LocationLakeside Nature Center |
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Artist/Designer: Ken Ferguson
Installed: February 27, 1999
Medium: Bronze
KCMO’s One Percent for the Arts Program
Masterfully evolving from a variety of sources, both real and mythical, and expressing diverse meanings, the ambiguous hare has dominated Ken Ferguson’s pottery since 1985. Taken from the famed Aesop fable, The Race is Not Always to the Swift combines Ferguson’s hare with the Center’s icon, the tortoise, in a race to the unexpected finish.
Inscription:
“THE RACE IS NOT ALWAYS TO THE SWIFT” AESOP
BRONZE
BY KENNETH R. FERGUSON COMMISSIONED FOR THE BOARD OF PARKS AND RECREATION COMMISSIONERS BY THE MUNICIPAL ART COMMISSION
ONE PERCENT FOR ARTS PROGRAM
KANSAS CITY, MISSOURI
DEDICATED FEBRUARY 27, 1999
Nearly 200 hundred years after the area’s first fur trading post was settled on the bluffs of the Missouri River, Kansas City is preparing to honor the French pioneer Francois Chouteau who established it, and the Native Americans with whom he traded. Francois Chouteau...
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