Credit: Photo by Ilham Santoso, courtesy of College of the Atlantic
At the entrance to the College of the Atlantic in Bar Harbor, the curb splits from Eden Street. It curves away from the road and carves a granite line through the campus, around trees and over a path to end at Frenchman Bay. There are nearly 250 individual stones, the last four of which were laid Friday.
This project by contemporary sculptor Andy Goldsworthy has been physically under construction for weeks this summer. But really, it began 30 years ago when Darron Collins was a student here and discovered Goldsworthy’s work. Collins, now the college president, saw an opportunity in 2018 when a visiting museum director gave a presentation that included a commission by the artist. At the end, Collins approached the presenter with his question.
“If there’s one college in this country whose ethos totally embodies the work of Andy Goldsworthy, it is the College of the Atlantic,” Collins said to him. “Can you put me in touch?”
