Carroll Todd

born 1954, Memphis, lives in Memphis
Calvary parishioner

Altar

2025

steel, bronze, stone

 

May’s Garden

2011

bronze

in memory of May Snowden Todd

 

Carroll Todd’s artistic practice explores form and movement with an effortlessness and grace rarely present in metalwork. He is celebrated for whimsical bronze sculptures that are formally sophisticated but never solemn. Encouraged to play, explore, and build in his childhood, he developed an appreciation for creative construction at a young age. Drawing influence from modernist design, his representations of animals and natural elements range from quite literal to total abstraction, and at times fall somewhere in between.

 

Calvary commissioned Altar to anchor the new Bethlehem Chapel. The stone surface formed the altar of the original Bethlehem Chapel (circa 1968), located in the undercroft at Calvary.

 

May’s Garden draws on springtime as its subject, the season in the liturgical calendar when Christ prepares to die for our sins, symbolizing new beginnings and hope. This sculpture was given by friends and family of Carroll’s mother, May Snowden Todd, a lifelong Calvary parishioner, the past president of Women of Calvary Church, and lover of gardens–and bunnies.