A Sculptor of Social Allegories: The Worldly Visions of Tom Otterness Tom Otterness, born in Wichita, Kansas in 1952, emerged as a significant voice in American public art during a period when the boundaries between high art and everyday life were increasingly blurred. His journey began with formal studies at the Art Students League of New York and an Independent Study Program at the Whitney Museum of American Art, but it was his involvement with the collaborative artists’ group Colab that truly ignited his artistic trajectory. Colab, a pioneering collective active in the late 1970s, foster…