March 19, 2010
Artist Alice Guffey Miller installed the first of her stainless steel square dance figures — the fiddler — this week at the Historic Arkansas Museum. “Party for Peg,” a public art project that honors the late Peg Smith, long-time museum board member and a visionary preservationist, will include four dancers mounted on brick pedestals inset with items from Arkansas’s past donated by schoolchildren and friends of Peg from throughout Arkansas. The sculpture will be unveiled May 8 at the museum’s territorial fair. May it inspire more public art projects that combine fine sculpture with local identity. Guffey Miller lives in Monticello.

Artist Alice Guffey Miller installed the first of her stainless steel square dance figures — the fiddler — this week at the Historic Arkansas Museum. “Party for Peg,” a public art project that honors the late Peg Smith, long-time museum board member and a visionary preservationist, will include four dancers mounted on brick pedestals inset with items from Arkansas’s past donated by schoolchildren and friends of Peg from throughout Arkansas. The sculpture will be unveiled May 8 at the museum’s territorial fair. May it inspire more public art projects that combine fine sculpture with local identity. Guffey Miller lives in Monticello.

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