September 24, 2009
In the spring and fall Associate Professor Todd McGrain, art, unveiled two sculptures as part of the Lost Bird Project--a series created by the artist focusing on extinct birds.
A 540-pound bronze sculpture of a Labrador duck was intalled at Brand Park in Elmira, New York . The park was chosen because it is the site of the last known spotting of the wild duck on December 12, 1878.
The other sculpture, Alca Impenne, was installed at the Zoological Museum of Rome in Italy.
The figures in the series took five years to complete; each will be installed at locations throughout the globe that were central to the decline of the particular bird. Other statues are of the passenger pigeon, the Carolina parakeet, the great hawk, and the heath hen.
