Montgomery Museum of Fine Arts

The Montgomery Museum of Fine Arts will restore and preserve two major sculptures that have been in disrepair for more than a decade. A conservator will evaluate and restore Edward Hendrick’s 1991-IV kinetic aluminum sculpture, the artist’s only marine based work. The conservator will assess cracked welds, make any needed structural repairs, and re-gild and coat the surfaces to protect them from environmental damage. The conservator will replace faulty cables in Buckminster Fuller’s Twelve Degrees of Freedom sculpture, and the museum will reinstall it on its original base with a protective vitrine. More than 150,000 visitors, along with area residents and travelers, will engage with Hendricks’ work in the lake outside the museum, and visitors will be able to view Fuller’s work in the museum gallery for the first time since 1999.