The Ava Awards

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Carol Gold, AVA creator

Who designed the AVA?

Noted California sculptor Carol Gold created this beautiful sculpture, which she generously gave the MHF to honor individuals for outstanding achievements on behalf of a just and healthy society. The AVA sculpture was created in wax and cast into bronze. It's dimensions are 15.5" high, 9" wide, and 3" deep. The patina is in warm tones of golden brown.
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Born in Hartford Connecticut, Carol grew up in a dairy farm in western Massachusetts. She studied art at Cornell University, Boston University and the Museum School in Boston. Carol learned bronze casting techniques at the College of Marin that enabled her to build and operate her own foundry with a fellow sculptor. This intimacy with the entire casting process profoundly affected the evolution of her sculpture. She began to think in terms of the potential of the metal and started to use wax as her creative medium rather than the clay of her initial sculptures.

Simplicity is primary in Carol's continuous search for forms with which to best express the essence of motion and mood. Through the attitudes of her figures and animals she strives to convey her feelings about nature and aspects of human behavior.

For the past 25 years, her work has been widely exhibited in the US and Canada. Among her numerous awards are those received from the National Sculpture Society and the North American Sculpture Exhibition. Among her public commissions are those for the Department of Education in the city of Bakersfield, the campus at Southwest Oregon Community College in Coos Bay, Oregon and Benson Park in Loveland, Colorado.

Here are some links to her work:
www.nationalsculptorsguild.com/artist_gold.htm
www.bronzecoastgallery.com/gold.htm
www.savagecontemporary.com/gold_pg1.html