“ There’ s kind of a groundswell now of people coming back to the arts, of it not being the first thing cut out of the budget,” Galloway said.“ Public art that people can experience, not in a museum, is something that they want to try to promote.”
Chris Trotter, the chainsaw carver at the Wooden Wonders shop in Antique Alley, has entered the conversation, turning a bank of exposed tree roots on the new Salt Creek Trail into a welcoming bench with a giant hand and forearm providing the backrest.
He also created the large figure of Brown County icon Abe Martin, carved from the trunk of a tree that used to overhang Franklin Street near the Old Ferguson House, and also the giant horse behind his shop at the corner of Old Hickory and Honeysuckle lanes.
“ Anytime we can kind of open people’ s eyes a little bit, get them thinking about art more— that’ s a good thing,” Martin said. •
Jim Connor’ s bench at the library, Chris Trotter’ s Abe Martin, and William Galloway’ s Dancers.
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