Filming Patrick Dougherty
In November 2015, the Craft in America crew documented Patrick Dougherty’s sculpture, A Sight to Behold, located next to the River Walk in Hillsborough, North Carolina. Thousands of saplings were collected (Southern sugar maple, sweetgum, and elm) from Ayr Mount, a Federal style plantation house in Hillsborough, about a mile from the River Walk. With the help of many volunteers working rain or shine, Dougherty weaves saplings into his site specific installations.
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Dougherty’s obsession extends to his home, where he has created a fabulous fence, shed, and ceiling using saplings. We also interviewed his wife, Linda Johnson Dougherty, Chief Curator at the North Carolina Museum of Art.
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Below is Dougherty’s Sweetgum Thicket at the Museum of Life and Science in Durham, North Carolina, created in February 2015. You can’t help but feel like a child inside his work.
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