Friends of St. Charles Public Library to unveil outdoor sculpture Oct. 3

The Friends of St. Charles Public Library announced a sculpture unveiling ceremony at the St. Charles Public Library at 5:30 p.m. Monday, Oct. 3.

According to a news release, the unveiling will be in the Terrace Garden with refreshments to follow in the Huntley Community Room. The organization’s most recent project was the commissioning of an outdoor sculpture to be placed in the Terrace Garden at the library.

Local artists were invited to submit proposals and St. Charles artist Danielle Casali’s proposal was chosen. Casali has a master’s degree in fine arts from Northern Illinois University and is an adjunct professor at Elmhurst University and Waubonsee Community College. She has a number of large-scale murals and painted murals in the area: Third Street in Geneva across from the Courthouse, H.C. Storm and J. B. Nelson schools in Batavia, Reavis and Williston Halls at NIU and Elmhurst University Memorial Hall, according to the release.

For more information on the event, call 630-584-0076, ext. 231 or visit https://www.scpld.org/friends-st-charles-public-library.

The St. Charles Public Library is located at 1 S. Sixth Ave. in St. Charles.