Mount Vernon Area Arts Council and the Mount Vernon Parks and Recreation department have selected the next sculpture for the sculpture art trail.

The committee received 24 different applications this year, and selected Three Feathers as the piece to be installed.

Parks and recreation director and sculpture art trail committee member Bob Campagna said the proposed placement for the Three Feathers sculpture is in a spot adjacent to the trail along First Street.

“As you’re walking the trail, you’ll be staring more up at the piece, and as you’re driving along the road, you’ll see it more at eye level from the street,” Campagna said.

The feathers stand at 10, 12 and 14 feet in height, and Mount Vernon Area Arts Council member Marie DeVries said that it features diverse materials not used in other sculptures.

Three Feathers is one of three sculptures that will be installed to the trail this year, with another by David Riga going at the top of the trail near First Street entrance and an archway being created by Liberty Iron Works by Dale Merrill to go at the southern entrance to the trail.

DeVries and Campagna also highlighted the number of spots that could feature a sculpture in the art trail as this is designed over the next 10 years.

Council member Paul Tuerler said the number of sculpture spaces presented felt like a lot.

“It’s almost like there’d be too many to be able to focus on just one,” Tuerler said.

Campagna said that the map were places along the path that sculptures could be placed, not that each would feature a sculpture.

Council member Craig Engel concurred that having too many sculptures would be equivalent to a wall with too many paintings – the impact being a little overwhelming.