GAAC Sculpture Competition
Thursday, January 17, 2019
The Grundy Area Arts Council (GAAC) and the Mountain Goat Trail Alliance (MGTA) are pleased to announce the Old Roundhouse Park & Mountain Goat Trail Sculpture Competition for 2019. The GAAC and the MGTA seek proposals for site specific sculpture from Tennessee and regional artists. The goal is to provide an opportunity for regional artists to create a public work and to enhance the trail with sculpture of exceptional quality and innovation.
The Mountain Goat Trail is a rail-to-trail community outdoor recreation project to convert an abandoned railroad right-of-way into a multi-use recreational corridor between Grundy and Franklin Counties on the Cumberland Plateau in Middle Tennessee.
The Mountain Goat Railroad was constructed in 1853, as a spur of the Nashville & Chattanooga Railroad. It carried coal from the mines of the Mountain, beginning in Sewanee and then extending to Tracy City, Coalmont, Gruetli-Laager, and Palmer. It also functioned as a passenger railroad. The Mountain Goat was decommissioned in 1985. The Mountain Goat earned its name in part due to the climb up onto the Cumberland Plateau from Cowan. This was at the time the steepest slope in the world for a railroad line.
The location for the sculpture will be visible from the Mountain Goat Trail in the newly developing Old Roundhouse Park. The 2019 approved site will be central to the proposed completed trail. Works can be in any media, must be suitable for outdoors, must be “sit-able” and should be permanent. Entries should incorporate elements of the story and culture of the Mountain Goat and the Plateau region it served. The selected work will be announced in March 2019 and the finished work will be celebrated in June 2019.
This project is made possible with an Arts Builds Community Grant from the Tennessee Arts Commission. Proposals are due Feb. 15. The full application can be found at https://www.mountaingoattrail.org/2019-sculpture-c...
For more information email grundyareaarts@gmail.com