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Welcome to Symphonic Stroll

  • Performance sites are nestled throughout Josephine Sculpture Park, connected by mowed grass trails. Use your event map and follow the purple flags to guide you from one performance to the next.

  • Music is happening all around the park, all afternoon. Experience Symphonic Stroll your way!

    • Follow a suggested path to hear all five performances:
      • 4:00 PM entry → 1 → 2 → 3 → 4 → 5
      • 4:30 or 5:00 PM entry → 4 → 5 → 1 → 2 → 3

    • Go at your own pace — start anywhere and let the music lead the way.

  • Food and drink trucks will be located near the center of the park, including West Sixth Brewing, Castle & Key, Spotz Gelato, Taqueria El Taco Feliz, Pasta Garage, and Say Cheese!

    Shaded seating is available in the food court area for you to relax and enjoy your meal.

Skip to Sites: 1 / 2 / 3 / 4 / 5 / 6 / 7

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Site 1: Where we Belong

  • Swing Set: Share a Share (Duyan: Ibahagi ang Balato) by Leticia Bajuyo

    Artist Statement: Visually inspired by gothic architecture and spider’s legs and webs, the structure holding up the swings locks together into a geometric pattern that radiates from the hub of this sculptural wheel.

    The wood seats of the swing are carved, sculpted, and personalized by members of the Filipinx Artists of Houston. Each seat is a portrait - a story. These voices share the swing set as a community whose backgrounds and lived experiences have been translated into a space where each story contributes to the collective.

    OK to swing on with respect. More here.

  • “I was really moved by the idea of working together and communicating without words to keep everyone safe and to get where you are trying to go,” says composer Brittany J. Green.

    With this in mind, she created an installation where each swing triggers a sound when someone interacts. The piece features retro-styleboomboxes swaying with the recorded voices of Lexingtonians.

    “Each sound is interesting on its own,” Green explains, “but when they’re all put together, they create a beautiful soundtrack that represents the communal spirit of Kentucky.”

    Using prompts such as “community means…” and “Lexington is home because…”, Where We Belong captures today’s collective voices and invites us to “share the swing set” of community.

  • LexPhil 2025-2026 Saykaly Garbulinska Composer-in-Residence

    Brittany J. Green (she/her(s)) is a North Carolina-based composer, creative, and educator. Her music facilitates intimate musical spaces that ignite visceral responses at the intersection of sound, video, movement, and text.

    Recent works engage sonification and black feminist theory as tools for sonic world-building, exploring the construction, displacement, and rupture of systems. Her artistic practice includes spoken and electronic performance, interdisciplinary collaboration, experiential projects, and acoustic and electroacoustic chamber and large ensemble works.

    Her music has been featured at TIME:SPANS, NYC Electronic Music Festival, WoCo Fest, and Experimental Sound Studio. Her collaborators include the International Contemporary Ensemble, JACK Quartet, Transient Canvas, Castle of our Skins, Emory University Symphony Orchestra, and Wachovia Winds. Brittany holds awards from the American Academy of Arts and Letters, ASCAP Foundation, and New Music USA.

    She is a doctoral candidate at Duke University, pursuing a PhD in music composition as a Dean’s Graduate Fellow. 

  • 4:05PM - 4:30PM

    4:55PM - 5:20PM

    5:45PM - 6:10PM

    6:35PM - 7:00PM

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  • Brittany J. Green

    LexPhil 2025-2026 Saykaly Garbulinska Composer-in-Residence

  • Swing Set: Share a Share

    (Duyan: Ibahagi ang Balato)

    by Leticia Bajuyo

Site 2: Cello Quartet

  • Cultured Stone by Antoinette Schultze

    Artist Statement: Vertical and horizontal ribbons meander up, down, around, under and over each other, intersecting in the center of the sculpture to form a crossroads. This is symbolic of all the intersecting past events and forces that create a life and a community. The blue squared glass that adorns the top is a symbol of the source of all life, where everything becomes one.

  • Benjamin Karp
    Jerram John
    Myles Yeazell
    Ethan Young

  • Michel Corrette - Le Phénix, Allegro
    Prokofiev (arr. King) - Scherzo Humoristique
    Carlos Gardel (arr. Keen) - Por Una Cabeza Tango
    Wilhelm Fitzenhagen - Ave Maria
    Stravinsky (arr. King) - Vivo from Pulcinella
    Lennon & McCartney - Eleanor Rigby
    Leonard Cohen (arr. Muirhead) - Hallelujah

  • 4:35 - 5:00

    5:25 - 5:50

    6:15 - 6:40

    7:05 - 7:30

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  • Cultured Stone

    by Antoinette Schultze

Site 3: Cello & Bass Duo

  • Fly Away by Céline Browning

    Artist Statement: "Fly Away" is a bird blind meant to be enjoyed by visitors while viewing the surrounding landscape. The sculpture is made up of four steel archways and twenty-one steel panels. Each set of steel panels features a pair of plants and birds native to Kentucky. Following the panels from the bottom to the top of the structure, the birds appear to be taking flight and flying away. The overhead panels show the six different bird species featured on the side panels, with eighteen silhouettes in total. The design of the structure was inspired by the work of the artist's mother, Annette Barbier, particularly her final piece of public art, which remained unfinished at the time of her death in 2017.

  • Clyde Beavers, cello
    Brenton Carter, bass

  • Folksong / Pablo Casals – Song of the Birds
    Rossini – Duet for Cello and Bass

  • 5:10 - 5:35

    6:00 - 6:25

    6:50 - 7:15

    7:35 - 8:00

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  • Fly Away

    by Céline Browning

Site 4: Percussion

  • Barnacle by Kari Reardon

    Reardon Artist Statement: My work is inspired by a variety of sources ranging from personal memories, dreams, biology, absurdities to fairy tales. Through clusters and repetition I create a sense of movement and growth by which my objects share a sense of their own passage of time and history. Mixed media allows me to explore and play with texture and the contrasts of organic vs. man-made. By working intuitively I allow each one of my pieces to lead me down the path of self-exploration. Their purpose is to manufacture the fantastic and to evoke both a childlike wonder and a dark psychological underside where monsters still exist and memories and dreams blur in and out of reality.

    The One That Got Away by Gordon Gildersleeve

    Gildersleeve Artist Statement: "Life is so precious, and I fear so many of us are so busy planning and waiting to enjoy it that it may sail right past at that last minute to board… " - Gordon Gildersleeve in ACE Magazine, February 2024.

  • Brady Harrison, percussion

  • Steve Reich - Violin Phase

  • 4:15 - 4:40

    5:05 - 5:30

    6:00 - 6:25

    7:00 - 7:25

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  • Barnacle

    by Kari Reardon

  • The One That Got Away

    by Gordon Gildersleeve

Site 5: Woodwind Quintet

  • Linda Bruckheimer: Lost and Found Farmscapes

    Photographer and author Linda Bruckheimer has travelled Kentucky’s countryside to document the American farmstead. She captures the cultural, physical, and historical significance of the disappearing rural landscape and ways of life that shape our regional heritage.

    A nostalgic symbol of Kentucky’s agricultural past and present, these farm images are a testament to the enduring beauty and perseverance of rural Kentucky. Josephine Sculpture Park is part of Kentucky’s agricultural legacy, established in 2009 on what had been the family farm of Founding Director Melanie VanHouten.

    JSP’s event barn was once a tobacco barn built in the 1960s, abandoned in the 1990s, and restored in 2021. JSP protects the rural landscape by conserving 40 acres of native wildflower meadows, fields, and woodlands.

  • Michael O’Brien, flute
    Bonnie Farr, oboe
    Erin Fung, clarinet
    Corbin Krebs, bassoon
    Andrew Bass, horn

  • Valerie Coleman - Umoja
    Samuel Barber - Summer Music
    Ligeti - Bagatelles
    1. Allegro con spirito
    3. Allegro grazioso
    4. Presto ruvido

  • 4:50 - 5:15

    5:40 - 6:05

    6:40 - 7:05

    7:35 - 8:00

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  • Linda Bruckheimer: Lost and Found Farmscapes

    Event Barn

Site 6: LexPhil MusicLab

  • The LexPhil MusicLab, formally the Instrument Petting Zoo, is a portable studio that combines electronic and acoustic instruments and other technology for a fun, hands-on experience that provides an opportunity for participants of all ages and abilities to make music while simultaneously learning about the science of sound and electricity.

  • Metamorpho-Nest by Andrea Wilson Mueller

    All living things are born or sprouted, grow, die, and are reborn. We live through different stages within our lives with transformations and awakenings—like the caterpillar that becomes a butterfly or moth or the plant that goes dormant and comes back for many seasons throughout many years.

    This sculpture of nests symbolizes the cradle for hatching/ birth; the reincarnation and metamorphosis of invasive species (Japanese bush honeysuckle) to become something entirely new; and growth through a diverse selection of plants to host and feed butterfly and moth species.

    As a natural sculpture, this place and it’s elements within will go through metamorphosis and grow with the park while creating habitat for the species to also go through metamorphosis.

  • Open between 4PM and 8PM.

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  • Metamorpho-Nest

    by Andrea Wilson Mueller

Site 7: 5th Anniversary Community Mural

  • At Symphonic Stroll, paint a community mural celebrating the event's 5th anniversary with local teaching artist Leah Childs.

    Leah is an artist and teacher born and raised in Frankfort, KY. She is the Senior Program Leader at Yes Arts, Ceramics Instructor at Broadway Clay, and owner of LJC Studio. Growing up in a small, rural town, Leah developed a deep appreciation for the power of creativity and community.

    Her experience fuels a strong desire to create a welcoming, collaborative space for the arts.

  • GRAPHOLOGYHENGE by Peyton Scott Russell

    GRAPHOLOGYHENGE is a site-specific earthwork and sculptural installation at Josephine Sculpture Park by artist Peyton Scott Russell (Minneapolis, MN).

    “Graphology is the study of lettering, typography, and hand writing that captures a personal identity,” shares Russell, and “-henge” alludes to "a large circle of earth, stone, or wood that encloses a space of special importance."

    Together, GRAPHOLOGYHENGE is a sanctuary and safe space for graffiti art. It's a circle that invites people to make a personal mark or signature, write or paint a message, and leave evidence that you were there to visit.

  • Open between 4PM and 8PM.

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  • GRAPHOLOGYHENGE

    by Peyton Scott Russell

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