With Panoply, you see the whole scope of everybody in North Alabama. A lot of festivals I go to, it’s just art, no music. It’s a success because it’s such a variety. I’ve had people who were coming to Panoply just for the music, but they came through and purchased some art from me. When he brought his band to Huntsville for an appearance, I got to meet him and present it to him. I made a crazy guitar sculpture that had a lot of car parts and car-related items with it. He asked me to do a commission for Billy Bob Thornton, the actor and musician. Someone else I met through Panoply had some of my work and he liked it. I just learned it’s still at City Hall, in the lobby of the Mayor’s office. It was one of the first musical instrument players I made. I made a big metal guy playing a trumpet. They can hold beer cans and wine glasses, things like that. That’s what a lot of people know me from, my metal chickens that are functional. I have a few rockets in the works and a couple of musical things. I’ll have a few Huntsville-related things at my booth at Panoply this year.
I’ll do some small projects all the way up to public commissions. I do a lot of crazy artwork, one-of-a-kind things. Panoply is right there at the top … it’s first-class.” I’ve been a welder by trade and I taught myself traditional blacksmithing, and I’ve always incorporated the two. I do wrought-iron work – custom handrails, gates, things like that – for a living. I’ve gotten numerous commissions and all kinds of cool work by my being there. The Huntsville arts community has been very, very good to me. I think my first Panoply might have been 1997, and I’ve done it every year since.
Hammock shares with City Blog his appreciation for Panoply – and drops the name of a famous client. Hammock will be at the Artists’ Marketplace at Panoply – look for Clucked Up Metal Art - at which he’s been a participant for two decades. Davis Stadium into a multi-use complex for high school football, soccer, lacrosse and other events.David Hammock is an ironworker from Arab, Alabama who has combined his skills with whimsical humor to create unique sculptures, one of which stands guard outside Mayor Tommy Battle’s office at City Hall. Also added to the park, or in the works: new soccer and lacrosse fields, a disc golf course, a 15-acre festival site, walking and cycling paths, renovations of the Wilcoxon Ice Complex and a dramatic transformation for Joe W.
The addition of a new ballroom/multi-purpose space of 35,000 sq.Southern Brewers Cooperative - coming Fall 2021.Retail hub at Gaslight Alley - now open!.Food Garden, including Kamado Ramen, Oh Crepe, Pourhouse wine and cocktail bar, El Cazador, Fresko Grill, Parm & Pepper(now open!).
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