The Arts Festival’s collaborative sculpture project has been one of the most talked about features of the annual festival. Inspired by Chicago’s Cows on Parade, the fifth annual festival was celebrated with 17 five foot tall “FIVES” adorned with the messages and missions of almost two dozen campus groups. Since then, the campus has been adorned with giant umbrellas (Umbrellas in the Midst 2004), stacked trees (The Enchanted Forest 2005), artful flames (Go Set the World Aflame 2006), and huge masks (Carnival Masks 2007).
Since the “FIVES” were such a success in 2003, we always knew that we would use the Roman numeral 10 – “X” – for the project in the tenth year of the festival. “At first I wasn’t sure about the fives, but as I was building them, I loved the simplicity of the form,” Mark Cooper (sculptor and Fine Arts professor) recalls. And since then, as we have discussed and debated various themes each year, we always knew that the “X” was a certainty for the tenth. “X marks the spot”, claims Fine Arts Professor and Arts Council Chair, Jeffery Howe. “Reaching our tenth year with so much success is quite an accomplishment. The form of the sculptures provides the perfect exclamation point for our tenth year.”
Mark Cooper will build the basic sculpture, and campus organizations can design and embellish them to promote their group’s mission. Once completed, the sculptures will appear in buildings throughout campus and will come together to form an exhibition on O’Neill Plaza during the Arts Festival. This is a great opportunity to promote your organization on campus and to the community using your collective creativity. You could even win prize money!
Adopt a TEN and make it your own.
Decorate it! Sparkle it! Paint it!
click here to see sculptures for inspiration
Download the following documents:
Application Information 08
Sulpture Application 08
Sculpture Agreement Letter 08
For questions, please contact the Arts Council office at 2-4935 or arts@bc.edu. Applications are due Wednesday, December 5 by 5:00 P.M. to Devlin Hall, Room 434, Fine Arts Department.
Explore your creativity! Promote your organization! Reveal to the community your message!
