
                         Roanoke Times
                 Copyright (c) 1995, Landmark Communications, Inc.

DATE: WEDNESDAY, March 29, 1995                   TAG: 9503290038
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SCULPTURE COUNTING

A workshop for volunteers interested in identifying and surveying outdoor sculpture in Roanoke, Danville and the Lexington area will be held Thursday at 1 p.m. at the Art Museum of Western Virginia at Roanoke's Center in the Square.

The survey project is being sponsored nationally by the National Institute for the Conservation of Cultural Property and the National Museum of American Art, which is part of the Smithsonian Institution. In Virginia, the project is being coordinated by the state Department of Historic Resources.

Organizers are calling the effort the largest volunteer cultural project in America's history. At the workshop, volunteers will be trained to count and assess the condition of any outdoor public sculpture, including monuments to Confederate and Revolutionary War heroes, religious statues and folk art.

For more information, call Sarah Driggs at the Department of Historic Resources, (804) 225-3850.

by CNB