Charter Bus, Limousine and Party Bus Travel Blog

Encompassing four acres of prime real estate, the free sculpture garden is devoted exclusively to Texas artists. Granted, the location is off the usual track, its part of the Hall Office Park complex in Frisco, 30 miles north of downtown Dallas, beyond the new Shops at Willow Bend shopping center. All told, the multimillion dollar collection hosts 40 contemporary sculptures. Some of the states top talents (from all areas and all ages groups) are represented: Harry Geffert of Crowley; Ken Little of San Antonio; Joseph Havel of Houston; Mac Whitney of Ovilla; James Surls, formerly of Splendora, now based in Colorado; Frances Bag ley, Tom Orr, Sherry Owens, James Sullivan and Isaac Smith of Dallas. Color is the first thing visitors notice driving in a soaring red construction by Mr. Whitney, a bright blue kinetic piece by Art Shirer, an undulating abstraction of a reclining figure titled La Mujer Roja (The Red Woman) by Michelle O'Michael. More than a dozen other sculptures dot newly landscaped gardens, a former meadow where cows grazed recently and sunflowers once reached waist-high, now a series of gently sloping hills and pathways punctuated by trees, plants and water. Fanciful creatures await those who get out of their cars to walk the grounds. Bronze rabbits by David Iles romp through bushes. Metal ravens perch atop spindly steel branches in a Joe Barrington piece. A charioteer with part of a tractor as its head leads an animal of indeterminate origin in T. Paul Hernandez's whimsical Reincarnation of Farmer Bradley. An abstract dolphin by John Brough Miller leaps into the air. Half of the artworks are displayed outdoors, with the remaining 20 housed inside the complex. Charter a school bus for a class trip today!