he was an assistant to Paul Granlund (1925-2003), another well-known Minnesota sculptor who was an artist-in-residence at Gustavus Adolphus College in St Peter, Minn. Huntington honed his skills in sculpture under Granlund's tutelage, learning to build sculptures from found objects and by casting metal. He was invited to be an artist-in-residence for the Minneapolis Public School system and is the subject of a Minneapolis Public School teacher's guide on Native American art
Gone, thankfully, are the days of taking a zillion shots, having sides developed, then just setting them aside after discovering that one fabulous slide of that one fabulous stainless steel sculpture that was created, then destroyed. Really, one picture of that one sculpture is plenty. There is a reason that sculpture was destroyed!
When someone mentions public art the first thing that comes to mind is a large scale sculpture in a park, or maybe a corporation that has placed a contemporary sculpture in the front of their building.
A child’s artwork is free-flowing and uninhibited by preconceived notions. As an artist, isn’t that what we are always striving for?
One day Kevin was spraying water on the stainless steel sculpture to clean it and this gentleman yelled from across the street “Kevin, no matter how much you water it, you know it’s not going to grow!”
