

Client: City of Little Rock
Location: Little Rock, AR, United States
Completion date: 2017
Artwork budget: $60,000
Project Team
Artist
Stephen Shachtman
National Sculptors' Guild
Art Consultant
John Kinkade
JK Designs, Inc
Overview
Fabricated in CorTen steel, with a Bronze cap at the point of each pillar. The tallest form measures approximately 16-feet high. The overall footprint will span approximately 10ft wide. The center sphere is composed of stacked flagstone pieces which create the stepped sphere form. (Not a perfect smooth sphere, but stepped to create sphere appearance.) The sphere structurally helps connect the three legs, which are then bolted into cement piers.
Goals
This sculpture represents a culmination of parts forming a stronger, more impactful unit as a result.
The graphic nature of the sculpture is ideal for both ease of viewing while in motion and creating an iconic sculpture for the Community Center campus. Because this site incorporates so many activities and houses several public buildings, the convergence of this is represented in this form - a central piece acts as the hub of all the opportunities the campus offers.
At the heart of the three steel forms is a sphere representing the community. The Steel/Bronze portion of the “A” represents Arkansas. While the individual pieces of the flagstone sphere make up my notion of its people.