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Animal sculptures encroach on Sonoma Plaza
The Sonoma Valley Museum of Art’s latest outdoor art exhibit opens June 8 and several of the works were installed on the Plaza Tuesday morning, June 5. The exhibit, “Natural Affinity: California Women Sculptors in the Landscape,” features the works of Gwynn Murrill, Alison Saar and Lisa Reinertson.
The museum invites the public to a celebration of public art and picnic in the Sonoma Plaza on Friday, June 8 at 5:30 p.m.
“BYOP (bring your own picnic) and we’ll bring the wine!,” said museum Executive Director Linda Keaton.
The reception will take place in the southeast corner of Sonoma Plaza, with remarks from the museum, the city, and artists starting at 5:30 p.m., followed by Sonoma Valley Chamber of Commerce ribbon cutting.
In a proposal reviewed by the City Council in March, Keaton pitched – and the council unanimously supported – a second season of “conceptually rich artworks that will encourage public dialogue and engagement.”
“Natural Affinity: California Women Sculptors in the Landscape” – an exhibition featuring, according to the museum, “a shared concern for the natural world as well as human-animal interests concerning friendship, love and the parent-child bond.”
“The fact that it’s California artists and they’re all wo
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Sam Houston Park
Sources: City of Houston site and Houston Arts Alliance site
ALEXANDER HODGE MEMORIAL
Title: Alexander Hodge Memorial Artist: Unknown Date: 1908 Type: Monument, plaque Medium: Stone Location: Sam Houston Park Collection: City of Houston Art Collection
A carved stone monument, the Alexander Hodge Memorial was placed in Sam Houston Park by the Lady Washington Chapter of the Daughters of the American Revolution. It commemorates Alexander Hodge as “a hero of two republics” and refers to him as “one of Marion’s Men.” The stone was dedicated in 1912. Click here to see image.
According to the Texas State Historical Association, Hodge was born in Pennsylvania and moved to South Carolina as a teenager. He served in the American Revolution under the Swamp Fox, Francis Marion. Following the war, he passed the Georgia bar and worked as an attorney. Over time, he moved through several areas of the American South, met Stephen F. Austin, and joined him as one of the original Austin colonists. When Texas declared independence from Mexico in 1836, his sons went to war, and Hodge undertook leading the women and children to safety on the Runaway Scrape. After the Battle of San Jacinto, they returned to their homes, but he had become ill during the Scrape
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