Malin’s Fountain, Pease Park’s Troll Sculpture, by Thomas Dambo, was completed in March of 2024 and will be in place for 15 years. Malin is a water protector. More than 80% of the materials used to build Austin’s beloved troll were recycled, repurposed, or found.

We invite you to take the Troll Trek to visit Malin. She is installed just north of Kingsbury Commons in a wooded area alongside the Shoal Creek trail.

To learn more about Malin, Thomas Dambo, and this art installation project, please visit our FAQs here.

If you need assistance visiting Malin, please reach out to us at info@peasepark.org.

La casa del árbol

As part of the redesign of Kingsbury Commons led by Ten Eyck Landscape Architects, Mell Lawrence and Clare van Montfrans created the Tree House to offer Pease Park visitors an immersive experience of the tree canopy, creating a place for both rambunctious play and quiet reflection for people of all ages and abilities.

The Tree House is open to the elements and engages all the senses - the sun provides warmth in the winter, leaves offer shade in the summer, the wind blows through. It carves out an elevated, occupiable void in the forest - as the canopy densifies over the years, the space will be defined more by the surrounding trees than the structure itself. A vertical lattice of rebar forms a reed-like enclosure, participating in the shadow play of the forest.

MYSTIC RAVEN

En colaboración con The Contemporary Austin y su programa Museum Without Walls , estamos encantados de acoger Mystic Raven de David Deming en Lamar Terrace, cerca de la calle 29 y Lamar. Deming enseñó en la Universidad de Texas en Austin de 1972 a 1996, siendo presidente del Departamento de Arte de 1992 a 1996 y decano de la Facultad de Bellas Artes de 1996 a 1998. Dejó la UT para trabajar como presidente del Instituto de Arte de Cleveland hasta su jubilación en 2010.

Mystic Raven es una escultura que evoca al hombre, al pájaro y a la máquina. Fue la primera pieza monumental colocada en el centro de Austin, donde se expuso frente al First City Centre de Congress Avenue. Las atrevidas formas de la escultura y su impresionante escala transmiten la sublime experiencia de sentirse abrumado por la naturaleza. Mystic Raven se realizó en 1983 como símbolo de crecimiento, cambio y progreso. La escultura también demuestra el interés de Deming por la física, y experimentó con el trípode como "símbolo de partes separadas unidas".

Enter the Dragonfly envisioned the ecological restoration and transformation of Shoal Creek as a healthy habitat for a diversity of native life. Dragonflies are one of the oldest and most reliable indicator species of a thriving and stable aquatic ecosystem.

Enter the Dragonfly was in Kingsbury Commons during 2024 and consisted of four larger-than-life metal dragonflies. Using scale and light, the sculptures visually brought attention to the critical relationship between urban and natural environments.

Yippee Ki Yay

Patrick Dougherty, world-renowned artist, created one of his majestic Stickwork sculptures in Pease Park in January 2018. Constructed entirely of locally-harvested invasive tree saplings, including ligustrum, depression willow, ash and elm, branches were woven into a monumental and imaginative sculpture along the Shoal Creek.

The interactive spirit of the project and its whimsical nature aimed to spark the imagination of park visitors and embody the goals of the Pease Park Conservancy to utilize public art as a tool to raise community consciousness and reinforce an authentic sense of place.