Highland Center for the Arts Adorns a Snowy Trail With Sculpture in Greensboro
Johnson artist Harlan Mack has sited three of his earlier works along the trail. "Bear Suit," crafted from bike parts, won the 2016 Upcycle Art Bike Competition grand prize from Catamount Arts and Kingdom Trails. The other two, "Giraffe" and "Granilla," are among the first sculptures Mack made, in 2006. Welded scrap-metal creations, they appear remarkably animated; the latter, a gorilla, reaches out a friendly hand from his perch on a preexisting fieldstone. Rusted metal parts come together in a graceful abstraction, titled "Celestial," by Underhill sculptor Thomas Douglas, used stainl...