SYLACAUGA, Ala. – More than 25 artists from around the world have gathered together for the opportunity to work with Sylacauga’s pure white marble through Saturday, April 12. They will be joined by one invited sculptor from Italy, Edi Carrer, and this master sculptor will teach on-site and conduct a symposium for visiting sculptors at the nearby B.B. Comer Memorial Library.
There are regulars visiting and resident sculptors, like our adopted Craigger Brown; Frank Murphy, a Sylacauga native who lives in Romer, Ga.; Bill Cook from Tennessee; Glenn Dasher from the Huntsville area; and the Cummings from Titus, along with a pair of Sylacauga sculptors, Lewellyn Peters and Jonathan Douglas, and a host of other newcomers to the Festival.
Besides our own Sylacauga art and architecture, our native marble graces dozens of buildings in Washington D.C., Chicago, New York, Philadelphia, Birmingham, Montgomery, Connecticut, Florida, Maryland, and beyond.
Yet, that is the point behind Sylacauga’s unique festival – to celebrate the art and architecture, as well as the many industrial, food, and pharmaceutical uses. Visitors to “The Marble City” sometimes ask, “When will the marble run out?”
It will still be in the Alabama earth, still being mined, still creating hundreds of jobs, still being sculpted when our great-great-great-grandchildren go to see the future Sylacauga Magic of Marble Festivals.
