ARTISANS
Carroll Creek Kinetic Art Promenade displays eight kinetic sculptures year-round in the segment of Carroll Creek located east of East Street, Downtown Frederick, Maryland.
Each year, as originally planned and to continuously introduce new sculptures in our kinetic exhibit, we rotate sculptures away after they has been displayed for three years.
We are proud to present our artisans and their creations along with their respective sponsors/owners since we started our project in 2020!
April 2024
Agriculture
Designed and fabricated by Thomas Sterner
The theme and title of this kinetic sculpture for Carroll Creek is ‘Agriculture’. It depicts a magical portrayal of a larger-than-life cornstalk (10 feet tall), the plant floating in space with its root system exposed. This sculpture emphasizes the importance of agriculture in our community, in a simple and beautiful way.
The plant has many interesting features depicted in great detail. The root system is well defined and provides an important symbol of support and nourishment to this agriculture theme.
Agriculture has been displayed since April 2024.
For information about the artisan, please click on Thomas Sterner (Artisan pictured below)
Where Eagles Soar
Designed and fabricated by Tim Beachley
Expressing strength and freedom, Where Eagles
Soar is a 10-foot-tall aluminum and stainless steel
kinetic sculpture spanning 8 feet. Its wings are
powered by an original chain-driven mechanism
propelled by wind-catching wheels and well-
positioned bearings. Reflecting the sun to enhance
its lifelike appearance, the sculpture symbolizes
our enduring spirit.
Where Eagles Soar has been on display since April 2024.
Artisan Tim Beachley
In Spire
Designed collaboratively with Sponsors/Owners Ann & Ric Adams and fabricated by Erin Aylor
Displaying historic landmarks of Frederick, “In
Spires” is a 6-foot-tall, 6-foot-wide kinetic sculpture
made of mild steel representing famous silhouettes
of buildings and monuments located in our city.
Using durable paints and finishes, it creates a variety
of shades to emulate depth and shadows. The
s-shaped sculpture catches the wind, rotates, and
has solar lighting to accentuate its silhouettes.
In Spire has been on display since April 2024.
For information about the artisan, please click on Erin Aylor (Artisan pictured below)
April 2023
Blooming Life
Created by Davide Prete
Symbolizing nature in blooming forms and colors, this captivating sculptural flower is composed of three series of counter revolving painted aluminum petals connected to a stainless steel curved stem. It spans 6 feet in diameter and reach 6 feet above the water where its reflection amplifies its spinning colors and merges with the surrounding environment.
Blooming Life has been displayed since April 2023.
For information about the artisan, please click on Davide Prete (Artisan pictured below)
We Rise By Lifting Others
Designated collaboratively with Marlene Young and fabricated by artisan Kirk Seese
Four silhouettes vibrantly colored to express diversity and inclusion, rise in unison and lift others to higher levels. It is made of shaped cold-rolled steel, painted with enamel coatings, reaches 10 feet above the water and spans 5 feet in width. This well-balanced sculpture spins in the wind and chimes soothing music.
We Rise By Lifting Others has been displayed since April 2023.
For information about the artisan, please click on Kirk Seese (Artisan pictured below)
Tranquil Dance
Created by Thomas Sterner
Smoothly revolving while randomly flexing and twisting, this pair of nature leafy stems creates an elegant lifelike dance in the wind. Made entirely of stainless steel heated to achieve a variation of colors, it stands 10 feet tall and spans 5 to 9 feet as it moves and rotates. Its 3 articulating joints work together and in opposition and use gravity as a second kinetic force thus generating unpredictable movement.
Tranquil Dance has been displayed since April 2023.
For information about the artisan, please click on Thomas Sterner (Artisan pictured below)
April 2022
Together As one
Created by Thomas Sterner
A tridimensional stainless steel school of over 130 fish, each ranging 6-16 inches in length and rotating freely on its own axis, Together As One is shaped as a large 12-foot long fish colored with iridescent gradient finishes, swimming and bobbing upstream while creating undulating waves in the wind.
Together As One has been displayed since April 2022.
For information about the artisan, please click on Thomas Sterner (Artisan pictured below)
April 2021
Orbital Dance
Created by Erin Aylor
Reminiscent of Old Frederick Maypole dancers performing in unison to recognize the changing seasons and cycles of life, Orbital Dance represents water dancers circling in unison to celebrate spring and new beginnings under an orbiting solar system. The ten 24-inch tall dancers are created from various metals in a variety of colors and textures to express inclusivity and acceptance of all people. The kinetic sculpture spans 8 feet in height and 6 feet in width.
Orbital Dance has been displayed since April 2021.
For information about the artisan, please click on Erin Aylor (Artisan pictured below)
Rotary Lotus
Designed by Rotarian Bernard Gouin, illustrated by Charles-Etienne Gouin, and fabricated under the leadership of Rotarian Doug Fauth
Designed to induce peace, serenity, and a contemplative state, Rotary Lotus is a four-level counter-revolving kinetic sculpture expressing our internal movements in a holistic perspective. It is made of aluminum petals with welded wind-catching cavities and is crowned at the top by a ring of aluminum wind-catching pistils. The artwork is powder-coat painted, spans 6 feet in height, 9 feet in width, and reaches 8 feet above water.
Rotary Lotus was displayed on Carroll Creek starting in April 2021. In 2024, Greg Light generously donated the sculpture to Frederick Health Village, where it is presently displayed.
Pictured below from left to right, Rotarian artisans Doug Fauth and Bernard Gouin
Murmuration
Created by Marguerite de Messières and Tsvetomir Naydenov
Honoring the weight of loneness, the beauty and power of community, and the bright tenacity of hope, Murmuration was designed to be reflective and emotional. It is made of a weather-sealed mild steel structure with thousands of small colored aluminum tiles strung on a swirling grid steel wire and using high quality bearings. The kinetic sculpture spins, flips, and twists smoothly in the breeze over the surface of the water, shimmering and flickering in a silvery ethereal cloud. The artwork spans 12 feet in width and reaches 10 feet above water.
In 2024, Murmuration was removed from our kinetic exhibit and is now displayed privately.
For information about the artisans, please click on Marguerite de Messières and on Tsvetomir Naydenov and for their artwork done in collaboration, please click on Margot & Tsetso (Artisans pictured below)
Water Lily with Dragonfly
Created by Thomas Sterner
Designed to express beauty and simplicity, Water Lily with Dragonfly is a shiny light-reflecting sanded stainless steel floral kinetic sculpture with wind-catching petals and integrated solar powered lights. Using a planishing hammer technique, the artisan created strong concave petals and also heated the stainless steel at selected areas to add yellow and blueish hues. The sculpture has two aligned and smooth-turning interior thrust bearings, spans 8 feet in width, and reaches 8 feet above water.
Water Lily with Dragonfly was displayed on Carroll Creek starting in April 2021. In 2024, Carmen Hernandez and Manny Casiano donated the sculpture to Frederick Health Village, where it is presently displayed.
For information about the artisan, please click on Thomas Sterner (Artisan pictured below)
March 2020
AN ELUSIVE KINETIC PORTRAIT
Created by Marguerite de Messières and Tsvetomir Naydenov
A silvery kinetic art sculpture gently rotates above the water. A breeze creates soft clinking sounds and sets a thousand colorful aluminum tiles in motion. As the wind strengthens, the shimmering grid reveals the ghostly portrait of Theophilus Thompson, a 19th-century Frederick native considered the earliest documented African American chess expert in the United States.
An Elusive Kinetic Portrait was donated in 2023 by the Ausherman Family Foundation to Frederick Health Village, where it is presently displayed.
For information about the artisans, please click on Marguerite de Messières and on Tsvetomir Naydenov and for their artwork done in collaboration, please click on Margot & Tsetso Artisans pictured below – Photo Bill Green – FNP)
Three Little Birds
Created by Erin Aylor
An inspiring kinetic art sculpture displays a dynamic 9-foot tall and 8-foot wide tree made of mild and color-reflecting stainless steel, and merges nature and imagination. Above the tree is a 12-foot wide mobile pole with two suspended flying birds sculpted of copper and flamed finished. A third similarly designed bird quietly rests on the tree.
Three Little Birds was donated in 2023 by Ann and Ric Adams to Frederick Health Village, where it is presently displayed.
For information about the artisan, please click on Erin Aylor (Artisan pictured below – Photo Bill Green – FNP)
TREE of LIFE
Created by Thomas Sterner
This intricate 10-foot tall and 9-foot wide kinetic art sculpture features seven rotating sets of branches along its central trunk, and includes 87 animals representing all phylum classes. Each 6”-12” tall and wide silhouette was drawn by the artisan, laser cut from flat steel, shaped (concave/convex) to capture the wind movement, and then hand-painted on both sides.
Tree of Life was retired in 2023.
For information about the artisan, please click on Thomas Sterner (Artisan pictured below – Photo Bill Green – FNP)
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