Chicago-based artist William O’Brien, front, and a crew of workers install three related sculptures in May at Flossmoor Park, Brassie Avenue and Flossmoor Road. They’re among the newest pieces public art in Flossmoor, where officials are holding an auction this summer to help fund upkeep of the growing collection. Flossmoor has long been a center of public art, as one can see by driving around the village, noticing the many sculptures.
Pieces of art designed by local artists — including one by Flossmoor Mayor Michelle Nelson — will be auctioned this month to raise funding to support the permanent and rotating exhibits. There, you will find 34 pieces of art on which to bid. They range from small to large, all with a garden art theme. There’s even art you can sit on. Burrows created 16 items for the auction.
“The other piece that is getting a lot of play is a downtown scene painted on an Adirondack chair that the mayor, Michelle Nelson, built and painted. She’s very talented,” Burrows said. Downtown architecture, sculptures, flowers “for our green commission,” and “the LGBTQ flag for how welcoming and inclusive we are here in town” are incorporated in the scene.“In military time, that’s 19:24, the date of our establishment. It’s our 100-year anniversary,” Nelson said.
The public art program in Flossmoor was established in 1998 through private donations and an Illinois FIRST grant.
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