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Here are the 10 painted pigs and the 6 piglets that adorned the Burlington Common in the summer of 2024. Most are still in town

Here is a video with ALL 16 of the winning painted pig tributes, starring the pigs AND many of the actual winners of the tributes.

On Friday, August 30th, we will be arranging ALL of the painted pigs in front of Town Hall for a giant group portait. EVERYONE is

Saturday, June 22, 2024 the Pigs on Parade will be open for viewing in the town center on the town common. It will be a

The call for entry has gone out to sculptures everywhere for new works for the Burlington Sculpture Park. The call is shown on Online Juried

Saturday, October 28, we hosted the Red Trouser Show at the Sculpture Park. Kids painted pumpkins, all materials supplied! People got free churros from cafe

We have gotten a limited number of special Dog-n-Cat sculptures from Dale Rogers, who create Havoc and the Lovebirds. These are available while supply lasts,

Thaddeus (Tad) Stephanak from BCAC, Burlington’s Cable Access channel, reaching out to the sculptor of Global Warming to find out how things are going during

We created a children’s song for the Welcome Back party for Follow Your Heart. Here is that song in video form and you can download

The Sketch a Sculpture event was quite a success, in spite of the cold and rain! Many hardy families showed up and kids of all

When there is fresh snow on the ground and sun comes out, Seraph the sculpture throws lovely blue colors on the snow. Of course, the

The tall blue sculpture called Seraph has been gifted to the Town of Burlington by sculptor Joseph Ferguson. It took lots of work by Sculpture

For a while we had no more steel puppies, but right in time for the Holidays, the Dale Rogers Studio had a whole new litter!

The Ice Cream Social on August 20 was a great success on all fronts.  Khara from Kaleidoscope Entertainment delighted dozens of kids with ballon animals.

The spirited young person telling us all to follow our hearts – is back.  After a nice cleaning and paint refresh, Follow Your Heart is

These young ladies, Emma and Charlotte, were inspired to dance along with Meadow Dancer while their mom captured the moment. We encourage everyone who wants

All the new sculptures in the park now have temporary paper and foam core signs up. The “real” metal signs are on order but they

On Thursday, July 14th, sculptor John Bonsignore brought his lovely work, Toe Dancer, to Burlington and we installed on its new concrete base. Come and

On Wednesday, July 6th, Burlington’s DPW oversaw the pouring of three new concrete bases for sculptures. Two of the bases will host new works (stay

On Friday, June 17, Stephen Klema, assisted by his wife Patty Weise, drove from their home in northwest Connecticut, 3 hours to Burlington to assemble

On Saturday, May 14, 2022  members of the Burlington community gathered at the Sculpture Park to celebrate the town’s purchase of Global Warming, the popular

Members of the Burlington community organized a vigil for Ukraine at the Sculpture Park. On Friday, March 18, 2022, people gathered in support of Ukraine

The other day we happened on a mother and two daughters visiting the sculpture park. The older daughter was picture shy, but the younger was

Through the generous donations of local business leaders and citizens we have collected enough funds to purchase the popular sculpture Global Warming, know as the

Sculpture Park Committee Chair Barbara L’Heureux gave a report on the progress of the Sculpture Park to Burlington Town Meeting on February 16th, 2022. She

The call for entries for the next round of sculptures for the Burlington Sculpture Park is now open through the website Online Juried Shows. Sculptors

Here is a short video look at the Performing Art in the Park event on November 6th. https://vimeo.com/643753908 A gallery of images from the day…

The Burlington Sculpture Park unveiled a new sculpture at the park at 9 am on Saturday September 4, 2021.  The latest addition to the sculpture

There will be a number of great reasons to visit The Burlington Sculpture Park during Celebrate Burlington Day on Saturday, August 7th. We will have

Stone sculptor Joshua Ruder did a talk and demonstration to a group of Girl Scouts, Boy Scouts, and interested kids at the Sculpture Park. He

Stone sculptor Joshua Ruder continues his work creating stone benches from boulders this week at The Sculpture Park. https://burlingtonsculpturepark.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/06/June-22-teaser.mov

https://vimeo.com/556715557 This short video shows Burlington’s DPW Highway Crew moving boulders into place for sculptor Joshua Ruder to create three stone benches in the Burlington

Havoc’s puppies came to visit the Sculpture Park and had many adventures which we were fortunate to capture on video. The puppies are sculptures made

Someone asked last summer, “What will happen when it snows on the sculpture?” We suggested they will be enhanced by the snow, beautiful in new

Here is the BCAT video about the announcement of Havoc as the new name for our edition of the Great American Dog sculpture by Dale

The winner of the Dog Name Contest was revealed at a small ceremony right at the American Dog sculpture. The winning name is “Havoc”, who

THE VOTES ARE IN! With over 960 votes from the community, a new name for the American Dog sculpture has been chosen!  The name and the

WITH A DRAMATIC SURGE, HAVOC TAKES THE LEAD!!! The race closes this Friday, October 9th at 5pm.  Go vote, but only vote once! VOTE FOR

While Burly took a strong early lead, Burlingdog is coming up as a strong challenger! The race closes this Friday, October 9th at 5pm.  Go

The 6th and final work of our first phase has arrived and been installed at the park. Global Warming by Nikita Zigura is now in

Here is an October voting race just for fun! As of October 1st, here is the voting for the name for the Big Dog: Art:

After very many emails back and forth to Ukraine, our 6th sculpture, the giant yellow cherries, called Global Warming, arrived via air freight to Logan

The Boston Globe has published a lovely online article about our sculpture park which will be in print this Sunday, September 6th. The photo of

The Burlington Union published a good, comprehensive article about the Burlington Sculpture Park. Writer Veer Mudambi did a great job of taking the rather complex

BCAT, Burlington’s cable access television, has visit the Sculpture Committee meetings, interviewed member and Selectman Nick Priest, and videoed installations. Here is their piece about

Chris Plaisted’s sculpture Endeavour will be installed at the Burlington Sculpture Park on Saturday, August 1st. While COVID and construction safety concerns prevent us from

On Friday, July 31st, Philip Marshall came to Burlington and – single handed – installed his graceful steel work Next Stop Shibuya.  You can hear

On Thursday, July 30, 2020, we installed our second sculpture, the colorful red work, Follow Your Heart, by Mark Wholey. You can hear Mark talking

With lots of help from the Burlington DPW, we installed the very first sculpture on Friday, July 24. Peter Dellert worked with DPW to move

Here is a video of the day we mocked up all sculptures in cardboard to check on best locations.