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.
Click here for a slide show of images of the 8th WWC’s gift of public sculpture
