One Man’s Vision: “A Significant Regional Center for Juried Outdoor Sculpture…in the Great Tradition of Public Art”
Date: May-June 2025
The Haddonfield Outdoor Sculpture Trust (HOST) was created in 2013 to transform the walkable, attractive, and historically important Borough of Haddonfield into a significant regional center for juried outdoor sculpture in the great tradition of public art.
The Trust acts through an innovative public-private partnership that solicits and supports both the permanent and rotational placement of both contemporary and traditional public art in the Borough.
And the man whose vision is encapsulated in today’s collection of more than two dozen sculptures with a value in excess of $600,000 is retired Philadelphia real estate developer and long-time Haddonfield resident, Stuart Harting. A successful real estate developer and investor, Harting has lived in the Borough since 1988 and has served for more than a decade as a member the Borough’s Planning Board.
HOST is managed by an all-volunteer Board, is community-based, has earned IRS tax-exempt status as a 501(c)3 corporation, and receives no public funds.
Since its founding HOST has also brought more than three dozen works of art (with a value well in excess of $1 million) to the region —many on a rotational basis. Sculptors from around the country and the world have been represented with a potpourri of art, including a ballerina, a postman, a giant red heart, and a baby hippopotamus, as well as seven animals at the Children’s Outdoor Sculpture Zoo.
In addition to its core program of purchasing and maintaining sculpture and managing a significant effort to bring rotational sculptures to the Borough on a temporary basis, the Trust has developed and actively manages four other core initiatives: Children’s Outdoor Sculpture Zoo (the only such…..
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