Stone Quarry Hill Art Park

Stone Quarry Hill Art Park is a public, outdoor art park located in Cazenovia, NY. It consists of 108 acres of land and over four miles of hiking trails. Founded by Dorothy and Robert Riester, it became an official venue in 1991 and is one of the first art parks to be established in the United States.

The Art Park serves a dual mission: preservation of the land, and the creation and exhibition of works inspired by the relationship between art and nature. It showcases both established and emerging artists including sculptors, installation artists, performance and 2-dimentional fine artists. Its venues include permanent and visiting outdoor installations, the Winner Gallery and an artist in residency program. In addition, the park hosts several annual events including the Syracuse Ceramic Guilt Pottery Fair, and Kite Fest. Its educational program hosts demonstrations and lecturers, as well as a children’s summer camp. The park is operated by a small hired staff, a working Board of Directors, and volunteers.

 

History

Stone Quarry Hill Art Park is located in Central NY. Cazenovia was established in 1793 by Col. John Linklaen. In the 1840’s the quarry was opened, giving the area its name today. The foundations, hedgerows and a few apple tree plantings make up the “Homestead Site,” the oldest remains on the property. This was the site of the early 19th century farm of Mary Hackley. Edwin and Gulda Clark united the land briefly in the 1920s. The Riesters made their first land purchase in 1958, which included the then uninhabited hilltop. From 1959-1965 they worked on building a house on the hilltop. Dorothy designed the house, shaped like a cone on its side, in keeping with the contours of the hill and considering the wind direction and bedrock of the land. The Hilltop House is a work of art in itself, much of it hand built by the couple. It is complete with a six-walled library and music room, a greenhouse plant room, handmade tiles for the kitchen and bath, sand-casted walls and fireplace, concrete work and painting, all entering from an ivy-inhabited Genkong. An A-frame art studio was also built to accommodate Dorothy’s practice. In 1970 the site began its path as a place of artistic activity with the addition of the Art Barn studio, which became a base for the Syracuse Ceramic Guild. The studio was equipped with electric, salt and raku kilns, and has hosted lectures from ceramicists including Franz Wildenhain and Daniel Rhodes.

 

Current pieces( not including those of Dorothy Riester) :

Barbara Andrus – resident in 2007

Reiko Aoyagi - Flow 2006, earth

Dianne Banks – Layers of Time 2005, tape and hay

Emilie Brzezinski – Spruce Echos 2005

Ene Osteraas-Constable, and Scott Constable – Mary Hackley Treehouse 2002

Charles Frazier – Effendi

John Fitzsimmons – With Quiet Eyes 2007

Frank Gonzales – Gnomen 1995, steel 17.75’ x 9’ x 18’

Rita Hammond – My First Leica, bronzed Leica camera

David Harper – A Tree Fell 2005, found wood, welded steel

Sook Jin Jo – Meditation Space 2000 168" x 162" x 150" metal, wood

Jonathan Kirk - Archimedes' Principle 1998, galvanized steel 48" x 120" x 102

Eva Lapka – Inamoviblita 1994 ceramic

Dariusz Lipski – Induction

Enriquo Lopez-Chicheri – Blizardo Diablo steel, concrete

Rodger Mack – Hallelujah Handel, Jazz Getz and Jazz Diz

John McCarty – Gray Eminence/Tremblay

Carl Reed The Outlyers

Steven Siegal – Facing Love 30 1999, newspaper and trees, 12’x 20’x 17’

Denise Stillwagon Leone – 9/11 Memorial 2004, glass, steel, wood

Takashi Soga – Silent Beam 2001, painted steel, 11’ x 27.25’ x 11.6’

John VonBergen – Dervish and Grand Camore III 2007 welded steel

Pat Warner – Woodland Nostalgia 2002

Matthew Weber - Tile Cone Stacks 2005, salvaged clay roofing tiles, six stacks, variable diameters x 3’ high

Susan Winks – Earth and Air

Al Zaruba – The Scent of Light and Grotto 2006

 

Past artists:

 

Michele Brody

Daniel Buckingham

Patrick Dougherty

Jeanne Drevas

Beth Galston

Michael Gaurd

Fritz Horstman

Wendy Klemperer

Bruno Laverdiere

Zoran Mojsilov

Houben RT

John Ruppert

Hugh Tifft

Lorraine Weglarz

Gail Scott White

Cindi Harper

Gligor Stefanov

 

 

References:

(1) http://www.stonequarryhillartpark.org/about.htm

(2) Art and the Land Dorothy Riester, 2006.

(3) Art and the Land Dorothy Riester, 2006.

(4) Art and the Land Dorothy Riester, 2006.

External Links:

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www.its-allhere.com/sculpture-open-air [[[2]]]

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