Goodale Park Fountain to be Installed This Winter (Click here to read the entire article)
A project nearly seven years in the making will come to a close next spring as the Goodale Park Fountain comes to life in the middle of the park’s pond. We recently sat down with local sculptor Malcolm Cochran, the artist who designed the fountain, to learn more.
Walker Evans: It sounds like this has been a pretty long process since first initiated. Can you give us a bit of the history behind the project?
Malcolm Cochran: There was a call for artists in the summer of 2004 and it was the kind of competition where people were selected on the basis of previous work. I think there were four artists selected to do proposals including myself.
WE: This was through the Friends of Goodale Park?
MC: Yes, Friends of Goodale Park partnering with Brick Street Art Association, because Friends of Goodale Park didn’t have the experience of working on any kind of public art project and Brick Street had some experience, although it was young organization.
So, I was selected and made my proposal and those were presented to the selection committee which included people like Rob Livesey, who at the time was head of the Architecture School at OSU, Sherrie Riley Hawk from the Sherrie Gallery, and other people from the neighborhood. That group selected my proposal.
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