The community in invited to celebrate the installation of two public sculptures commissioned by the Sun Valley Center for the Arts for its recent Craters of the Moon project—John Grade’s Spur and Jason Middlebrook’s Homage to the Limber Pine. A ribbon-cutting ceremony at the reinstallation site of Grade’s sculpture will take place at 4pm, Saturday, October 15, along the Wood River Trail in Ketchum. Located at the fork in the Wood River Trail just south of Serenade Lane. Guests should park in the Lower River Run parking lot and walk approximately one-third of a mile south along the bike path.

Grade and Middlebrook’s sculptures were installed earlier this year at Craters of the Moon National Monument as part of a larger exhibition presented by The Center during the centennial year of the National Park Service.

Artist John Grade will be present at the ribbon-cutting ceremony alongside Ketchum mayor Nina Jonas, members of the Ketchum Arts Commission, the Blaine County Recreation District, the Idaho Foundation for Parks and Lands as well as patrons and friends of the Sun Valley Center for the Arts. The October 15 event is free and open to the public, and light refreshments will be served.

Sponsors:
The Sun Valley Center for the Arts has received support for Craters of the Moon from The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts, the City of Ketchum and numerous private donors. The project was supported by a grant from the National Endowment for the Arts under the “Imagine Your Parks” initiative, a grant established in recognition of the NPS Centennial. In addition to financial support, numerous partners have helped make this project possible, including the National Park Service (and their staff at Craters of the Moon National Monument), the City of Ketchum, Idaho Foundation for Parks and Lands, the Blaine County Recreation District and other public and private partners.