Loveland is a true arts lover’s paradise the second weekend in August. The 40th annual Sculpture in the Park, the largest outdoor juried sculpture show in the United States, returns to Loveland Friday to Sunday, August 9 to 11, 2024. Considered a mecca of international talent, the annual show and sale transforms beloved Benson Sculpture Garden into an art lover’s dream come true with more than 2,000 sculptures created by 160 award winning artists from around the world for viewing and purchase.
Source: Sculpture in the Park / Cindy Mackin photo
Sculpture in the Park 2024 includes a ticketed Patron Party on Friday, August 9, and the public show and sale on Saturday, August 10 from 9:30 a.m. to 5 p.m. and Sunday, August 11 from 9:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m.
Tickets for the show and sale may be purchased at the gate for $10 (event entry is free for children ages 14 and under).
The Loveland High Plains Arts Council stages Sculpture in the Park. Patrons can peruse and purchase over 2,000 sculptures created in several mediums including bronze, stone, glass, metal, wood, ceramic, and mixed media.
Loveland’s Sculpture in the Park Show and Sale is unique because every visitor can meet and discuss art with the artist who creates it. Eighteen new artists will participate this year.
Sculpture in the Park attendees will have an opportunity to “take home a piece of the park” by purchasing maquette-sized (tabletop) versions of several permanent Benson Sculpture Garden sculptures.
The same weekend, Art in the Park happens across the street in North Lake Park on August 10 and 11. It is FREE to attend and includes nearly 250 vendors selling art in nearly every medium ranging from canvas to metals.
New Sculptures in Benson Sculpture Garden
Currently, there are 187 sculptures on permanent display by world renowned artists, worth an impressive $5 million.
Three new sculptures were installed this spring thanks to the revenue from last year’s event.
• “Forget Me Not” by Georgene McGonagle, a bronze stylized African elephant; installed spring 2024.
• “Strength of the Maker” by Denny Haskew, a Native American man bending a bow across his back, representing the strength of a higher power that created nature and man; installed spring 2024.
• “Ridge Runners” by Amanda Markel, wolves represent unity and the strength we gain from being in a community working toward a common goal; set for installation in 2025.
Additionally, the Loveland High Plains Arts Council received two generous donations that were added to the collection in spring 2024.
• “Venus di Milo” by Bruce Gueswel; donated by Loveland resident Cathy Sloan.
• “Majestic” by Robert Larum and Melissa Cooper; donated by the Larum and Cooper family in loving memory of Robert Larum. Melissa Cooper is a Sculpture in the Park artist who created this piece with her father, Robert Larum, a former Sculpture in the Park artist.