Description
Learn About and Tour the astounding David Hayes Sculpture Fields in Coventry. The family home, Stonewalls, is listed on the CT Register of Historic Places
David Hayes, a Manchester, Connecticut native, was a world-class sculptor. His works are on display in art museums across the country, including the Museum of Modern Art in New York. After earning an MFA from Indiana University and receiving a post-graduate Fulbright Scholarship and a Guggenheim Fellowship, Hayes and his young family moved to Paris, where they lived for more than a decade and where Hayes studied, and connected with the famous sculptor, Alexander Calder. When the family returned to the states in the 1970s, they moved into an old farmhouse in Coventry, the place where Hayes began to create his Sculpture Fields.
Thursday evening, June 16, at the Arts Center Ann Bonney will lead a lecture/discussion of the life and work of Hayes.
Saturday, June 18, we will meet at the David Hayes Sculpture Fields, 905 South Street, Coventry. (Stay on South Street until you see the 1700’s farmhouse with a black metal sculpture on the front steps. Google maps may tell you to turn onto Bunker Hill Road – don’t do it! Stay on South Street.) David Hayes’s son David will join us for the annotated tour of the Sculpture Fields.
Participants should wear appropriate footwear for walking in the Sculpture Fields. At this time, Arts Center East is asking all visitors to the Arts Center to wear masks when in the building.
DIRECTIONS to 905 South Street, Coventry, CT: When driving, be sure to stay on the long straightaway that is South Street. You do not want Hop River Road, which is at the west end of the property. (GPS will occasionally brings guests to the incorrect location). If you find yourself on Hop River Road, head back north up the hill, make a right on Bunker Hill Road, then a right (south) on South Street, follow until you arrive at the large white house which is number 905, (on the west side of the street, but the east end of the property), and park in the driveway.