About the Artist
Terese Agnew began her art career as a public sculptor. Her early work included several temporary installations that engaged hundreds of people from the general public in the art making process. Her permanent works include The Wisconsin Workers Memorial in downtown Milwaukee at Zeidler Union Square (1995), created in collaboration with Mary Zebell: The centerpiece of the memorial is a bandstand made of salvaged gears, tools and iron-cast fixtures of the modern workplace. In the dome of the structure is a huge clock that stands still, a reference to the time given at work. Paths that ring the park are lined with a series of sculptural bollards and chains with panels that tell the stories of working people.
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Her most recent public work (completed in 2002) is 35 large concrete sculptures of tree stumps arranged as an informal amphitheater at the Sharon Lynne Wilson Center for the Arts in Brookfield, Wisconsin. The work honors the natural history of the site and the way in which people have always used available materials in the landscape to gather around storytellers, musicians, dancers or plays.
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