Enfield Public Sculpture
Community Arts Partnership Announces Commission for Public Sculpture in Enfield
Posted May 29, 2025
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All About the Project!
The Community Arts Partnership has commissioned Hammondsport artists Tony Moretti and Gwen Quigley, known jointly as Crows Nest Artists, to create a site-specific public sculpture in the Town of Enfield celebrating local culture and values connected to food and agriculture.
Work on the project has been underway for several years as a project team worked to shape the vision and commission the sculpture. A key aspect to the project is that it have a high level of community engagement, bringing people together from all parts of the Enfield community including Black families, Indigenous people, farmers, kids, town workers, and all who call Enfield home.
Says CAP Executive Director Megan Barber, “When we first started envisioning this project, educator Dr. Nia Nunn and artist Annemarie Zwack (project collaborators) and I knew we wanted to deeply engage with the community so that the sculpture would grow from the community and be welcomed in.
"We quickly realized this also meant engaging with people who are Indigenous to this place. Through our work with Michelle Seneca (Gayogohó:nǫˀ, Turtle clan) and Stephen Henhawk (Gayogohó:nǫˀ, Wolf clan), this project and process became an expression of the Two Row Wampum – of how Indigenous and non-Indigenous people can work together. Then Jean Owens of the Enfield Food Pantry and Stephanie Redmond, Enfield Town Supervisor, joined our team. Together we so excited to announce Gwen and Tony and launch the sculpture.”
In discussing the selection of Gwen Quigley and Tony Moretti, Barber had this to say: “We felt Gwen and Tony were the perfect partners for this project. We not only appreciated their beautiful artistry, but we are excited about their community engagement process and their commitment to making artwork that is one-of-a-kind and specific to its place.”
Quigley and Moretti added, “From the project description, through the interview process, to meeting and planning, we’ve been impressed with the commitment, integrity, care, and awareness of this vision and the community that the project collaborators bring. We are excited (and a little bit daunted) to work with the greater Enfield community to build on this foundation and transform this vision into a Community Sculpture.”
Stephanie Redmond, Enfield Town Supervisor, shares this: “The Town of Enfield is honored to participate in the trail of sculptures through Tompkins County. We eagerly anticipate collaborating with Tony Moretti and Gwen Quigley to engage our community in bringing this public sculpture to life. I am immensely proud of the collective efforts and collaboration that have led us to this milestone. This sculpture is not just an artwork; it is a symbol of our shared values and our deep-rooted connection to the land and agriculture that define Enfield.”
The Enfield sculpture is to be the first of a trail of sculptures throughout the county celebrating the same theme, made possible with funding from the Tompkins County Tourism Program.
The Community Arts Partnership of Tompkins County provides grants, services, and programs to artists and audiences. CAP connects artists and audiences through the Greater Ithaca Art Trail, Ithaca Artist Market, Spring Writes Literary Festival, and the CAP ArtSpace Gallery. CAP provides grants, a professional development workshop series, and other resources for artists. For more information on the Community Arts Partnership and its programs and services, visit www.artspartner.org.
Planning Team
Megan Barber is a nonprofit leader, musician, and community builder. Driven by her belief in the power of arts to change the world, Megan takes pride in supporting local artists and arts groups to realize their visions. As Executive Director of the Community Arts Partnership, her goals include cultivating a thriving creative culture that reflects our community’s diversity. Megan grew up in Enfield and is excited to work with the community on this project.
Stephen Henhawk (Gayogohó:nǫˀ, Wolf clan) is a historian ad first-language speaker who grew up at Six Nations of the Grand River reserve in Canada. Stephen is a language teacher with the Gayogohó:nǫˀ Learning Project and a Research Associate at Cornell University.
Dr. Nia Nunn is a community leader serving as Associate Professor at Ithaca College, Board President of the Southside Community Center, Director of the Community Unity Music Education Program, and former School Psychologist at Beverly J. Martin Elementary. The synergy of her intersecting roles and craft is rooted in Black consciousness, ant-racist, and abolitionist frameworks. A mother, poet, speaker, consultant, and yogi, she is committed to learning and engaging audiences creatively, intensely, and gracefully.
Michelle Seneca (Gayogohó:nǫˀ, Turtle Clan) is Co-Leader of the Gayogohó:nǫˀ Learning Project. She is focusing on the matriation of original food systems and to continue cultural practices, guiding directives in which language and culture can be revitalized among the Gayogohó:nǫˀ diaspora.
Annemarie Zwack is an artist specializing in engaging communities in creating Self-Determinative public art. She is currently employed by the Community Unity Music Education Program, based out of Southside Community Center, in Ithaca, NY. She has been engaging communities in creative self expression, locally, nationally, and internationally since 2002. As a teaching artist, using art to express core curriculum, she guided Enfield Elementary students making a mosaic numberline, in 2011. www.ZwackArt.com
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