Editor’s note: Click the link to watch installation of the 20th piece of sculpture, “The Morrison Mavem,” by Melissa Meyer. Be sure to look in the Maven’s mirror.
Morrison Institute of Technology, 701 Portland Avenue, Morrison, IL, will host its First Biennial (two year) Sculpture Show. Titled “20 for 2025,” the show officially opens Saturday, September 20, 2025. Ten, new, large-scale sculptures have been installed on campus, at Portland Avenue (IL Route 78), south of town. They join ten current pieces and will be displayed into 2026.
After downtown Morrison’s Paint the Town winds down, there will be a 6:00 p.m. Opening Reception in the MIT Auditorium–with complimentary pizza and drinks. Meet these Illinois professional Sculptors. Morrison Curator Charles Yost commented, “Come to Paint the Town’s street art event; stay around for the Sculptors’ Reception!”
Yost noted, “The first Biennial Morrison Tech Sculpture Exhibit will reacquaint all viewers to the awareness, that a public sculpture display shows a Community’s artistic pride, acceptance, appreciation, and importance.”
Sprinkled across the campus, 20 three-dimentional artworks are free for public viewing/photographing. They will provide “selfie” opportunities, but no one is allowed to mount the art pieces.
Local Businesses and Organizations who have not yet contributed are encouraged to support the Arts in their community with a donation. Donations will defray costs of marketing, purchased concrete sculpture pads; artist stipends; reception food.
Make checks payable to “Morrison Tech;” write “Sculpture Show” on the memo line. Mail your contribution to Morrison Institute of Technology, 701 Portland Avenue, Morrison, IL, 61270.
For more information, contact professional Sculptor and Curator Yost at 773-665-0800.
This shiny, curvilinear piece stands about 8 ft tall; it resembles a tree–but it is an abstract piece, not representational art. Viewers are free to see what they will, in its design. It is visually pleasing, balanced, reflective, and varied. A spotlight illuminates it–as does moonlight, said MIT President Chris Scott.
