Details

Title

NEA Statement-Section of Sidewalk from Paradise Garden

Artist/Maker

Howard Finster (American, 1916–2001)

Date

1981

Medium

Concrete embedded with rocks, plastic, glass, marbles, ceramic and metal chain

Dimensions

3 x 41 x 62 1/2 inches

Credit

Purchase with funds from the Cousins Foundation, Inc. and donors to the Paradise Project Campaign

Accession #

1994.217

On View

On View - Stent Family Wing, Skyway, Gallery 407

In 1981 Finster received the first grant the National Endowment for the Arts had ever awarded to a self-taught artist. Finster used it to buy a small abandoned church at the rear of Paradise Garden and to add more embellished sidewalks throughout the Garden. The building became The World’s Folk Art Church, an archetype of Paradise Garden. In this section of sidewalk Finster celebrates the award.