Sculpturefest 2023 at Prosper Road, Woodstock, Vermont opens on Sunday July 2nd.

Meet the artists: 3 PM
Music by Sonny Saul and Grace Marie Wallace: 4:30 PM
BYO Picnic

Open daily, dawn to dusk, through foliage season.
No admission charge.

Featured Artist 2023:

Stefania Urist

Follow Stephnia's work on Instagram

Stephania' statement:

This year, I am creating an immersive installation that is created out of phragmites, an invasive reed to the North Eastern US. Phragmites is an aggressive invasive species that propagates in wetlands and disturbed environments, creating monocultures and choking out native plants. Phragmites are also a carbon sink, absorbing more of the problematic greenhouse gases than they emit, and help with coastal wetland storm resilience, potentially having a beneficial impact on the climate change crisis. The binary impacts of exotic species on the environment are more complicated than being purely positive or negative. I am collecting and weaving the phragmites into fences to create an immersive maze-like installation to address the complicated issues of borders and migration of all species and the impact of human development on the environment. I look forward to seeing you there and sharing my largest artwork to date with you!

Charlet and Peter Davenport have invited sculptors and artists to exhibit work on the land for over three decades.

Artists exhibiting new work:

Prosper Road directions

News:

You can find SculptureFest on Otocast, a free app available on iTunes and Google Play. The Otocast app is used around the country (and beyond) to produce audio/video guides for public art, historic sites, murals, landmarks, architecture, monuments, and other points-of-interest.

Director Charlet Davenport has worked as an artist in Vermont since 1963. Her work in ceramic sculpture is influenced by many years of acting as Director of Sculpture Fest. Initially her ourdoor art installations were created on fibre glass mesh and installed in public spaces (St. Gaudens Historic National Park, The Rotunda at Dartmouth College Hopkins Center, the Vermont Carving Studio and Sculpture Center, the bank of the Hoosic River on Williams College Campus, Slater Mill, Pawtucket, RI, the TW Wood Art Center and a variety of other public and semi-public spaces.) Charlet was a panelist on the Transcendental Landscape Art Panel and Discussion at the Fruitlands Museum in Harvard, Massachusett in September 2012.

Peter Davenport, Co-Director of Sculpture Fest, is the one-man landscape force. Along with his duties as curator of the exhibition he aids artists in installing work, clearing sites, creating the signage, keeping everything clear for visitors as well as caring for the grounds throughout the exhibition time.

Both Davenports agree that land belongs to all of us and welcome the guests who come to Sculpture Fest each year.