On July 17, 2024, the Atherton City Council has considered the matter of the offer by the Gardner family to loan the sculpture to the town for public display within its beautiful new town center. The council spoke highly of the sculpture and unanimously approved the proposed terms of the loan, pending finalization of details between the City Attorney and the Gardner family. You can view the recording of the session. (Read more here . . . )
As it happens, Celebration has been released from its service position marking the entrance to the private day school where it has been for the last eighteen years. It is on the move and will be placed in a new location that is fully accessible to the public sometime this summer. (Continue reading here . . . )
It has been almost five years since my father passed away, and I wanted to go see his last and possibly most commanding sculpture in Palo Alto. So, with the weather cooperating, I dusted off my bike and rode down to Palo Alto to relive some wonderful memories of collaborating with him to produce this monumental piece of art. (Continue reading here . . . )
Norman Scott Gardner, a life-long artist and humorist, died Saturday in Boca Raton at the age of 89, from complications from Alzheimers disease, according to members of his immediate family. (Continue reading here . . . )
Sculptor Norman Scott Gardner returns to the site of Celebration at the Gideon Hausner Jewish Day School to see how his monumental piece of art work is doing. He was pleased to find that things looked great and the landscaping was growing beautifully. (Continue reading here . . . )
Norman and Katy Gardner return to California from Florida to spend time with granddaughters Amelia, Sarah and Mila, the youngest of their grandchildren. Mila comes to visit her cousins in Atherton and succeeds in enrapturing everyone, especially her grandparents. ( Watch the video of this visit here . . . )
Sculptor and treehouse designer extraordinaire, Norman Gardner, returns to the scene of the crime in northern California over Passover 2007 to enjoy watching his grandchildren play in the treehouse that he completed in early 2006. Also to share a delicious berry snack with them, as all children have inherited Grandpa’s love of berries. (Read more here . . . )
Norman Gardner oversees the final installation of his monumental sculpture “Celebration” in time for its unveiling on Grandparents Day in May of 2006. He is presented with a Certificate of Appreciation by Marlene Sturm and Gerry Elgarten and feted with a reception in his honor for the school following the ceremony. (Read more about this ceremony here . . . )
JULY 20, 2024: Celebration is Coming to Atherton
JANUARY 27, 2024: Celebration is Moving
MARCH 13, 2022: A Bicycle Visit to Celebration.
OCTOBER 28, 2017: Obituary: Norman Gardner, Artist and Humorist, dies at age 89.
FEBRUARY 14, 2013: A Visit to Celebration.
APRIL, 2010: Grandparents Visit with Young Mila.
APRIL, 2007: Berries with Grandbabies.
MAY, 2006: Celebrating the Unveiling of “Celebration.”