MIDDLETOWN, Calif. – The 12th annual EcoArts: Lake County Sculpture Walk will mark its grant opening and “Arts Happening” on Sunday, June 8.
The event, which takes place from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m., is free and open to the public.
The 2014 theme is “In Dialog with Nature.”
Each year the EcoArts: Lake County Sculpture Walk puts nature and art together for a free-to-the-public, ecology-themed walk-in-the-park displayed at the Middletown Trailside Park off of Highway 175.
It attracts dozens of exhibiting artists and thousands of viewers annually.
Last summer more than 3,000 people enjoyed 20-plus original sculptures along the park trail, in the quiet of the pristine woodlands and meadows, and the fresh air rated as being the nation’s cleanest in 2013.
Right now artists are preparing and installing work for this year’s exhibit. Twenty-eight wildly different creations by award-winning artists, community groups and schools will extol, enhance and utilize the park’s oak-forested trailsides to provoke a deeper appreciation of nature’s fragility, resiliency, beauty and magic.
Visitors may encounter strange hobbit holes and mossy habitats peeking through the leaves in a grotto, while around the next turn fish rendered from discarded plastic bottles choke in a dried-up creek bed.
Elsewhere you might discover giant balls comprised of dead twigs that look like mutated porcupines rolling across a dry field, a rusted kid’s bike poking out of hardened mud, or wind-chimes from natural materials hanging from branches and blending wind and sound in a combination that creates both art and music at the same time.
Most sculptures are too sublime to be described in words, but all add up to a profound experience.
The EcoArts: Lake County Sculpture Walk is organized by volunteer artists and art appreciators, and lasts all summer until Oct. 13.
EcoArts' organizers and artists hope the community will join them at the grand opening to stroll the trail and meet the artists, enjoy poetry readings by local poets including Lake County Poet Laureates past and present.
There also will be music and dance performances featuring Shawn SanNicolas of Sound Barn Studio, Sheamus Kennedy and Friends, the children of Lake County International Charter School, the Lake County School of Performing Arts and A Silk Road Groove and the W’Nac’di Drum Circle.
Other offerings will include an art-making tent, and crafts and snack vendors.
Bring water and wear comfortable shoes. Parking is plentiful and picnic tables are available.
For more information please contact This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. or call 707-809-5398.
Find EcoArts on Facebook or visit www.EcoArtsofLakeCounty.org .