Three Monumental Sculptures for the Omni Lobby Louisville, KY

Three Monumental Sculptures for the Omni Lobby Louisville, KY

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.

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.

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.

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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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Sculptors & Conservators: Amanda Matthews and Brad Connell, Prometheus Foundry, LLC

Amanda Matthews & Brad Connell created and executed the months long, in-depth, EPA-guided plan to repair and conserve this historic monument (cast with a bronze lead alloy) for the Lexington Fayette Urban County Government in Lexington, Kentucky.

Iconic Gratz Park Sculptures in the James Lane Allen Fountain located in the heart of Lexington, KY and originally erected in 1933. Prometheus Foundry, LLC was contracted by the Lexington Fayette Urban County Government to remove, repair and conserve the historic sculptures, rock base, plinth, and bronze plaque and reinstall them several months later. Please see Monument Restoration Page for more information.

Sculptors & Conservators: Amanda Matthews and Brad Connell, Prometheus Foundry, LLC

Amanda Matthews and Brad Connell created and executed the months long, in-depth, EPA-guided plan to repair and conserve this historic monument (cast with a bronze lead alloy) for the Lexington Fayette Urban County Government in Lexington, Kentucky.

Iconic Gratz Park Sculptures in the James Lane Allen Fountain located in the heart of Lexington, KY and originally erected in 1933. Prometheus Foundry, LLC was contracted by the Lexington Fayette Urban County Government to remove, repair and conserve the historic sculptures, rock base, plinth, and bronze plaque and reinstall them several months later. Please see Monument Restoration Page for more information.

Image courtesy of Transylvania University.

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Sculptor: Brad Connell

Custom sculpture for Lextran Headquarters in Lexington, KY

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.

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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

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

Prometheus Foundry, LLC cast the life-size bronze portrait of Jim Beam for the Jim Beam distillery. Ben Bartlett was the clay sculptor on this project.

Prometheus Foundry, LLC cast the life-size bronze portrait of Jim Beam for the Jim Beam distillery.

Ben Bartlett was the clay artist on this project.

Located at Jasmine Hill Museum, Montgomery, AL

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 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

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Sculptor: Amanda Matthews

Bronze Foundry: Prometheus Art

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

Architectural Drawings 1-2
Sculptor: Amanda Matthews
Bronze Fabrication & Casting: Brad Connell
Architect: Pearson & Peters Architects, PLC

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

Rendering and poster for Bronze Signs for Dorsey Alston Realtors, Peachtree Lane, Atlanta, Georgia

Dorsey Alston Bronze Signs
Atlanta, Georgia

Atlanta, Georgia

Dorsey Alston Bronze Signs
Atlanta, Georgia

Ft. Stewart, GA Warriors in Transition

Steel, Cast Bronze, and Plaster.

Design & Sculptor: Amanda Matthews
Sculpture Casting: Amanda Matthews & Brad Connell
Bronze Fabrication: Brad Connell
Installation: Prometheus Art, Brad Connell & Amanda Matthews

Side view of plaque on Baptismal Font.

Overhead View of Baptismal Font with water flowing.

Bronze Design, Casting, Transport, & Installation: Prometheus Foundry, LLC

Foundry hired sculptor Ben Bartlett to sculpt clay pattern.

Bronze Design, Casting, Transport, & Installation: Prometheus Foundry, LLC

Foundry hired sculptor Ben Bartlett to sculpt clay pattern.

Sculptor: Shelly Hunter
Bronze Casting, Transport, & Install: Prometheus Art

Sculptor: Shelly Hunter
Bronze Casting, Transport, & Install: Prometheus Art

Sculptor: Jaime Corum
Bronze Casting, Transport, & Install: Prometheus Art

Sculptor: Karen Kasper
Bronze Casting: Prometheus Art
Each year the Class Awards are slightly different.

Sculptor: Karen Kasper

Bronze Casting: Prometheus Art