Save Outdoor Sculpture!

Spring 2006

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Lincoln SOS! Project Endorsed
Find out how you can help us save Lincoln sculptures in time for his 200th birthday.

Preserving Sculpture after Katrina: A Monumental Task
SOS! is helping out sculptures on the Gulf Coast.

Conservation Treatment Award Update
In 2005, two sculptures in New Jersey were conserved as part of the SOS! Conservation Treatment Award program.

Save America's Treasures Helps Sculpture; Deadline 4/18
Check out this funding source and see how it could help you save a sculpture. Don't miss the upcoming deadline for sculpture conservation!

SOSer Still Saving Sculpture
The Missouri Public Art Program is continuing the work begun with the original SOS! survey.

Teaching About Sculpture the Hands-On Way
This NEA-SOS! funded project supports educational programs connected to sculpture.

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Artist Steve Kline’s Serpent Mound shows water lines from being in standing water in New Orleans for more than two weeks.

National Cemetery Administration's Memorials Inventory Project Complete
A project to find all the memorials in national cemeteries had some surprising results.

Sculpture and Conservation in Smithsonian American Art Museum Renovations
With new sculpture installations and a conservation lab visible to visitors, the American Art Museum and National Portrait Gallery will have something for everyone.

How You Can Help Support SOS!

Sculpture Notes
Some new publications and grants of interest to sculpture lovers.

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Save Outdoor Sculpture! is a joint project of Heritage Preservation and the Smithsonian American Art Museum. SOS! Update reports on the project's progress and activities related to outdoor sculpture in the United States. Readers are encouraged to reprint or duplicate SOS! Update articles. Credit should read: "Reprinted with permission of Save Outdoor Sculpture!"

Heritage Preservation receives funding from the National Park Service, Department of the Interior. However, the contents and opinions contained in this publication do not necessarily reflect the views or policies of the Department of the Interior.