Bronze Sculpture honoring the great Civil Rights Journalist, Alice Dunnigan. Photo credit, AP Photojournalist Jose Luis Magana, AP/White House (Image on right)

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/08/23/us/alice-allison-dunnigan-newseum-statue.html "Alice Dunnigan, First Black Woman to Cover White House, Will Get Statue at Newseum", New York Times.

http://amp.poynter.org/news/mother-movement-first-black-woman-white-house-correspondent-finally-getting-recognition?fbclid=IwAR1_Xnrx_TpE9pRVERTbe42CGeQPQSsu94aqHbcwg-zHGPXcfa0d3xYVb8Q " 'The Mother of a Movement': First black woman White House correspondent is finally getting recognition", Poynter, A Global Leader in Journalism.

Bronze Sculpture honoring the great Civil Rights Journalist, Alice Dunnigan. Photo credit, AP Photojournalist Jose Luis Magana, AP/White House

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/08/23/us/alice-allison-dunnigan-newseum-statue.html"target="_blank "Alice Dunnigan, First Black Woman to Cover White House, Will Get Statue at Newseum", New York Times.

http://amp.poynter.org/news/mother-movement-first-black-woman-white-house-correspondent-finally-getting-recognition?fbclid=IwAR1_Xnrx_TpE9pRVERTbe42CGeQPQSsu94aqHbcwg-zHGPXcfa0d3xYVb8Q"target="_blank " 'The Mother of a Movement': First black woman White House correspondent is finally getting recognition", Poynter, A Global Leader in Journalism.

Sculptor: Amanda Matthews
Katsina Sacred Dancer Dryad - 6' 3", installed in Lexington, KY, Wellington Park, Women's Recognition Garden.

Katsina is the name for wooden doll, carved by the Hopi Indians, and given to girls beginning in infancy and on dance day ceremonies to help them learn about their responsibilities as women in the community. In the Hopi tradition, Katsina means “messenger between humans and the spirit world”.

Katsina beckons the power and beauty of nature in female form, looks to the sky for her inspiration, and needs no intermediary to express her wisdom, intellect, grace, and gifts.

Katsina is the Sacred Dancer.

She hears and understands the music of the Universe and dances in rhythm with the elements, while moving throughout time and existence. She moves with reason and enlightenment. She dances to the songs of all ancient religions while knowing that she and the stars and the trees are all sculpted from the same source and contain the same life.

Sculptor: Amanda Matthews
Dryad Series.
Hopi Indian Sacred Dancer and messenger of the gods.

Wellington Park Sensory Garden in Lexington, KY
Sculptures designed by Amanda Matthews

The artistic sculptures of native flora, fauna, and fungi will transform the entire space into a landscape of local environmental biology, and should enhance and complement the various plants and beautiful hardscape of the park. As such, these monumental, interactive sculptures are represented as flowers, ferns, mushrooms, a spider, a salamander, and a dragonfly. Secondary sculptures include snail fences, log benches, and naturally fed waterways.

Each design is intended to be interactive and stimulate one or more senses of sight, sound, touch, taste, and smell. The vignettes and sculptures are also designed to create a walking ecology storybook, along with signage including drawings and descriptions of each sculpture explaining its relationship to the local environment and how it is an indicator of a healthy habitat.

Wellington Park Sensory Garden in Lexington, KY Sculptures designed by Amanda Matthews The artistic sculptures of native flora, fauna, and fungi will transform the entire space into a landscape of local environmental biology, and should enhance and complement the various plants and beautiful hardscape of the park. As such, these monumental, interactive sculptures are represented as flowers, ferns, mushrooms, a spider, a salamander, and a dragonfly. Secondary sculptures include snail fences, log benches, and naturally fed waterways. Each design is intended to be interactive and stimulate one or more senses of sight, sound, touch, taste, and smell. The vignettes and sculptures are also designed to create a walking ecology storybook, along with signage including drawings and descriptions of each sculpture explaining its relationship to the local environment and how it is an indicator of a healthy habitat.

Wellington Park Sensory Garden in Lexington, KY
Sculptures designed by Amanda Matthews

The artistic sculptures of native flora, fauna, and fungi will transform the entire space into a landscape of local environmental biology, and should enhance and complement the various plants and beautiful hardscape of the park. As such, these monumental, interactive sculptures are represented as flowers, ferns, mushrooms, a spider, a salamander, and a dragonfly. Secondary sculptures include snail fences, log benches, and naturally fed waterways.

Each design is intended to be interactive and stimulate one or more senses of sight, sound, touch, taste, and smell. The vignettes and sculptures are also designed to create a walking ecology storybook, along with signage including drawings and descriptions of each sculpture explaining its relationship to the local environment and how it is an indicator of a healthy habitat.

Bronze Portrait of Audrey, 12 years old
150% Life Size
Sculptor: Amanda Matthews
Bronze Casting: Prometheus Foundry

Bronze Portrait of Audrey, 12 years old
150% Life Size
Sculptor: Amanda Matthews
Bronze Casting: Prometheus Foundry

Bronze Portrait of Audrey, 12 years old 150% Life Size Sculptor: Amanda Matthews Bronze Casting: Prometheus Foundry

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Sculptor: Amanda Matthews
Dryad Series.
Bronze Casting, Transport & Install: Prometheus Art

Rhiza is a derivative of rhizome, or root, and was inspired by a honeysuckle root and main trunk line. Of Nubian origin, Rhiza represents the "Root of Civilization", as the Nubians were the earliest people to cultivate the land.

Sculptor: Amanda Matthews
Dryad Series.
Bronze Casting, Transport & Install: Prometheus Art

Rhiza is a derivative of rhizome, or root, and was inspired by a honeysuckle root and main trunk line. Of Nubian origin, Rhiza represents the "Root of Civilization", as the Nubians were the earliest people to cultivate the land.

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Artist/Sculptor: Amanda Matthews

Casting & Installation: Prometheus Foundry, LLC

Solomon Lee Van Meter, Jr. - Inventor/Patent Holder of the Backpack Parachute and Aviation Ejection Seat among many other things. His inventions are featured in the Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum Collection. This sculpture is being created for an exhibition at the Kentucky Aviation Museum, and is located at the Blue Grass Airport in Lexington, KY.

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Artist/Sculptor: Amanda Matthews

Casting & Installation: Prometheus Foundry, LLC

Solomon Lee Van Meter, Jr. - Inventor/Patent Holder of the Backpack Parachute and Aviation Ejection Seat among many other things. Larger than life, Solomon Lee Van Meter, Jr shown in bronze and almost finished in clay. His inventions are featured in the Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum Collection. This sculpture is being created for an exhibition a the Kentucky Aviation Museum and the Lexington Airport, but may travel to other venues.

Sculptor: Amanda Matthews
Clay maquette of life size sculpture in progress...

Bronze Casting: Prometheus Art Foundry

Captain Solomon Lee Van Meter, Jr. was a pioneer aviator and inventor of the backpack parachute and airplane ejection seat. His work is featured at the Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum in Washington D.C., United States of America

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Sculptor: Amanda Matthews

Bronze Casting: Prometheus Art Foundry

Captain Solomon Lee Van Meter, Jr. was a pioneer aviator and inventor of the backpack parachute and airplane ejection seat. His work is featured at the Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum in Washington D.C., United States of America

Sculptor: Amanda Matthews
Dryad Series.
Bronze Casting, Transport & Install: Prometheus Art
Location of Original: Cincinnati, Ohio

Lilith, a leader to many and demon to others. Lilith chose a life among nature rather than submitting to the expectations of others. The original Lilith was made possible with a generous grant from the Kentucky Foundation for Women.

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Sculptor: Amanda Matthews
Dryad Series.
Bronze Casting, Transport & Install: Prometheus Art
Location of Original: Cincinnati, Ohio

Lilith, a leader to many and demon to others. Lilith chose a life among nature rather than submitting to the expectations of others. The original Lilith was made possible with a generous grant from the Kentucky Foundation for Women.

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Sculptor: Amanda Matthews
Dryad Series. Thuja, Tree of Life, was inspired by a found section of a cedar tree that expressed male and female qualities. Cast bronze and stone.

Sculptor: Amanda Matthews
Dryad Series. Thuja, Tree of Life, was inspired by a found section of a cedar tree that expressed male and female qualities. Cast bronze and stone.

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Sculptor: Amanda Matthews

Bronze Foundry: Prometheus Art

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Sculptor: Amanda Matthews
Bronze Casting, Transport & Install: Prometheus Art

Portrait of Dr. George Zack, Conductor Laureate of Lexington Philharmonic and Commissioned by the Lexington Philharmonic Guild. Permanently installed at the Singletary Center for the Arts, Lexington, Kentucky

Sculptor: Amanda Matthews
Bronze Casting, Transport & Install: Prometheus Art

Portrait of Dr. George Zack, Conductor Laureate of Lexington Philharmonic and Commissioned by the Lexington Philharmonic Guild. Permanently installed at the Singletary Center for the Arts, Lexington, Kentucky

The Philharmonic Guild requested that Dr. Zack be represented as he was 10-15 years younger than now. The image of him is current, but the clay is a younger Dr. Zack.

Sculptor: Amanda Matthews
Dryad Series. Athena is the goddess of wisdom, courage, inspiration, civilization, law and justice, just warfare, mathematics, strength, strategy, the arts, crafts, and skill. Athena is often shown with an owl or is depicted as an owl.

Sculptor: Amanda Matthews
Dryad Series. Athena is the goddess of wisdom, courage, inspiration, civilization, law and justice, just warfare, mathematics, strength, strategy, the arts, crafts, and skill. Athena is often depicted with an owl or as an owl.

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Lead Designer & Sculptor: Amanda Matthews
Lead Metal Fabrication: Brad Connell

Bronze Casting, Transport & Install: Prometheus Art
Location: Georgetown College

A Site-Specific Memorial honoring the life of Stephen Elrod, located on the campus of Georgetown College. A life size angelic form expressing forward and upward movement and quiet introspection. Cast and fabricated bronze on limestone plinth surrounded by a beautiful healing garden.

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Sculptor: Amanda Matthews
Dryad Series. Greek god of shepherds and flocks, mountains, hunting and rustic music, as well as the companion of the nymphs. He is recognized as the god of fields, groves, and wooded glens; because of this, Pan is connected to fertility and the season of spring. The ancient Greeks also considered Pan to be the god of theatrical criticism. Inspired by a section of horned, burl hard oak.

Sculptor: Amanda Matthews
Dryad Series. Greek god of shepherds and flocks, mountains, hunting and rustic music, as well as the companion of the nymphs. He is recognized as the god of fields, groves, and wooded glens; because of this, Pan is connected to fertility and the season of spring. The ancient Greeks also considered Pan to be the god of theatrical criticism. Pan sculpture inspired by a section of horned, burl hard oak.

Sculptor: Amanda Matthews
Dryad Series. Cast iron. Greek god of shepherds and flocks, mountains, hunting and rustic music, as well as the companion of the nymphs. He is recognized as the god of fields, groves, and wooded glens; because of this, Pan is connected to fertility and the season of spring. The ancient Greeks also considered Pan to be the god of theatrical criticism. Inspired by a section of horned, burl hard oak.

Sculptor: Amanda Matthews
Dryad Series.
Bronze Casting: Prometheus Art

Sculptor: Amanda Matthews
Dryad Series. Found wood and embedded jaw bones inspired the original design for this equine species relic.
Cast bronze.

Sculptor: Amanda Matthews
Dryad Series.

Dryad Series.

Sculptor: Amanda Matthews
Bronze Fabrication: Brad Connell
Bronze Casting: Prometheus Art
Transport and Install: Prometheus Art

Sculptor: Amanda Matthews
Bronze Casting: Prometheus Art
Transport and Install: Prometheus Art