @cityofdowneyca's #PublicArt program.
Arkansas 19th Amendment Memorial
The Arkansas 19th Amendment Memorial by Jane DeDecker and the National Sculptors' Guild will be dedicated October 10th at 11am in the new Women's Suffrage Centennial Plaza at the Vogel Schwartz Sculpture Garden
10/9/2019 #ThisJustIn #PublicArt
The National Sculptors' Guild has just finished installing NSG Fellow Jane DeDecker's "Arkansas Nineteenth Amendment Memorial" bronze sculpture with its custom designed granite and stainless-steel base in Little Rock, Arkansas. Could it be more gorgeous?!!
Special thanks to the Sculpture at the River Market and City of Little Rock for creating such a beautiful plaza for the sculpture.
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Installation images shown below
Jane DeDecker with Son, David, complete the patina
Bric's dog Fable checks out the strapping job
10/5/2019: The National Sculptors' Guild has loaded up NSG Fellow Jane DeDecker's "Arkansas Nineteenth Amendment Memorial" bronze sculpture with its custom designed granite and stainless-steel base and are headed to Little Rock Arkansas... Fable is supervising the load.
Stay tuned for pics of the installation.
The sculpture celebrates the 100th Anniversary of the Nineteenth Amendment, Granting Women the Right To Vote
Jane customized the composition for the Arkansas placement, by including additional historic figures; two of the suffragettes who helped lead the movement in Arkansas. Josephine Miller Brown and Julia Burnell Babcock aka Bernie Babcock
In 1919, Arkansas became the 12th state to approve the 19th Amendment.
The Arkansas 19th Amendment Memorial will be dedicated October 10th at 11am in the Women's Suffrage Centennial Plaza at Little Rock's Riverfront Park
This 5-ft version (minus the two extra figures) is the #Maquette for DeDecker's Every Word We Utter 20-ft #Monument proposed for placement in DC with bills currently being passed through the various points of #legislature. #BePartOfTheCircle learn more...
So many more phenomenal women were involved in this movement than depicted here. We honor them all with gratitude for the steps they made for ours and future generations.
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Every Word We Utter
Their Movement, Our Monument
Be Part of the Circle
Every Word We Utter bronze study
"Every Word We Utter" is a Monument to the Women's Suffrage Movement. The monument commemorates the largest nonviolent revolution in our nation's history — the movement for women's right to vote. Dedicated to Susan B. Anthony and Elizabeth Cady Stanton, the monument will mark the 100th Anniversary of the ratification of the 19th amendment, the women's right to vote.
DeDecker elected to depict multiple figures in the monument as a reminder that it took a whole group of women to accomplish this right. Susan B. Anthony and Elizabeth Cady Stanton are shown collaborating on the 19th amendment. Ida B Wells and Alice Paul are shown paying homage to the women before them; standing on the shoulders of giants(Sojourner Truth, Harriet Stanton Blatch, Anthony and Stanton, etc). Signatures of the group of women it took surround the monument. The immensity and scale needed to equal the magnitude of the movement. Bold and Beautiful just like those women who fought for our rights.
"Every word we utter, every act we perform … are wafted into enumerable other circles …" Elizabeth Cady Stanton reflecting on the life of Lucretia Mott.
"When we see them (historic female figures), we're reminded. It's important that we see these women, every day. Seeing them every day will help us to remember their goals and remember their aspirations. Sending a message to every woman that they do have a voice and they can use their voice. I hope the monument inspires young women..., little girls." - Jane DeDecker
Jane with the clay busts of the women being commemorated in the monument
​Help build the Monument and Commemorate the Women's Movement and the Right to Vote..., 100 years on August 18, 2020. Be part of the circle, contribute to NSG Fellow Jane DeDecker's Every Word We Utter
DeDecker Studio is currently working on placing the 20-ft tall monument in Washington, DC. Once fully funded, this important bronze sculpture will be placed in a location of national prominence to inspire future generations. Track the progress of HR 473 (sponsor Congressman Joe Neguse) in the US Congress:
The 5-ft tall bronze and granite maquette will be placed as a limited edition in other appropriate spaces across the nation. Proceeds from these national sales of the maquette will help make the monument possible. Please contact the National Sculptors' Guild if your public art program has a site for this important piece.
Every Word We Utter 5ft version in clay
Sojourner Truth's portrait taking shape
Every Word We Utter study in bronze
DESCRIPTION AND SYMBOLISM OF THE MONUMENT:
Anthony and Stanton writing the Nineteenth Amendment is the nucleus, the beginning of the women's movement. To the side of the authors stands the elder Sojourner Truth, a beacon for the movement. The young Harriet Stanton Blatch represents the future. From them rises the next generation of the movement, the "daughters" who ratified the nineteenth amendment, represented by Ida B. Wells and Alice Paul. Standing on the shoulders of giants, these women were elevated by what came before. From this height, the ratification flag cascades to the innumerable circles that ripple outwards.
Sojourner Truth, an African-American abolitionist and women's right activist, was among the first voices of the women's movement. She propelled the movement in its early days because she was willing to speak at time when few women did so. I have depicted her standing on a pulpit to illustrate how she willingly projected her voice against injustices. Her gaze is to the future – to the horizon – looking to a place where women – together – will turn the world "right side up again." In my composition, I have sculpted her in her early 50's, around the time she would have delivered her seminal speech, "Ain't I a Woman?" Within the composition, she is a guardian of the belief that women should have the right to vote.
I used the same iconic photograph of the coauthors of the Declaration of Sentiments as inspiration for Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B. Anthony, but I depicted them at their age at the time of the writing of the Sentiments. The two women are physically connected in the sculpture, forming a unified force that truly speaks of the oneness of their purpose. Their words, speeches and wisdom launched a worldwide, peaceful revolution. Even today, these two women offer us the courage and the tools to be the stewards of human rights.
At a joint appearance for Hilary Clinton's campaign, Michelle Obama echoed Stanton's words: "With every action we take, with every word we utter, we think about the millions of children who are watching us, who hang onto our every word, looking at us to show them who they can and should be." Just so, Harriet Stanton Blatch hangs on the words of her mother. She has a look of intensity. She feels it. Blatch is nestled between her mother's hand that holds a pen and foot that breaks the conformities of the base. She holds onto a bonnet, a symbol of the suffragist she will become. Blatch literally grew up during the suffragist movement, and when it was her time, she absorbed the sentiments of her mother's words: "We've got to bring to the President, individually, day by day, week in and week out, the idea that great numbers of women want to be free, will be free."
Alice Paul and Ida B. Wells are at the peak of the coalescence, one in their mission. Although these two women would not have marched side by side, their juxtaposition at the height of the sculpture, symbolizes their shared vision of equal rights. Neither one of these women would take no for an answer. In the photos of the suffragist women marching, they are wearing elaborate hats, an announcement of their presence in the movement. I have depicted Alice Paul and Ida B. Wells wearing such hats. Both women also hold a flag.
The portrait of Alice Paul is inspired by the photo of her draping the ratification flag with its 36th star over the balcony of the suffrage headquarters in Washington D.C. I chose to depict Paul and this celebratory moment to capture the monumental triumph of the nineteenth amendment, an accumulation of the efforts of thousands of American women. She appears youthful and weightless in this monument, and yet she was militant in her efforts. She dedicated her life to the movement and after the vote continued until her death the work for the equal rights amendment.
Ida B. Wells began her career as an activist at a young age. She fervently rallied against the practice of lynching even with the threat of being lynched herself. Wells was known for using the pen and her voice to battle sexism, racism, and violence. In this sculpture Wells stands proudly with a flag of the United States, representing the hope for justice and the rights of every human being. The open gesture of her hand outstretched to the other women around her in this monument reinforces the invitation to join the cause.
Contributions to the monument may be made here. A 501(c)(3) status is pending. Proceeds from the sales of the maquettes make the monument possible. Please contact the National Sculptors' Guild to place the 5ft maquette in your public art program. #BePartOfTheCircle
​Jane has begun work on the monument, below are studio images of the armature and early stages of adding clay, the 5ft maquette is used for reference as she sculpts the enlargement.
This post is an update to a previous one; see the original from 2018 here
Revisiting Harriet Tubman
Here is a video we just ran across by a student digesting and discussing NSG Fellow Jane DeDecker's Harriet Tubman sculpture that we placed inLittle Rock in 2004, part of a series of sculptures that lead to the Clinton Presidential Center see more about our installation
Our sculpture placements continue to move and educate people. #PublicArt #FeedYourCreativeSpirit
Vogel Schwartz Garden Grows
The Vogel Schwartz Sculpture Garden is expanding to showcase additional artwork acquired through proceeds from the Sculpture at the River Market Exhibit. Quickly outgrown, the additional space will allow for more than a dozen sculpture placements. To start, NSG has placed Jane DeDecker's Shortcuts, Lil' Sis; Leo Osborne's Of Grace, a Dan Ostermiller bear - Le Grand Pere; and Big Bill by Tim Cotterill (the Frogman)
Click here to see more of the garden and artwork
The sculpture garden features natural terraces and walkways designed by City of Little Rock's Leland Couch, Mark Webre & National Sculptors' Guild's John Kinkade. The design creates a more intimate space to view smaller works within the Riverfront Park and is ideal for hosting receptions, as well as, allowing visitors to enjoy the sculptures in solitude. The sculpture garden is located northeast of The Marriott in Riverfront Park and is just one stop of many public art placements along the Arkansas river to enjoy artist's sculptures from across the nation. ‪#‎SculptureGarden‬ ‪#‎ArkansasArt‬ ‪#‎RiverfrontPark
Jane DeDecker's Shortcut
Tim Cotterill's Big Bill
Jane DeDecker's Lil' Sis