Arch

Medium: steel

Installed: 1977

Heberling, a U-M MFA graduate, created the eighteen foot tall steel sculpture in 1977. It was removed and underwent restoration in 2007 and was reinstalled in 2008.

It is located in a small park that is a popular spot with people frequenting nearby businesses to sit and relax.

The history of the triumphal arch dates back to the Romans, who scattered them as a mark of their conquests in Italy, France, North Africa, and Asia. This “arch” updates that ancient lineage with recent accretions from cubism, minimalism, and modernist abstraction. It functions here as a symbolic gate, a segue between the downtown business district and Kerrytown. From Public Art in Ann Arbor and Washtenaw County, by Martha R. Keller & Michael J. Curtis, 1995.