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Sculpture Fields at Montague Park is always a memorable and remarkable experience no matter what season you visit. The park’s moods are fantastically mercurial.
But when Montague Park comes alive with a special event, it’s a true celebration with amazing music, tasty fare from food trucks, beer and liquor tents, playful kid activities and other stunning entertainment.
Sculptures in the Sky, April 23, 12 - 5pm, 2022
High flying family fun returns to the skies above Sculpture Fields at Montague Park on Saturday, April 23 from 12 noon until 5pm with the return of Sculpture in the Sky!
Partnering with River City Kites and with support from Crystal Air and Prime Imaging, come and view colossal kites, stunt kites and Rokkaku battle kites in action.
In addition to kites, visitors will enjoy music, activities and there will be local food trucks and a beer tent. Visitors can purchase a kite onsite, make one or just bring your own for 5 hours of family flying fun!
Free and open to the public, donations are always appreciated. Click for more details.
Past events
Spring Into Sculpture
4th Anniversary and Colossal Sculpture Burn
October 17*, 2020 - 5:00 pm
Spring Into Sculpture is back May 2 as Sculpture Fields celebrates it's FOURTH Anniversary. Enjoy Chattanooga’s family friendly art extravaganza with live music, fire dancers, a laser light show, all culminating in the amazing Sculpture burn! We're furiously working away on the details to make this year our best birthday yet! We'll have entertainment, food trucks, fine art, live music, and best of all: YOU!
*All timings are tentative and subject to weather, lighting, and timing of other events.
Special VIP tickets coming soon. Follow the event on Facebook to keep up to date!
Mainx24: Aluminum Pour and East Main Block Party
$25 to Participate, Free to Watch
Drive on down to Sculpture Fields (plenty of free parking) to join in on all the fun at the East Main Block Party. Sculpture Fields, The Wheelhouse, Habitat Restore and other local businesses have special events planned.
The party gets started at 12PM at Sculpture Fields with Isaac Duncan III returning to demonstrate an aluminum pour which will allow visitors to make a holiday scratch plate to take home. (Cost $25). Supplies are limited to the first 45 participants so it will be first come first serve. There are some basic holiday designs in them already that individuals can personalize by scratching into the blocks. When they're done personalizing it, we'll take it over to our temporary forge and Isaac will fill the block mold with molten aluminum. After about 30 minutes, the piece is cool and ready for collection. Participants can stroll the park while they wait, or visit other locations as part of the East Main Block Party.
Our "Holiday Scratch Blocks" are specially made with holiday designs to make the creative process and outcome of your resin bonded sand block relief plates more dynamic.
What are Resin Bonded Sand Blocks?
Resin Bonded Sand Blocks are blocks made of sand and resin (like glue) that bonds to each other to create a rectangular form to pour metal into.
Process of scratching/carving:
Participants will sit/stand at a table, with there purchased holiday sand block, and scratch/carve designs into it. There will be a ribbon shape where one can carve their name or someone else's name, if it is a gift.
Below are examples of the blocks, the molds that created them, scratched design and an outcome. There will be a few blanks available for custom designs. Please be willing to spend time on them. Also remember that if you carve in names, you must do it in a mirror image manner.
There will be special instructions at the site.
Purchases for the last pour will end around 3:15 pm. Length of time can be anywhere from 1-2hrs, depending on how many completed blocks are ready to be poured.
Please remember Gourmet Cuisines are not made in 15 minutes, neither is the FINE ART EXPERIENCE.
Be sure to plan on spending some time touring the park and hearing about the 35+ large-scale sculpture currently in the park on the free downloadable app Otocast.
October 27 - Sculptures in the Sky - A spooktacular event!
PARKING:
Our main Polk St. lot will have the front reserved for handicapped parking.
RED AREAS ON MAP (or blocking loading bays/business entrances/within 10ft of train tracks)- You will be towed, yes, even on Sunday.
GENERAL PARKING:
Montague Park - 23rd St. entrance. (You can walk through the park to get to the action)
Portions of Yerby Industrial Park - 1875 Polk Street
Portions of Bennett Motor express - 1021 E 17th St
Gulf St. Lot - 1601 Gulf St.
Filmore St. (on street, do not block driveways/gates)
Gulf St. (on street, do not block driveways/gates)
Please note, several of our neighbors have kindly offered PORTIONS of their lots for parking. Please do not park in any areas marked red on this map as you WILL BE TOWED to make way for business and/or trains (these are active tracks).
UPDATE: We will be postponing our event until Sunday October 27th due to extreme weather conditions. We hope to see you there for a slightly pared down but still thrilling event!
Don your halloween duds and come out for some high flying family fun from 12 noon - 6pm (October 27 rain date). The sky at the 33 acre Sculpture Fields at Montague Park will be filled with colossal kites, stunt kites and Rokkaku battle kites. We are partnering with River City Kites for this free event (donations always appreciated!)
In addition to kites, visitors will enjoy music, activities, a costume parade, local food trucks and a beer tent. Ever seen a massive 20 foot kite that has to be anchored to the ground? Kids will be able to race parachute like kites (bols) dubbed the Running with the Bols. Visitors can also purchase, bring or make their own kites.
Our Sponsors
Sculpture spark, jazz dinner at the mill September 27, 2019
An electrifying event helping to sustain and maintain Sculpture Fields at Montague Park.
All Aboard Sculpture Train Excursion
September 22, 2018
Catch the Barnett & Co. Railroad at Sculpture Fields for an elegant dinner as you rock and roll on the rails to the Tennessee Valley Railroad Museum and back to the park. The event kicks off with a pre-party in the park with cocktails, performers and music among the 50 pieces of monumental-scale sculptures.
Tickets are $250 per person, and tables of 4 can be reserved. Price includes pre-party and dinner aboard the train. The event has limited seating, so reservations are first come, first served.
Spring in the Park
April 07 - Saturday
11am - 10pm
FREE ADMISSION
It’s a day of family fun on the Southside when Sculpture Fields celebrates its second anniversary with Spring in the Park. Enjoy live music, picnic from fun food trucks, visit the beer tent, experience artists creating their paintings and drawings outdoors, check out the new children’s area and finish off the day with witnessing the awe-inspiring sculpture burn of a 30-foot wooden structure by artist Andrew Nigh when he sets his creation ablaze.
Andrew Nigh has been designing and creating his pyrokinetic outdoor sculptures for more than 15 years. Each sculpture is designed to inspire emotional interaction with the viewer.
The monumental wood sculpture Nigh is creating for this year’s Spring in the Park is titled Aster Origamus. It will have five structural angled stanchions, with petals protruding from each one. The towering 30-foot sculpture will come to life as the sculpture is lit. The petals will unfold as the fire reaches each one, as if they are blossoming. At the same time other various flame-enhancing effects will provide kinetic movement.
Pop-Up Project and Ballet Tennessee
The Pop-up Project partnered with Ballet Tennessee to produce 'Anchors'. a dance film honoring the Fallen Five at Sculpture Fields in Chattanooga, TN.