City of Lewes, Delaware
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Left Wall
MICHAEL ROSATO
Lewes Mural
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Painted mural
On display in partnership with Lewes Historic and Art in Bloom in Stango Park in 2025. (current)
Right Wall
Michael Rosato specializes in designing and painting large-scale murals for public and private spaces. Corporations, museums and individuals have commissioned Mr. Rosato to create artworks for display in museum exhibits, corporate headquarters, retail spaces, restaurants, sports arenas, outdoor venues and private residences.
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Mr. Rosato paints most of his works on canvas in his studio in Cambridge, MD., then personally installs the finished paintings on site.
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Mr. Rosato’s paintings can be seen in venues across the country, including the National Museum of the Marine Corps in Triangle, VA, the Smithsonian Museum of Natural History in Washington, DC, Texas Motor Speedway in Fort Worth, TX, the Loudoun Heritage Farm Museum in Sterling, VA, the Headquarters of Bacardi in San Juan, Puerto Rico, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Museum in Cape Charles, VA, and the Virginia Military Institute in Lexington, VA. His outdoor murals can be seen in numerous towns and cities across the country. Just down the street from his studio in Cambridge is the mural of Harriet Tubman, entitled “Take My Hand,” which is part of the Chesapeake Country Mural Trail in Dorchester County, MD.
Rapunzel Truncated, 2023
NIKI LEDERER
Red River, 2019
Rapunzel Truncated, 2023
Blue Brack Water, 2023
Re-purposed plastic bottles, machine screws, hex nuts, nylon rope
Displayed in Canal Front Park in 2025.
Blue Brack Water, 2023
Red River, 2019
Born in London, Ontario and raised in Vancouver., Niki received her BFA from the University of Victoria and her MFA from Hunter College in New York City. Her artwork has been shown at many venues including, BRIC House, Kingston Sculpture Biennial, Governors Island Art Fair, Outdoor Sculpture Biennial at Adelphi University, White Columns, Bronx Museum of the Arts and Wassaic Project.
Niki explores the theme of reusing discarded material collected on her daily travels to and from work, the studio and back home. Lederer is car-free and travels by foot, public transit and bicycle, making the opportunities to harvest source material vast and plentiful. Each item gathered holds potential as sculpture material. In keeping with her low-carbon philosophy, she is deeply committed to creating new work from previously used materials.
SHELLEY PARRIOTT
Ciel du soir, Color Field Sculpture®
Powder Coated Perforated Aluminum
Displayed in George H.P. Smith Park in 2025.
Ciel du soir, Color Field Sculpture®
Shelley Parriott has degrees from The Rhode Island School of Design (BFA) and Boston University (MFA). Her work has been exhibited and collected in her native New York City, throughout the Hudson Valley (New York), the USA and Europe. She has received numerous honors and awards including: New York Meets Berlin, a three-artist invitational, Max Planck Institute for Human Development, Berlin, Germany (US Embassy, Berlin Travel Grant); and the Medici Prize, Lorenzo il Magnifico Sculpture Medallion, Biennale Internazionale dell’ Arte Contemporanea, Florence, Italy (International jury including Barbara Rose and John T. Spike). Her solo exhibition of multiple large-scale sculptural installations inaugurated the ‘Plein Air’ Gallery at The Coral Springs Museum of Art, Coral Springs, Florida, where radiant ‘Color Fields’ were inspired by the luminous Florida sky. Parriott was represented at the 2022 Venice Biennale, Italy.
The site-specific installations are composed of individual units of perforated heavy-gauge industrial aluminum. They are structurally sound although they appear illusory. Viewers actually become participants as they can walk into and through the sculpture’s transparent overlapping layers. Moving through time and space they experience the installation from the inside looking out, or the outside looking in. They are connected to each other, to the art, to fields of color, and to nature as the environment is seen through the perforations.
Constantly changing patterns and optical illusions are discovered as sheer layers play in changing light. As light passes through the transparency of the sculpture, the atmosphere shifts; shapes that at first glance appear to be solid and corporeal now elude definition. Mysterious shimmering nuances seem to appear/disappear, and take on an airy quality not usually associated with structurally sound large-scale sculpture.
PAUL DANIEL
Red Eye, 2007
Bad Apple, 2015
Argus, 2006
Sun Tattler, 2006
Manolis, 2011
M.T. Skirt 6, 2019
Steel, aluminum, stainless steel
Displayed in George H.P. Smith Park in 2024.
Six of artist Paul Daniel’s kinetic sculptures were installed throughout George H.P. Smith Park. The City of Lewes Public Arts Committee, the generous support of the Delaware Department of the Arts, and donations from the Lewes community brought these artworks to Lewes.
Daniel is renowned for his kinetic sculptures and has showcased his work in various venues. He has 6 sculptures on display at the Biggs Museum in Dover, DE. His sculptures explore themes of nature, such as wind, light, and movement, responding to the environmental currents and calm. The kinetic elements of his art reflect the Earth's rotation, wind velocity, and the passage of time. Daniel has earned several accolades for his work, including a Municipal Art Society Grant, a Maryland State Arts Council Individual Artists Grant, a Henry Walters Traveling Fellowship, and a National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship Grant. He holds a BFA from the Kansas City Art Institute and an MFA from Rinehart School of Sculpture, Maryland Institute College of Art.
Paviljeon
DEWITT GODFREY
Paviljoen
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Steel
Displayed in Canal Front Park in 2023.
DeWitt Godfrey is a large-scale sculptor working in Hamilton, NY. His work employs carefully conceived structural processes, combining cutting edge digital technologies with custom craftsmanship, all grounded in empirical knowledge and experimentation. Natural geometries and systems - plant spores, seashells, honeycombs – inspire his sculptures; and through his unique process of packing and stacking of conic and cylindrical steel forms, simple rules give rise to extraordinary complexity.
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Godfrey serves as the Peter L. and Maria T. Kellner Endowed Chair in Arts, Creativity, and Innovation at Colgate University. A graduate of Yale University (BA in Art) and Edinburgh College of Art, Edinburgh, Scotland (MFA/sculpture), Godfrey was also a member of the inaugural group of CORE Fellows at the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston. Godfrey has received numerous grants and fellowships, including the National Endowment for the Arts Artist’s Fellowship, the New York Foundation for the Arts Artists Fellowship, the Japan Foundation Artist’s Fellowship, and the Louis Comfort Tiffany Foundation Artist Fellowship.
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He also served as a Senior Advisor for the Terre Foundation of American Art’s program in Giverny, France and as President of the College Art Association. Godfrey’s work can be found in several private and public collections including the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, the Brooklyn Museum, Portland International Airport (PDX), and Art OMI.
Double Arc Leaves and Lava (Hawaii California), 2020-2021
LETHA WILSON
Double Arc Leaves and Lava (Hawaii California), 2020-2021
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UV prints on Corten steel
Displayed in Canal Front Park in 2022.
Letha Wilson’s practice is rooted in material experimentation. Her synthesis of mediums expands the visual and physical dimensions of photography and sculpture. By combining industrial materials such as welded Corten steel, poured concrete, aluminum sheeting, and vinyl with traditional photography, Wilson has developed unique fabrication processes. She prints images depicting the beauty of natural landscapes onto her sculptures and embeds them in the surface of her works, wrangling them into unique formations that provide a high contrast of heft and density with lightness and play. The sweeping expanse of a desert sunset, grooved rock formations, and verdant palm trees are among images Wilson has taken while traveling in Hawaii, the American West, and Iceland. The natural world is both the subject and content of her work; a metaphor for the role of the landscape in myths of renewal, and possibility.
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Wilson’s site-specific works and public projects convey her ideas on a monumental scale, altering the space around them and offering moments of respite in the urban landscape. The outdoor sculptures engage directly with the elements and nature; as patinas form over time due to weather conditions, the natural world will act as a co-creative force on the appearance of these artworks.
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Letha Wilson was born in Hawaii, raised in Greeley, Colorado, and currently lives and works in Taghkanic and Brooklyn, New York. She received her BFA from Syracuse University and her MFA from Hunter College in New York City, and attended the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture in 2009. Her work has been shown at many venues including Mass MoCA, North Adams, MA; the Cantor Art Center at Stanford University, CA; Museo d’Arte Contemporanea, Rome, Italy; Columbus Museum of Art, OH; the Center for Maine Contemporary Art, Rockland; deCordova Sculpture Park and Museum, Lincoln, MA; and the Nasher Museum at Duke University, Durham, NC. Solo and two-person exhibitions have been held at GRIMM Gallery in New York and London, Galerie Christophe Gaillard, Paris, FR, Higher Pictures Generations, New York, and Sperone Westwater, New York. Her outdoor sculptures have been installed in the City of Las Vegas, NV, Riverside Park, New York, NY, the Rochester Institute of Technology, NY, and the Institute of Contemporary Art San Diego, CA.
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Wilson has been awarded artist residencies at MacDowell, Yaddo, Walentas Studio Program, Bemis Center for Contemporary Arts, and Headlands Center for the Arts, and she received the New York Foundation for the Arts Fellowship in Photography. For the academic year 2025, Letha was appointed the Stuart B. Cooper Endowed Chair of Photography at the Maryland Institute College of Art in Baltimore (MICA). Her work has been reviewed in Artforum, Art in America, the New York Times, The New Yorker, and Artsy, among others.
ROSE DESIANO
Absent Monuments​
Reflective metal, wood base
Displayed in Canal Front Park in 2022.
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Ancillary Spheres
Photo decals on reflective metal
Displayed in George H.P. Smith Park in 2022.
Absent Monuments
Ancillary Spheres
Rose DeSiano brings together photography and sculpture into a public art practice. Her artwork examines cultural symbolism, the collective consciousness, and is interested in bringing to the surface lost or undiscussed topics of history. Using art in public spaces to foster community, DeSiano sees public art as an act of advocacy and activism. Commissioned by multiple cities, her photo-sculptures have appeared throughout New York City, in San Diego, and Cleveland and have received awards, including the Uniqlo Parks Grant and FLOW.17 Public Art Award. Her gallery artwork has been exhibited in solo shows in the US and Europe, featured in several group museum exhibitions; Bronx Art Museum, Allentown Museum of Art, Heritage Museum of Málaga, and has been included in international art fairs; Photoville, FOTOFOCUS, and Orange Changsha Photo, China. Her work appears in numerous publications including; Hyperallergic, Vogue, Time Out, ArtNews, and UK’s Aesthetica. DeSiano has her MFA from Art Center, LA, her BFA from NYU’s Tisch School of Arts. She currently lives in NYC and is a Professor of Art at Kutztown University of Pennsylvania.
VIVIEN COLLENS
Lewes Squirts​
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Powder-coated aluminum
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Displayed in George H.P. Smith Park in 2022.
Lewes Squirts
Vivien Abrams Collens is a mid-career abstract artist born in Cleveland, Ohio, whose current practice includes large-scale site-specific sculpture installations. After graduating with a BFA from Carnegie Mellon University, she studied in San Miguel de Allende, Mexico, for two years, receiving an MFA from the Institute Allende. In 1970, she returned to her hometown of Cleveland, where she rented a studio and worked at the Cleveland Museum of Art and the Cleveland Institute of Art. In 1977, after achieving regional recognition for her work, relief wall constructions, and shaped constructed painting installations, she moved to NYC, where she received numerous fellowships, including Yaddo and MacDowell. Her early NYC works (signed Vivien Abrams) were widely shown in NYC and elsewhere in the 70s and 80s and are in museum and corporate collections. Approaching the end of her childbearing years, she married in 1985, had two children, and took her husband's surname. During the following years of family responsibility, Collens continued her studio practice, focusing on painting and whimsical relief constructions. In 2015, Collens had a NYC solo exhibition, “Urban Studies and City Blocks” at the Rockefeller Center gallery of Gensler architects. City Blocks, her first freestanding sculptures, were exhibited there with her Urban Studies paintings from the past few years. At that point, she decided to focus on sculpture. With an irreverent playful approach, Collens began developing larger sculptures, inspired by the teachings of Friedrich Froebel, and focusing on urban architecture and fluid energy. During a 2017 residency at Salem Art Works, Collens learned to weld, beginning a dialogue with the environment and public sculpture. Since then, she has created numerous installations of her large-scale public sculptures at sculpture parks and museums.
Efforescence
KATE DODD
Efforescence​
Recycled painted water bottles on metal supports
Displayed in George H.P. Smith Park in 2021.
Kate Dodd received her B.F.A. from Pratt Institute in 1983, and her M.F.A. from Columbia University in 1990, and currently lives and teaches in New Jersey. She has exhibited her artwork nationally in museums, galleries, and colleges, and has been teaching art in public and private schools for 30 years. Kate has been awarded residencies at MacDowell, Rutgers Center for Innovative Print and Papermaking, the Connemara Conservancy, Cummington Community for the Arts, the Vermont Studio School and numerous schools in the tri-state area. In addition to site-specific installations, Kate has large scale works commissioned by NJ Transit in Bayonne, Newark, South Amboy, and Hoboken. Kate's installations provide a heightened sensory experience for the viewer\occupant, while reexamining institutional and conventional notions of architecture and its relationship to the environment.
Unbounded II
RACHEL MICA WEISS
Unbounded II​
Stone, rope
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Displayed in Canal Front Park in 2021.
Rachel Mica Weiss (b. Rockville, MD, 1986) is a sculptor and installation artist based in the Hudson Valley. Her work reconstitutes various boundaries—architectural, topographical, and psychological—to demonstrate their impact upon us. Her sculptures, often scaled to the human body, combine the visual language of textiles with the density of stone and cast forms—components that balance uneasily, vie for dominance, or are inextricably intertwined. Weiss’s work draws attention to the constraints within our physical and psychological spaces, asking us to reimagine those so-called barriers as flexible, passable, porous.
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Weiss earned a BA in psychology from Oberlin College, an MFA in sculpture from the San Francisco Art Institute. She is the recipient of: an Investing in Professional Artists Grant from the Pittsburgh Foundation and The Heinz Endowments (2020) and a San Francisco Foundation Murphy and Cadogan Fellowship (2011); she was named a Hopper Prize finalist (2019). She has been invited to the Fountainhead Residency, Miami, FL (2020), funded by the Heinz Endowments; 100 W Corsicana Artist and Writer Residency, Corsicana, TX (2020), funded by a Navarro Council for the Arts Grant; Lux Art Institute Residency, Encinitas, CA (2018); and Marble House Project Residency, Dorset, VT (2015), among other residencies.
Weiss has been the subject of nine solo exhibitions at the following venues: Carvalho Park, New York (2024); The Armory Show, New York (2024); Here, Pittsburgh, PA (2022-23) ; Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA (2019) ; Lux Art Institute, San Diego, CA (2018); LMAK Gallery, New York, NY (2018, 2017); Montserrat College of Art, Beverly, MA (2015); Fridman Gallery, New York, NY (2014); the San Francisco Arts Commission, San Francisco, CA (2013). Weiss has created public artworks for venues worldwide, including for the US Embassy in Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan; Airbnb, Seattle, WA; and The Pittsburgh International Airport. Recent commissions include The Wild Within for the deCordova Sculpture Park and Museum in Lincoln, MA, and Boundless Topographies, her largest permanent installation to date, which was funded by the Gates Foundation and recently installed at the University of Washington’s Hans Rosling Center for Population Health in Seattle.
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Weiss’ work is included in several public and private collections such as: the US Embassy in Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan; Microsoft Corporate Collection; Boston Consulting Group Corporate Collection; Media Math Corporate Collection; Sloan Kettering Memorial Cancer Center, as well as the collections of Francis J. Greenberger, Beth Rudin deWoody and The Weissman Family.
KYLE CONFEHR
Lewes Public Art Mural, 2020 (current)
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Spray Paint
On display along Lewes Bike Path between Jefferson and Franklin Streets.
Lewes Public Art Mural, 2020
Kyle is a multidisciplinary artist and designer with more than a decade of experience bringing hand-drawn, high-impact visual language to brands, spaces, and digital platforms. His work combines the visual energy of street art with a thoughtful design sensibility, creating immersive and memorable experiences across a wide range of applications.
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He has collaborated with organizations such as Verizon, Whole Foods Market, and the Philadelphia International Airport, and his murals and activations have appeared in both physical and virtual environments. Kyle is known for his collaborative approach, attention to detail, and ability to translate abstract ideas into engaging visual storytelling that resonates with diverse audiences.
