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