Last year, in celebration of our 25th anniversary, we reached out to the community to make sure all of you knew about Sculpture Evergreen. We participated in the Evergreen Rodeo, in summer art festivals, in the Summer Lake Concerts, and in other community events. We installed a new permanent sculpture: Oliver, and commissioned another: the Peggy Fleming Tribute. It was a busy year, and a lot of fun. Your response was incredible. We found so many fans and supporters among you, it was a bit overwhelming (in a good way!).

In discussing what to do to make this year special, our Board came to unanimous decision. This year is about saying thank you. We want you all to know how much we appreciate your support, your involvement, and your continuing enthusiasm for our sculptures and our efforts.

In light of the Covid-19 crisis, we are especially thankful to live in a community that cares.

In an ordinary April, we are beginning to ramp up for a very important part of what we do - the deinstallation of the current Sculpture Walk, and the installation of the new Sculpture Walk, which has always occurred on the first Friday and Saturday of June. Each year we look forward to sharing a whole new set of sculptures with you, and to celebrating the artistry of the sculptors. But this is not an ordinary year, and we have had to reconsider our plans in order to keep our artists and our community safe.

We have decided to keep the 2019-2020 Sculpture Walk in place for another year. This means that we will forego our usual deinstallation and installation and associated events, we will pay the current artists to keep their art for another year, and we will postpone bringing in new art until June 2021. It was a difficult decision, as we all look forward to seeing new sculptures and meeting new artists. Some of the artists with pieces now on display may need their art back (so far only one has told us that this is the case), so we may have an empty spot or two. We had a great selection of new sculptures lined up for 2020-2021, and are hopeful that most of the artist whose art was selected will be willing to come back a year later.

We couldn't possibly have conceived that this would happen, and it is just one more example of how we are having to adapt to daily disruptions and changes in our lives. We felt that this was the best solution, and hope that you will all find time to get to know our current collection even better now that it will be here a bit longer than expected.

Sculpture Evergreen is pleased to share with you a video of many of our Permanent Sculptures. We will be updating the video this year to include recent additions to our collection. You can watch the video on youtube.

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