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M2M Installation
in Riverside Park South
June 2011 Through May 2012

Model to Monument: Creating Art for Public Spaces

Model to Monument (M2M) is a five-year partnership with the New York City Department of Parks & Recreation. M2M trains artists to produce work for public spaces and brings contemporary sculptures to hundreds of thousands of New Yorkers and visitors. The program is led by  Greg Wyatt, League instructor and sculptor-in-residence at St. John the Divine.

The  second year of Model to Monument training is now underway, with new works to be installed in Riverside Park South in June 2012.

M2M is rooted in the understanding that monuments made for public spaces go through an extensive process of refinement,  from early design phases to  final full-scale sculptures. From the time of the Ancient Egyptians and Greeks to the Italian Renaissance, sculptors have begun their projects with sketches that progress into small scale maquettes (models). Those models are re-worked, large-scale designs are created, work is fabricated, and finally the sculptures are installed as a realized public monuments.

In June 2011, the first year of the M2M culminated with the unveiling of of seven monumental sculptures by an international group of League artists in Manhattan’s Riverside Park South and a collaborative sculpture, Mask, in Van Cortlandt Park in the Bronx.

Click here  for a site map to for currently installed sculptures in Riverside Park South

 
Year two of Model to Monument is currently underway with seven new sculptors. Their work will be installed in June 2012. To support the program, or for more information, please contact Logan Metzler at  212-764-7900 or  Ken Park at 212-247-4510, ext. 165, or kpark@artstudentsleague.org

M2M Year Two

Year two of the Model to Monument program continues to build on the success of its inaugural year. New sculptures are currently being fabricated for this June's final installation in Riverside Park South in Manhattan and Van Cortlandt Park in the Bronx. Click on each image below to see the 1/3 scale maquettes for each new piece.

M2M Year Two: Press Release            M2M Year Two: Video and Artist Bios
 

Proceeding Being by HakSul Lee Existence Within by Olga Rudenko Cope by Damien A. Vera
     
Red Arches - 2NM by Roberto Franzone Watching Upon the Present by Sequoyah Aono Coalescence by Renata Pugh
     
   
  Hardcovers by Michael Cloud Hirschfeld  

 


 Video From M2M Year One

This four-minute video shows the impact of the first year of the Art Students League's Program "Model to Monument: Creating Art for Public Spaces.

The site-specific collaborative monument created for the people of the Bronx in Van Cortlandt Park reflects the sites new use as a space for outdoor theater. Watch the video below to see the construction and installation of "The Mask" featuring the artists of M2M. More M2M video.


 

  M2M In The News

Media coverage of the first year of M2M reached 5 million readers and viewers, from coverage in all five major New York City newspapers and television outlets FOX, CBS, NBC and NY1.

Model To Monument New York Times

The New York Times writes about the challenges of public art and M2M's preparation of artists.

The Bronx Free Press covers the unveiling fo Mask, M2M's collaborative twelve-foot tall aluminum and steel sculpture in Van Cortland Park.

Watch NY1's coverage of the opening, and read about what some those involved had to say about the project.
   Model to Monument Sculptor Noa Shay  

Newsday covers the M2M opening, as Riverside Park is transformed into an "open-air museum."

The New York Daily News previews the Riverside South installation and interviews sculptor Noa Shay.

This image of M2M sculptor Akihiro Ito made it to The Wall Street Journal's "New York Photos of the Week" page.

The Wall Street Journal also featured this image of Akihiro Ito installing his sculpture "Forever." View a slideshow of the M2M opening and tour the sculptures at DNAinfo.com.

Read about the installation of Forever, a 13-foot piece by M2M sculptor Akihiro Ito, at DNAinfo.com: Manhattan Local News.

     

Watch the M2M bronze pour on NY1.com

The New York Times covers the bronze pour at Modern Art Foundry

Article in the Riverdale Review about the collaborative monument "The Mask"

Coverage in American Artist July/August 2011 issue

Coverage in the Gothamist

Coverage in DNAinfo.com

   

Coverage in the The West Side Spirit

   
 

 

 

 

 

 

 

  
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