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Get outdoors, get active, AND get your art fix!Great sculpture is just a short walk away in Moorhead, MN.
The Moorhead Sculpture Walk encourages people to get outside and moving throughout the core of our city, whether by foot, bicycle, or other means. There is no right or wrong route to take: simply use the map above (or use one of the printed Moorhead Sculpture Walk maps) and start moving around Moorhead!
The importance of public sculpture
Great works of public sculpture become landmarks and part of a community’s identity. They’re attractions which help to draw visitors to a city or neighborhood and assert the spirit or character of the place. Public sculpture is sought out for appreciation and enjoyment for its own sake because they are unique works of art (not reproductions) created for a specific location: if you want to visit “Cloud Gate”, you have to go to Chicago; if you want to visit “Spoon Bridge and Cherry”, you have to go to Minneapolis. Similarly, if you want to visit “Breaking the Surface”, “Gogh – Bison – Go!”, “The Heritage Garden & Amphitheater”, or the numerous pieces at “The Sticks Garden”, you have to go to Moorhead. We’ve put these local public sculptures on the map (literally) for both residents and visitors!
The story of the Moorhead Sculpture Walk ... and it's future
Over the years, different entities, groups, and artists have worked independently of one another to create and make homes for outdoor sculpture all across Moorhead, MN. In response to the City of Moorhead’s Call for Activation funding opportunity, The Rourke Art Gallery + Museum proposed to organize a consortium of existing permanent sculpture sites in the city core of Moorhead to establish a sculpture walk. Since funding was awarded, local government departments and staff, non-profits, artists, and other institutions have banded together to establish what has become the Moorhead Sculpture Walk.
Now that it is established, the ambition of the Moorhead Sculpture Walk is to foster the creation of additional permanent outdoor art and sculpture sites throughout the city as we maintain and improve those already present. If you are interested in supporting these efforts in any way, please email: info@moorheadsculpturewalk.com