Former Kosciusko Community Hospital CEO Milton Holmgrain is donating seven sculptures to Warsaw from his personal collection. Here, Holmgrain, right, stands with the Warsaw Public Arts Commission’s Suzie Light. Photo provided.

By Leah Sander
InkFreeNews

WARSAW — Warsaw is getting seven new sculptures thanks to a former Kosciusko Community Hospital CEO.

At its meeting on Friday, Oct. 21, the Warsaw Board of Works and Safety accepted the art donation from Milton Holmgrain.

“I met with the (Warsaw) Public Arts Commission two nights ago and we discussed Milton Holmgrain had approached us about donating seven sculptures that Milt has helped design and collected over the years,” said Board Member and Warsaw Mayor Joe Thallemer. “They’re exterior sculptures and they’ve been out in his yard and he will be leaving the community and wanted to try and find a permanent home for the sculptures.”

Three of the sculptures are named: “Peacock,” “Joker,” and “Wing Totem.”

Thallemer said Holmgrain previously donated a sculpture to the city, “the aluminum sculpture down at Central Park.”

“Milt joked that he had done that to try and get other people to follow suit and not much has happened in that way until the public arts commission was formed,” said Thallemer.

Holmgrain requested that the city put a small plaque on each sculpture noting that he and his late wife Marie Holmgrain donated the art, which Warsaw will comply with. The specific locations for the sculptures weren’t announced at Friday’s meeting.