Open Mon-Sat May 1st- Oct 30th.
HOURS 10 AM - 3 PM
The need for a gallery to house the permanent collection of sculptor John Lopez’s works has come to life through the renovation of the Kokomo building which is accidentally but rightfully positioned to serve that purpose. With this in place, visitors will have a real life experience of John Lopez sculptures captured in a single space.
The choice of Kokomo was unplanned but John’s creative expedition led him to the building. The initial idea was to create a park to immortalize the Legendary Ed Lemmon and to which he purchased the two lots that are now Boss Cowman Square. After spending the entire summer of 2016 transforming the empty lot into a world class park, John’s visiting friends from Nigeria, Dotun Popoola and Jonathan Imafidor painted a mural against the long south wall of the Kokomo building. The mural is supposed to serve as a background for John Lopez sculpture of Ed Lemmon. In a bid to save the park and the beautiful mural from the ageing wall of the empty Kokomo building that was bedeviled with neglect and faced with plodding decay, John decided to turn the ‘stone the builders rejected, to a chief corner stone’. The Kokomo will now serve as the official gallery of John Lopez sculptures. Dotun Popoola and Jonathan Imafidor’s ‘Diary of Two Visual Anthropologists’ will be the maiden exhibition of the Kokomo. If your are looking for things to do on the way to the musical in Medora, North Dakota this is the perfect stop for you and your roadies.
Open Mon-Sat May 1st- Oct 30th.
HOURS 10 AM - 3 PM
Sculpture Garden
Plans for a new sculpture garden are underway for the empty lot south of the Kokomo where the old Jerry’s Hardware building once stood. Visitors that want to experience John’s work in person are free to walk through the garden all hours of the day and then enter the Kokomo Gallery during business hours.