Holt Community Arts Council  | PO Box 231, Holt, Michigan 48842 | holtarts@holtarts.org

Projects

With its first two projects, the recently-formed Holt Community Arts Council is announcing its presence in a big way. The council’s first project is a community-built, temporary sculpture, to be constructed in conjunction with Delhi Township’s POTW Division. The second is to oversee the creation of a permanent sculpture that will be installed at the southeast corner of Cedar Street and Holt Road.

"Build Gill"

This temporary sculpture—a colorful, three-dimensional blue gill, will be the focal point of this year’s Water Quality Awareness Week Open House and Re-Use Rally, which will take place on Saturday, May 10, 2008, at the Delhi Township Recycling Center.

The Gill sculpture will use even more detergent bottles than were used to build this "bottle bug" at a school in New York.

On the day of the open house, you can help attach a few of the approximately 2,500 empty laundry detergent bottles to a pre-built frame that will be 25-feet long and 15-feet high.  Students throughout the Holt Public School District are currently collecting empty bottles and will also help build Gill.

The afternoon event also will feature smaller arts and crafts activities, as well as musical entertainment, arranged by the Holt Community Arts Council.  All open house activities are open to the public and free.

Permanent Sculpture

The second sculpture in the works will not be as big as Gill, but it will be just as visible, given its prominent location at one of Holt’s busiest intersections. The Delhi Township Downtown Development Authority is working with Lansing’s Landscape Architects & Planners to redevelop a corner of the Cedar Street and Holt Road intersection that is considered to be overgrown. The new landscape design calls for the installation of a permanent sculpture that would be visible from both roads, as well as from the courtyard of the adjacent Crystal Bar.

Conceptual drawing of the south east corner of Holt Rd. and Cedar St. where the permanent sculpture will be placed.

The Holt Community Arts Council has been charged with commissioning an artist to create the sculpture, which would be installed in August or September of 2008. The arts council is actively searching for potential sculptors and hopes to find one locally.  If you know a local artist who would like to be considered for this project, please contact the arts council at holtarts@holtarts.org.

Future Projects

Other projects in development include a summer music series to be held at Veteran’s Memorial Park in downtown Holt, an essay contest, and working with Delhi Township to establish a permanent artist exhibit/event space in the newly-announced Holt Farmer’s Market, tentatively set to open this summer.

 

To affect the quality of the day, that is the highest of arts.  - Henry David Thoreau                                                                 Without art, the crudeness of reality would make the world unbearable.  - George Bernard Shaw                                                                 Art is not made for anybody and is, at the same time, for everybody. - Piet Mondrian

 

©2008 | Holt Community Arts Council  | PO Box 231, Holt, Michigan 48842 | holtarts@holtarts.org