New sculpture downtown pays tribute to Stuart Padnos

GVL Staff

An ArtPrize sculpture in honor of the late Stuart Padnos was installed Sept. 4 outside the courtyard entrance to the Eberhard Center at the Pew Campus. Padnos was the former senior vice president at Louis Padnos Iron and Metal Co., and he passed away in April. The sculpture, which weighs in at 2,500 pounds and stands at six feet, was the idea of some employees of the company. It was constructed in two pieces in Holland, and the parts were then bolted together at the installation. Each piece of the ArtPrize sculpture represents a piece of work that Padnos and Juan Luna – Padnos’s long-time project collaborator – made and worked on together.