People are taking full advantage of beautiful weather at Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art, stepping outside to take a look at the surrounding trails.
Marilyn and Lewis Vits' children are in town from Wisconsin to celebrate the couple's 60th anniversary. Vits has visited Crystal Bridges before, but she's never taken the time to travel the museum's trails, and says she didn't know what she was missing.
"Nothing can prepare people for what they have here," she says. "It's beyond belief. You can write it up in the National Geographic."
Scott Eccleston designed the trail system and its lush landscapes. On Friday he hosted a discussion about the signature plants and grasses used on the museum grounds for the Outdoors at Crystal Bridges series. He decorated the land hoping to draw museum visitors into nature.
"People come to the museum, they think they're here to see art, and then they're like 'Whoa! There are trails outside, what's the deal with this landscape,'" Eccleston says. "It just leads people into the forest, and then we've created these surprises."
Mother nature isn't the only artist on display, sculptures, like Dan Ostermiller's "Shore Lunch" dot the landscape.
"I love how they can connect the art that people make to the art that nature can make," says Tori Correll. "From the flowers and the trees to the statues, it's great."
Eccleston says the three and a half miles of paved trails are just a starting point.
"We have so much to uncover here," he says. "We've just built the infrastructure, now we're going to start uncovering the secrets here at Crystal Bridges."
Marilyn and Lewis Vits' children are in town from Wisconsin to celebrate the couple's 60th anniversary. Vits has visited Crystal Bridges before, but she's never taken the time to travel the museum's trails, and says she didn't know what she was missing.
"Nothing can prepare people for what they have here," she says. "It's beyond belief. You can write it up in the National Geographic."
Scott Eccleston designed the trail system and its lush landscapes. On Friday he hosted a discussion about the signature plants and grasses used on the museum grounds for the Outdoors at Crystal Bridges series. He decorated the land hoping to draw museum visitors into nature.
"People come to the museum, they think they're here to see art, and then they're like 'Whoa! There are trails outside, what's the deal with this landscape,'" Eccleston says. "It just leads people into the forest, and then we've created these surprises."
Mother nature isn't the only artist on display, sculptures, like Dan Ostermiller's "Shore Lunch" dot the landscape.
"I love how they can connect the art that people make to the art that nature can make," says Tori Correll. "From the flowers and the trees to the statues, it's great."
Eccleston says the three and a half miles of paved trails are just a starting point.
"We have so much to uncover here," he says. "We've just built the infrastructure, now we're going to start uncovering the secrets here at Crystal Bridges."
