Scoutship
War of the Worlds 80th Anniversary
West Windsor Arts Council
West Windsor, NJ
Sum: Scoutship, made on the occasion of the West Windsor Arts Council’s launch of a sculpture program, celebrates the 80th anniversary of the radio broadcast of Orson Welles’ War of the Worlds. Unlike H.G. Wells’s 1938 show--which people mistook for a news bulletin about Martians invading New Jersey--Schultz’s larger-than-life water tower creature caused zero panic. Kids hug it.
Parts: Stainless steel cooking bowls, lamp parts, air compressor tank, steel pipe, microphones, shovels, metal tables, springs.
They’re Out There
Village Park, Lawrenceville, NJ
Sum: What’s out there? Everything we seek is out there. Also out there are the seekers who are never satisfied so they keep looking. And then there are the seekers who are never satisfied who don’t realize that what they’re looking for is right in front of them (or on their head, as here with the bird).
Parts: Electric box, truck shocks, pipe, tool box, vacuums, grill parts, wire, colander, camera.
Sleeping Giant
Grounds for Sculpture Artist in Residence
Hamilton, NJ
Sum: “Sleeping Giant” was made while Schultz was the Artist in Residence at the Grounds for Sculpture. It’s the result of hundreds of volunteers who together sorted through donated trash and junk to create the 16 x 8-foot “Murray the Giant.” The group took special care with those things for which there needed, anatomically, to be two—lungs, kidneys, arms, etc…
Parts: Schultz’s mom’s sewing machine, big mixing bowl, keyboards, vacuums, lamps, tubing, pots and pans.
Herbula Love Bug
Garden State Discovery Museum
Cherry Hill, NJ
Sum: Perched on the roof of the Children’s Discovery Museum in Cherry Hill, NJ, this work was a commission to transform a 1976 Volkswagen Beetle into a “Love Bug.”
Parts: ’76 Volkswagen “bug”, front and ear car bodies, steep pipe, springs, plate steel, auto body paint.
The Amazing Pumpkin Carve
Hopewell Valley Arts Council
Woosley Park, Titusville, NJ
