James Peniston

Peniston's 2007 Keys To Community stands in Girard Fountain Park in the Old City neighborhood of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Location: 39°57′09″N 75°08′47″W / 39.952414°N 75.146301°W / 39.952414; -75.146301
The surface of Keys To Community is textured with casts of about 1,000 keys donated by local schoolchildren.
Peniston's 1998 Mendel stands by the science building at Villanova University outside Philadelphia.

James Peniston (born 1973) is an American sculptor whose monumental works in bronze include Gregor Mendel (1998), Keys To Community (2007), and American Pharoah (2017).

Peniston worked on the 2004 National World War II Memorial in Washington, D.C., for which he helped design the stainless-steel armature that holds up the bronze eagles and wreaths under the Atlantic and Pacific arches.[1]

Peniston is also a cofounder and arts director of Studio 34: Yoga Healing Arts, a yoga and creative arts center in West Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.[2]

  1. ^ "James Peniston Sculpture: Bio". Archived from the original on 2008-07-25. Retrieved 2008-09-09.
  2. ^ "About Us: Studio 34 Yoga Healing Arts". Archived from the original on 2013-12-09. Retrieved 2008-11-28.