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Artwork Commemorating Cherry Blossom Festival, Japanese Lantern Sculpture

Date created: March 20, 1983

Category: Memorials/Tributes ; Outdoor Sculpture ; Sculpture

Hanami is a Japanese celebration where people celebrate the flowering of the Cherry Blossom trees. The celebration originated in Japan, yet the celebration has been able to inspire Macon, Georgia to have a similar celebration with identical trees....

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Carolyn Crayton Park Pond Statue

Category: Outdoor Sculpture ; Sculpture

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Chewy

Date created: 2006

Category: Sculpture

Chewy is a public art sculpture that is made up of twisting forms of brightly painted tubular steel. This sculpture piece was designed and created by the artist John Clement. IThis art is not the only one of its kind. He has made several other...

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Circles in the Park

Date created: 2014

Category: Outdoor Sculpture ; Sculpture

A permanent public art installation created by Kathy Wright in Coleman Hill Historic Park.

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Clay Reptile Benches

Category: Functional Artwork ; Outdoor Sculpture ; Sculpture

TBD

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Confederate Memorial for Men of Bibb Co.

Date created: 1879

Category: Sculpture

The Confederate Memorial to Men of Bibb County has been standing watch in downtown Macon since 1879. The unnamed man represents those killed during the Civil War between 1861 and 1865. As many as 45,000 people packed downtown Macon on October 29,...

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Eagles at Terminal Station

Date created: 1916

Category: Sculpture

The eagles are perched on top of the columns of the Terminal Station building. They have all been recently returned to the station. Macon's 1916 Terminal Station, at the foot of Cherry Street downtown, is Georgia's grandest surviving railroad...

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Espíritu de libertad

Artist: Flaminio Antonio

Category: Sculpture

Created by Flaminio Antonio Located on 563 D T Walton Sr Way From Flaminio Antonio: “My scrap metal Harley Davidson built entirely with discarded parts, the double head engine is made with scrap elements that I incorporated for its own assembly...

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Heart of Friendship

Date created: 1975

Category: Outdoor Sculpture ; Sculpture

Abstract heart shape with a sense of suspension. It was fabricated in 1975 at Georgia Steel here in Macon as a gift from the YKK Corporation to the people of Macon in appreciation for their friendship and support. Condition as of January 2014: Shows...

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Holy to the Power of God

Date created: unknown

Category: Sculpture

It is a gateway arch leading to the cemetary with a height of about 12ft. The arc is suppored by two smaller arches which are painted. The letters are located across the main arch, in the middle. Condition in 1993: good Condition in 2014:

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I Love Macon Sculpture

Category: Outdoor Sculpture ; Photo Spot ; Sculpture

I Heart Macon sculpture in Daisy Park. The M design was inspired by the “I Love Macon” campaign in 2012 that a group of young community leaders created as a way to encourage people who live in Macon to focus on the positive aspects of the...

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Middle Georgia's Veteran Memorial

Date created: November 11, 1988

Category: Memorials/Tributes ; Outdoor Sculpture ; Sculpture

“In honor of the men and women of the Armed Forces of the U.S. who served in WW!, WWII, Korean, and Vietnam” is the inscription on the monumant. There are six black granite columns on either side of the larger red granite column which holds the...

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Monument Commemorating the Fourth Anniversary of the Signing of the Armistice

Date created: November 1922

Category: Historical ; Memorials/Tributes ; Sculpture

The Monument Commemorating the Fourth Anniversary of the Signing of the Armistice is “In memory of those of the 151st Machine Gun Battalion.” In France, the 151st Machine Gun Battalion where soldiers came mostly from three Macon companies of the...

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Monument to the women of the Confederacy

Date created: June 3, 1911

Category: Historical ; Outdoor Sculpture ; Sculpture

The beautiful women's monument erected in 1911 has the inscription "Erected to the memory of the women of the south by their husbands, fathers, sons and daughters." It displays women nursing the sick and spinning thread for the Confederacy. A bas...

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Musical notes sculpture

Category: Outdoor Sculpture ; Sculpture

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Ocmulgee Bear

Category: Outdoor Sculpture ; Sculpture

The Ocmulgee Bear, painted by Ivey, Georgia artist Denise Kiefer, is also known by the title “Spirits in the Sky.” This bear, which is the only seated bear of the group, features a vibrant night sky revealing a Native American spirit watching over...

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Otis Redding Sculpture

Category: Functional Artwork ; Mixed Media ; Outdoor Sculpture ; Sculpture

Installed in September of 2002 in Gateway Park with the conjoining efforts of the NewTown Macon organization and the Redding Estate, this musical sculpture of the late crooning legend commemorates his musical success that began right here in Macon....

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Owl Tree Carving

Date created: 2015

Category: Outdoor Sculpture ; Sculpture

Carved from an 100-year old deodar cedar tree stump in Tattnall Square Park by wood sculptor Chris Lantz. Chris Lantz work in collaboration with Friends of Tattnall Square Park to figure out what to transform the old tree stump into.

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Peace

Category: Outdoor Sculpture ; Sculpture

An abstract Hand making a peace sign sculpture made by Alex Mendez

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Peyton Anderson Statue

Category: Outdoor Sculpture ; Sculpture

The Peyton Anderson Statue commemorates Peyton Took Anderson Jr. (1907-1988). By 1951, Peyton Tooke Anderson, Jr. (1907-1988) of Macon, Georgia, owned his own newspaper, its building, and its press. The Telegraph and News had a reputation as an...

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Ruins and Rituals

Date created: 1979

Category: Outdoor Sculpture ; Sculpture

North Carolina-born artist Beverly Buchanan’s first outdoor installation, Ruins and Rituals, can be found on the Sweetgum Trail at the Museum of Arts and Sciences. This series of concrete structures speaks to mythology and memory, recalling tombs...

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Stamp Bear

Category: Outdoor Sculpture ; Sculpture

The Stamp Bear was created by Macon artist Heatherly Wakefield (formerly Darnell), with the help of her then husband-to-be Eric Wakefield. Painted to look as if the bear had been covered in postage stamps, the Stamp Bear is fittingly located across...

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Tattnall Park Bear

Category: Outdoor Sculpture ; Sculpture

The Tattnall Park Bear was created by Macon artist Connie Redd and was inspired by Tattnall Square Park and the skyline of Mercer University which borders the park. Located directly across the street from Mercer’s campus, this bear signifies the...

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The Georgy Award

Category: Outdoor Sculpture ; Sculpture

This giant replica of the Georgy Award, an award created annually by Tiffany’s for inductees to the former Georgia Music Hall of Fame, stans on the corner of Mulberry Street and Martin Luther King Jr. Boulevard. Prior to the summer of 2011 the...

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