Public Sculpture
 WILD believes in the power of art to inspire, inform, and
engage. Moreover, art can also communicate conservation
messages and promote positive attitudes and actions for wild
nature.
While planning the 8th World Wilderness Congress (Alaska,
2005), we initiated a project to select and install a gift
of public sculpture to downtown Anchorage, host to the 8th WWC. We worked with a wide consortium of collaborators in
the arts from throughout Alaska, including the Mayor of
Anchorage, representatives from museums and galleries, and
private collectors. A committee reviewed proposed sculptures
from around the state, and ultimately selected
Rachelle
Dowdy’s piece.
 It
was installed on the Key Bank Plaza in central, downtown
Anchorage, in June 2006. It has since become an Anchorage
icon, a whimsical and evocative series of four sculptures -
-half animal and half human -- around which children play,
and tourists have themselves photographed.
For a slide show of images of the
8th WWC’s gift of public sculpture >>>
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