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A 25-foot walk-through sculpture of stainless steel and coloured glass discs was dedicated beside the Norton Center for the Arts at Centre College, Danville, Kentucky, in October 2022. Centre describes it as a public art installation honouring glass artist Stephen Rolfe Powell, who died in 2019.
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Stephen Rolfe Powell Memorial Sculpture Garden 25-ft glass sculpture
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The Stephen R. Powell Memorial Garden and Outdoor Classroom was dedicated on the Centre College campus during homecoming on 15 October 2022. Powell, an internationally acclaimed glass artist, taught at Centre for 30 years and died in 2019.
According to Centre College, the project was led by his former student Brook Forrest White Jr., whose Louisville studio made the sculpture's colourful glass discs. The 25-foot stainless-steel structure was crafted by Louisville artist Dave Caudill, with help from former students Paul Nelson and Paul Hugues. Its shape recalls Powell's glass vessels. Visitors can walk through it, and an illuminated circle set in the ground beneath it incorporates shards of Powell's glass.
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A memorial garden and outdoor classroom on the Centre College campus, centred on a 25-foot sculpture that visitors can walk through. Centre College describes an illuminated glass-shard circle in the ground and benches, including one modelled on a glassblower's bench.
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The garden is on the Centre College campus in Danville, Kentucky, next to the Norton Center for the Arts. It is on college grounds; Centre's own page describes it as a public art installation.
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