Musica

The public art known as Musica in downtown Nashville was created by Alan LeQuire in 2003, which also happens to be his largest sculpture to date. The statue is located on a grassy knoll at the center of a roundabout where Division Street, Demumbreum, and 17th Avenue South all meet. Featuring nine nude figures, both male and female, the statue is approximately 38 feet tall. All the figures are in a circular pattern dancing together. There are five at the base and the remaining four rise up in the center. the artist LeQuire stated that his concept behind Musica was to "make a statement about individualism/diversity and racial harmony." In fact, using live models to help sculpt the people for the piece, he was accurately able to create two Caucasian women and one Caucasian man, an African American man and woman, one Asian woman, a Native American man, and a Hispanic man and woman. Although there was some early controversy over the nudity of the piece, the public artwork is now, and will forever be, a known landmark in the city of Nashville.