Southside Sculpture Fields adds value to city

One summer I stood before Henry Moore’s “Sculpture Form with Cut” located in Florence, Italy. Through the empty space in the cut, my eye caught the view of the Duomo. Since then, Chattanooga has become a city of sculpture. With classical sculptures near the Market Street Bridge, the sculpture garden in the Art District, and the Ed Johnson Memorial, our city offers a variety of forms from Chattanooga State to the Sculpture Fields.

John Henry’s vision for this space is still in flux as a terraced amphitheater creates space for poets and musicians to perform in open space. The Education Committee continues to prepare lesson plans for schools and hopes to make space for rotating student sculptures and teaching sculptors.

In this age of Instagram, we need a natural space for visual education. A welcome center will be that creative place where visitors will be able to learn and see how the elements of clay, metal, aluminum and earth shape vision and form.

From “Keystone in Space” to “Anchors,” the eye is continually challenged with wonder and beauty calling out new abstract thoughts.

Sculpture Fields preserves the idea of a public park and contemplative space on the Southside.

Kemmer Anderson