Local figure
Patrick Dougherty
Patrick Dougherty, a sculptor who builds with tree saplings, earned an English degree at UNC and later returned to Chapel Hill to study art history and sculpture. The Hillsborough Arts Council commissioned his stickwork A Sight to Behold, built on the Riverwalk in November 2015 with 190 volunteers.
Source: News of Orange County: Stickwork sculpture to be removed
1945– · Dates from the Library of Congress · On the Friends’ Local Authors roster → · Library of Congress authority record ↗
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Life and Orange County connections
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- Patrick Dougherty builds A Sight to Behold on the Hillsborough Riverwalk The Hillsborough Arts Council commissioned the stickwork sculpture, which Dougherty built along the Riverwalk with about 190 volunteers from saplings gathered at Ayr Mount and in the Waterstone development.Search the index · News of Orange County: Stickwork sculpture to be removed
- Patrick Dougherty builds Step Right Up at the Ackland Art Museum The Ackland commissioned five stickwork vessels for its front lawn, built by Dougherty with 188 volunteers from maple and gum saplings harvested in Duke Forest and on Triangle Land Conservancy land.Search the index · Ackland Art Museum: Patrick Dougherty: Step Right Up
- Snow collapses the dome of the Riverwalk stickwork sculpture Winter Storm Diego brought down the dome of A Sight to Behold after about three years on the Riverwalk, and the Hillsborough Arts Council planned a send-off during its Solstice Lantern Walk on December 21.Search the index · News of Orange County: Stickwork sculpture to be removed
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- Hillsborough Riverwalk Houses, farms, parks and cemeteries · Hillsborough · 2 events here
- Ackland Art Museum University buildings and grounds · Chapel Hill · 1 event here
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- DigitalNC newspapers: 13 Orange County pages naming Patrick Dougherty Searchable pages from historic Orange County newspapers
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- NC LIVE: prepared search for Patrick Dougherty Library card Search NC LIVE for this subject and Orange County. You can change the search terms. Sign in through your North Carolina library to access the materials.
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- Rebecca B. Wall Local History Collection, Orange County Public Library The county library’s local-history room at the Main Library in Hillsborough: books, journals, maps, and microfilm of county records from 1752
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