200-Pound Ballerina Statue Installed In Downtown Haddonfield

HADDONFIELD, NJ - A 200-pound bronze ballerina now welcomes visitors to Haddonfield. The sculpture by Barry Woods Johnston was put in place in Downtown Haddonfield earlier this week.

The six-foot wide, six-foot tall, 20-inch deep ballerina is in place at the “Welcome to Haddonfield” circle at intersection of Haddon Avenue and Ellis Street, across the street from the Acme.

Johnston brought the sculpture, which is among the artist’s many works which capture energized form and anatomy in motion with robust, gravity-defying sculptures, up from Baltimore.

Johnston is loaning the statue to the borough through the Haddonfield Outdoor Sculpture Trust (HOST) for two years, according to NJ Pen. Other works in HOST’s local collection include pieces by Seward Johnson, Joshua Koffman, and Ken Ross.

The attached images were taken by Rita Bulk of Haddonfield Living magazine and provided by HOST.

Image 1: from left: John Giannotti, Stuart Harting and Barry Woods Johnston.

Image 2: From left are: Stuart Harting, Founder and Chair of the Haddonfield Outdoor Sculpture Trust; Ben Scott, of Haddonfield, with back to camera; sculptor Barry Woods Johnston (white hair); Matt Skoufalos; and John Giannotti (in cap), Haddonfield sculptor who created the Hadrosaurus sculpture among many other pieces.