New art installation arrives at the Woodcock Nature Center on the Wilton, and the Ridgefield border

New art installation arrives at the Woodcock Nature Center on the Wilton, and the Ridgefield border

A new art set up has a short while ago arrived at the Woodcock Nature Middle, located at 56 Deer Run Road in Wilton.

Many thanks to the attempts of the Friends of Weir Farm National Historic Park, one particular of the 7 life-dimensions Centennial Artwork Bison has observed its new dwelling at the Character Heart.

The Centennial Art Bison was earlier established to commemorate the U.S. National Park Service’s 100th anniversary in 2016. As of late January, the bison art sculpture has identified its new dwelling and has been fully set up at the Woodcock Nature Middle.

The piece of art is located on a hilltop that overlooks the wetlands and the forestry lining the southern finish of the Character Center’s preserve together its orange trail.


In accordance to the Character Middle, the Artwork Bison is a picket lifetime-measurement silhouette of an American bison that is coated with the paintings of Weir Protect artist Sperry Andrews, produced in 1985.

Andrews was an integral portion of a person of three generations of artists who previously lived and developed their art at Weir Farm.

The Art Bison had been formerly positioned through Weir Farm’s historic landscape from 2016 to 2018. At that issue, the bison was not covered with watercolor paintings.

A quantity of decades after it was initally highlighted, the statue was then coated with paintings from the a few generations of artists who lived, and developed artwork at Weir Farm.