Art On A Grand Scale: Day Trip To Calder Show

DANBURY — On Saturday, September 29, Wooster Community Art Center (WCAC) will visit Storm King Art Center, a leading outdoor sculpture park and museum in Mountainville, N.Y., to see “Grand Intuitions: Calder’s Monumental Sculpture.” This is one of the largest exhibits of monumental sculptures by Alexander Calder ever assembled at one site.

Participants will travel to Storm King by chartered bus from WCAC, at 73 Miry Brook Road in Danbury. There are 18 sculptures installed outside on the grounds and six in the museum building, along with 24 models (maquettes) and archival photographs.

“Grand Intuitions” illustrates Calder’s growing fascination with monumental sculpture and shows his creative process in developing these works. According to guest curator Alexander S.C. Rower, grandson of the artist, Calder was commissioned to create large-scale, outdoor sculptures in the 1950s as a counterpoint to the simplified, elegant structures then produced by European and American architects.

John Pindyck Miller, a WCAC teacher and sculptor who himself has exhibited at Storm King, will give a guided tour lasting approximately 90 minutes. After that, participants will be free to lunch in the picnic area, visit the museum, and visit other permanent pieces in the collection.

Reservations are requested by September 23. Cost of the bus is $25 per person, and then group entrance fee is an additional $7 for adults, $3 for seniors and $2 for students.

For further information or reservations, contact WCAC by calling 744-4825.