Video: Kent State Christens Sculpture Mile Along Esplanade

The figurative ribbon was cut this morning on the Sculpture Mile by officials at Kent State University and the artists who created the first four works along The Esplanade.

The artists, their works and locations are:

• Cleveland sculptor Giancarlo Calicchia – The piece, titled Athleta, is part of Calicchia’s series The Witnesses. The stones used in the piece were all created from boulders left behind after the glaciers retreated. Calicchia excavated the granite monoliths, some as deep as 12 feet, from his vineyard and surrounding farm in Madison Township in Lake County.

• Kenyon College art professor Barry Gunderson of Gambier, OH – His piece is called Eye to Eye and is a response to the human mind and how it works. It also is a tribute to the Department of Psychology.

• Susan Ewing, associate dean of the School of Fine Arts at Miami University and resident of Oxford, OH – Her piece, titled Starsphere 2010, relates to the First Amendment of the Constitution and is aptly located near the School of Journalism and Mass Communication at the north end of Franklin Hall in the University Esplanade Circle.

• Sculptor Jarrett Hawkins of Deer Park, OH – His abstract piece, Limits of Spoken Language: Congeries, made of Corten Steel is located in Risman Plaza (the plaza in front of the Kent Student Center).