Sculptures in Downtown Maryville

Sculptures on the square are updated each May. Members of the design committee choose them through a partnership with Sioux Falls, South Dakota.

  • Conceptual Guitar by Jefferson Davis - Woodbine, Iowa

    Davis got his start in computer art and design at a very young age. After award-winning work in his youth had left him inspired, he found himself immersed in computer programming and graphic design at the University of Maryland. He applied these skills to post-production work and design for magazine layouts, logos, and cover art design. All the while, he was nurturing a growing passion for studying and designing furniture, particularly in the contemporary and modern style with minimal, clean lines.

    Jeff was uniquely drawn to elemental mediums, particularly steel, wood, and glass. He founded Elemental Design, Inc., a building and design business that has yielded custom homes, but ultimately focused on custom metal work, designing and building furniture, structures, and art for various restaurants, store-fronts, and private clients.

    In his sculptures, steel has allowed Jeff to explore repetitive and linear design without the restrictions of functionality, thus allowing the manipulation of balance without the limits of symmetry. His work is often inspired by scrap materials from other projects. The goal is a melding of materials to create movement while embracing the texture and substance provided by respecting blank space.

  • Prairie Tussocks

    Prairie Tussocks by Tim Adams — Webster City, Iowa

    Tim Adams is a 1985 landscape architecture graduate of Iowa State University and is a registered professional landscape architect. He owns Stony Creek Landscapes, Inc., Webster City, Iowa, a full-service landscape design/building firm. His career has been built around creating and installing “one-off” sculptures and designs for gardens, entry features, parks, churches, municipalities, and schools. Tim’s primary medium is weathered steel, stainless steel, aluminum, acrylic sheet/Lexan, and native limestone. To foster sustainability, Tim strives to incorporate recycled metals and repurposed materials when practical. His works are designed and constructed to be stout, long-term installations with little or no maintenance needed. His sculptures are displayed in numerous locations across the United States.

  • Going Home

    Going Home by Sondra Jonson — Cambridge, Nebraska

    Sondra Jonson began planning her career in art at the age of five. Her studio, established in 1985, has produced a large line of sculptures, from miniature to monuments, for clients throughout the United States and in Europe. Jonson, a Magna Cum Laude graduate of Bryn Mawr College, and a former student of EvAngelos Frudakis, has developed a signature style that is both classical and contemporary, powerful yet tender, always sensitive to form, color, and message.

    Jonson was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, and studied at the Philadelphia College of Art, the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, the Centro de Estudios Hispanicos in Madrid, Spain, and graduated from Bryn Mawr College and the Frudakis Academy of Art.

    Now in her 27th year as a professional sculptor, Jonson has established her reputation as a master of human figure and portraiture. Her sculptures always display skillful craftsmanship while looking deeply into the human story. She has competed and placed in national and international competitions, including the Oklahoma City Memorial Competition, and has sold bronzes to collectors across the United States and Europe.

  • Ecstatic

    Ecstatic by Jeff Satter — Sioux Falls, South Dakota

    Jeff Satter was born and raised in Sioux Falls, South Dakota. He grew up with design in his head and was at the top of his art school class with geometrical application and excelled in architectural design and stonework design. Satter entered the sculpture world in 2017 with his first piece being placed on display in SculptureWalk in Sioux Falls. His sculptures are primarily constructed with stainless steel. Since beginning his sculpture work, Satter has created 33 sculptures which have been displayed at: the University of South Dakota; University of Sioux Falls; Watertown, South Dakota; Sturgis, South Dakota; Eau Claire, Wisconsin; Attica, Indiana; Mankato, Minnesota; Mason City, Iowa; Webster City, Iowa, and Maryville.

  • Welcome Dance

    Welcome Dance by Harold Linke — Lake Oswego, Oregon

    Every sculptor starts sculpting wax and clay, sometimes stone. Harold spent a decade there, copying centuries-old techniques and messages, paying dues. But, never-before methods and materials and messages stood in a room down the hall called The Future. He never took an art class but all those engineering problem sets really paid off. He was in his element — design of things that never were. He could sculpt the now, not the before.

    Linke dove into 3D simulations, 3D printing, carbon-fiber composites and polygonal surfacing—totally new ways of sculpting. These new tools give him opportunities for wispy thin-shell sculpture, huge forms which defy gravity, and the uncomplicated ability to adjust and modify everything for more beauty. He now creates never-before, wispy, joyful, heroic, gravity-defying white gestures. He calls them Swoopies.