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The Council on Culture & Arts (COCA) and the Tallahassee Downtown Improvement Authority (TDIA), with funding from the Knight Foundation Fund at the Community Foundation of North Florida, are pleased to announce the launch of Sculpture Scape TLH, a two-year outdoor sculpture exhibition celebrating the natural beauty, culture, and history of Tallahassee. Sculptures are and will be installed in various downtown TLH locations in August 2025 for a display period of two years. See detailed location, artist, and artwork information below!
Please contact COCA’s Public Art Manager, Sam Joslin, at sam@tallahasseearts.org
Jim Weitzel
Swallowtail
Steel and copper
Location: between South Adams Street and College Ave
About the artist: Jim Weitzel grew up outside of Cleveland, Ohio. He has been creating art and mastering the craft from an early age. He attended the Columbus College of Art and Design in Columbus, Ohio graduating with a bachelor’s degree in Fine Art in 1979. This gave Jim a traditional fine arts education and a strong foundation in both classical and modern art. Jim has been pursuing his passion for art, in a variety of forms, ever since.
Jim’s passion for art has grown along side his career in the mental wellness and recovery field. His decades long contributions to this field include working as a Resident Artist and Senior Recovery Coach at two campuses of a local healing community facility. He is continuing his career serving and guiding individuals recovering from addiction at Pavillon in Mill Springs, NC.
Jim’s studio is located in Forest City, North Carolina, where he lives and works. His creative talents are multi-faceted but he is currently concentrating his skills on metal sculpture and custom furniture creation. Jim and his sculptures have been published numerous times in local periodicals, including The Daily Courier and Cornelius Today. His work can also be found featured on Houzz. He exhibits in shows and galleries, both regionally and throughout the country.
Jeff Whipple
The Reader
Polyurethane foam, GFRC concrete, concrete stain, acrylic paint, and UV resistant protective clear coat
Location: between South Adams Street and College Ave
About the artwork: This sculpture is meant to inspire children to read. It shows a young boy being lifted up by a book. That could be about how a book leads readers to new places, or shows them new things, or allows their imaginations to soar. The base is a stack of books which help launch him in his reading flight.
About the artist:
Since 1980, Jeff Whipple has had 86 solo exhibitions in galleries, colleges and museums including the Tampa Museum of Art, the Gulf Coast Museum of Art, the Museum of Art, DeLand, and the Boca Raton Museum of Art. His art has been in dozens of group exhibitions across the USA and has received 51 top awards in competitions.
Whipple will have a 50-year retrospective at the Leepa-Rattner Museum of Art in Tarpon Springs, Florida in the fall of 2025. The show will travel to the Spartanburg Museum of Art in South Carolina in 2026.
He received an MFA in Painting from the University of South Florida in 1980. He has taught at several colleges including Arizona State University, Florida State University, and Northern Illinois University.
Jeff Whipple lives in a 12,000 square foot warehouse studio in Jacksonville, Florida.
Kevin Curry
Quotidian
Wood and Fiberglass
Location: Doug Burnett Park
About the Artwork:
Quotidian is a site-relevant, portable, interactive series of sculptures and installations engaging contextual dialogues concerning society, history, and place. By placing opening and closing quote marks at various locations, everything between the two becomes relevant, including the subject/title of the piece.
Locations will be chosen to frame American culture’s stereotypical, true, and assumed aspects.
The objects or installations serve as nonjudgmental participants—flaneurs or voyeurs, as opposed to pontificators of fact or opinion.
Artist Statement: My work is a form of mapping involving my search for place, identity, and connections. This multidisciplinary exploration embraces the ‘do-over’ while embracing the overlooked, hidden, and forgotten aspects of our culture and lives. The reinterpretation of language, memory, and information is crucial as I document the lost, discarded, preserved, and relished while breathing new life into forgotten narratives.
