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ALPHARETTA, Ga. â Arts Alpharetta has announced its latest offering for public display, a work by internationally renowned sculptor Olu Amoda.
The work, âMiles,â is on display in Brooke Street Park in Downtown Alpharetta and represents the first endeavor in collaboration with the newly formed Alpharetta Cultural Arts Commission.
Amoda is known for re-purposing materials and metals to express modern African sensibility. The son of a goldsmith, he was born in Okere Warri in Niger in 1959. He graduated in sculpture from Auchi Polytechnic in 1983 and earned his Master of Fine Arts degree from Georgia Southern in 2009.
âMilesâ is a sculpture created entirely of repurposed automatic transmission clutch discs. It stands 16 feet tall and is shaped in the figure of a woman.