New Sculpture Coming to Westminster Library

A new sculpture is coming to the Westminster Branch Library and you’re invited to the unveiling.

Liber will be the third installation at the Mary Lou Dewey Sculpture Park, and it will be unveiled Thursday, June 6 at 6:15 p.m.

The award-winning artist, Jo Israelson, will also be on hand to discuss her work at a meet and greet, featuring refreshments and live music by Tony Sciuto.

Liber was carved from Indiana limestone and described as representing “the transformation from bark to pages of a book,” according to a statement from the Carroll County Public Library.

Israelson has been turning stone into art for more than two decades, according to the library. The Union Bridge educator and community-based artist has been the Maryland State Artist in Residence and was awarded first place in the first Biennial Maryland Regional Juried Art Exhibit.

Her sculpture will join Wild Imaginings by Bart Walter and Trilogy, a natural stone sculpture, created by library staff and the Lehigh Cement Company’s Limestone Quarry.