Introducing ‬Renaissance by Jane DeDecker
Her latest bronze sculpture is available at an introductory price thru August 6th. Order online at Columbine Gallery home to the National Sculptors' Guild

"Renaissance, or by definition “rebirth,” mystifies me conceptually, in that the act of being reborn can only be spiritual or ethereal.   I have a yearning for this particular thought in my life at this time.  This piece speaks about the beauty of emergence, the baptism of change, and the acceptance of a higher transcendence.  Botticelli describes this so beautifully in his fresco The Birth of Venus.   My family and I were traveling in Florence shortly after this fresco had been cleaned and its radiance has been haunting me since.  Only until now have I been moved to recreate sculpturally the beauty of the shell as a vessel with its rhythms created by time -- a figure holding dear the willingness to accept the virtues of a higher realm." - Jane DeDecker, National Sculptors' Guild Fellow
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National Sculptors' Guild placed fellow Jane DeDecker's "Lemon Drops" on the south side of Alva, Oklahoma's downtown square. An unveiling ceremony was held on May 1, 2015 in downtown Alva revealing the bronze "Lemon Drops" by Jane DeDecker. Order an Alva Lemon Drops bouquet

02/15/2015: National Sculptors' Guild fellow Jane DeDecker's Sherlock Holmes has come to life in clay. She has completed the maquette and monument, ready for casting in bronze.

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: November 2004
photo credit: Jafe Parsons Photography

SEVEN SCULPTURES RECENTLY PLACED BY THE COLORADO BASED GROUP NATIONAL SCULPTORS’ GUILD IN LITTLE ROCK, ARKANSAS CLINTON PRESIDENTIAL CENTER ENTRY AND SIGNATURE SCULPTURE AT LITTLE ROCK NATIONAL AIRPORT LITTLE ROCK, AR – Six bronze sculptures by National Sculptors’ Guild members left the bronze casting foundries in Wyoming and Colorado November 5th strapped to a 40-foot flat-bed truck headed along the Arkansas River to Little Rock, AR. The artwork installed later that week and was dedicated Sunday, November 14th at 2 p.m. as a portion of the Formal Pedestrian Walk from the River Market Shops to the new Clinton Presidential Center at 3rd & Clinton Avenue.
An additional sculpture preceded the Clinton Entry artwork, installed at the National Airport in September, 2004. All sculptures are by National Sculptors’ Guild Members and were presented by the NSG Executive Director, John W. Kinkade to a panel. Since the dedication, the City of Little Rock immediately began discussions of future placements from the Colorado-based organization which specializes in placing monumental sculpture across the nation.
The sculptures were created by National Sculptors’ Guild members Jane DeDecker of Loveland, CO; Carol Gold of Fairfax, CA; and Sandy Scott of Lander, WY. The artworks were selected from the proposal presented by NSG Executive Director, John W. Kinkade. Kinkade chose to pull key elements from President Clinton’s speech “Bridge to the 21st Century” to organize the progression to the library. He proposed numerous individual concepts by 14 national sculptors reflecting each theme. The Little Rock committee chose the six final artworks.
The artwork speaks to Arkansas’ quality of life and thematic subject matter derived from President Clinton’s speech “Bridge to the 21st Century”. Sandy Scott’s “Eagle of the Rock” will be placed on Clinton Avenue and “River Market Pig” will be placed at the Farmer’s Market to provide the start of a pedestrian transition from River Market to the Clinton Presidential Center, subsequently, a sculpture will be placed every 200 yards, Jane DeDecker’s “Touch the Sky”, “Anglers” & “Harriet Tubman” and Carol Gold’s “Fiesta”. (Artist Resumes and a further explanation of sculpture and placements attached)
The library placement follows the recent installation of fellow National Sculptors’ Guild member, Mark Leichliter’s sculpture “Encircling the Future”. The artwork was one of the original proposed works for the Clinton Center but was instead selected as the signature sculpture for the Little Rock National Airport in Arkansas. Leichliter of Fort Collins, CO completed the 16-foot tall
powder-coated steel sculpture in August. "I created the piece last year as a smaller sculpture," Leichliter explained, "The National Sculptors' Guild proposed the piece to the City of Little Rock who considered it for the new Clinton Library before deciding that the sculpture would best serve to welcome visitors arriving at the Little Rock airport."
The National Sculptors' Guild is an association of its design team and nationally recognized sculptors chosen for their outstanding artistic abilities and varied style with the primary objective to conceive and seek out monumental placements for members' work. Columbine Galleries serves as headquarters and home to the NSG and its’ sculpture garden, featuring some of the nation's finest monumental sculptures. 2683 N. Taft Ave., Loveland, Colorado 80538.
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Preliminary Proposal by John Kinkade and the National Sculptors' Guild, 2003
For the Placement of Art
On the Pedestrian and Vehicular Approaches to the
William Jefferson Clinton Presidential Library
 
 
“. . .we need to build a bridge to the future, and that is what I commit to you to do.
 
So tonight let us resolve to build that bridge to the 21st century, to meet our challenges and protect our values. Let us build a bridge to help our parents raise their children, to help young people and adults to get the education and training they need, to make our streets safer, to help Americans succeed at home and at work, to break the cycle of poverty and dependence, to protect our environment for generations to come, and to maintain our world leadership for peace and freedom.
 
Lets us resolve to build that bridge.”
 
From President Clinton’s acceptance speech at the Democratic National Convention, August 30, 1996.
 
After a very informative meeting with Bryan Day and Mark Webre of the Parks and Recreation for the City of Little Rock, we approach this project with two objectives: to visually enhance the approaches to the Clinton Library and to visually lead people to the library. 
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Pedestrian Walkway and Controlled Service Drive
​This walkway provides a path where the viewer may be able to pause and refresh in quietude in a more natural situation along the River Front Park. It will be enhanced with small public squares in the shape of ellipses approximately 60 feet by 40 feet punctuating the path every 200 to 300 feet. These squares become 'public rooms'. With appropriate sculpture, they entice the pedestrian to proceed to the next square which is within visual proximity enough to see that there is another sculpture to experience. The squares should be a few hundred feet apart. The final square is within visual proximity of the Presidential Center. Placing a sculpture roughly in the middle, but with ample room to allow for the service drive, gives the square a strong and steady pulse that draws people. The squares would ideally have outdoor seating in shaded locations. This of course means that consideration should also be given to tree plantings and raised flower beds with seating walls. It is anticipated that this initial walkway will have four squares. Each square is an ideal location for the proposed sculpture.