“We Couldn’t Have Bought that Publicity” Haddonfield Outdoor Sculpture Trust Reaches Downtown and Beyond
ABIGAIL TWIFORD Date: June 30, 2025
As you walk around the streets of Haddonfield, it is almost impossible to go without noticing a number of sculptures and other public art displays throughout the borough.
From the Children’s Sculpture Zoo, a collection of bronze animal sculptures to the “Low-Poly Open Heart” on Kings Highway to “The Mailman” on Haddon Avenue.
The majority of these public sculptures and art installations can be credited to the work of the Haddonfield Outdoor Sculpture Trust or HOST, a public/ private partnership that aims to enhance the downtown landscape with figurative and abstract pieces and educate the public on art.
Stuart Harting is the founder and chair of the Trust. He first got the idea for HOST in 2012. From the late 1980s until 2004, Harting had a relationship with the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts (PAFA), running a scholarship and displaying the sculptural works of senior students in a riverside restaurant in Philadelphia.
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