I'm going to kick off my blogging of 2012 with what I'm most excited about: The Dedham Public Art Project. What is it you ask? Remember the cows of Chicago? I'm sure there were others before it, but for some reason I feel like everyone knows and remembers the cows. Dedham is going to have its own version of this kind of public art with large uniquely painted bunnies. Why bunnies? Dedham Pottery of course!
This project will not only continue to rally and cultivate our growing artist scene, but will thousands of visitors to our town to see them! Thanks to the work of Board of Selectmen, Paul Reynolds, founder of this project, we will see the bunnies start hopping out this spring! There will be 15 scattered around town. With Dedham Open Studios on the horizon in May and the fabulous artists the Dedham Artist Guild has uncovered there is no shortage of talented people in this town.
If you, your group or business is interested in sponsoring a bunny email: dedhamshines@gmail.com.
I am so excited about this! We visit family every year in Belfast, ME. They do this as well they started with bears but now have moved on to seat/benches. We love making the rounds to try and see all of them and take our picture with them before we leave. I can't wait to do it right here in Dedham !
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I'm excited about the public art coming to town!
ReplyDeleteI had visited a college friend in Naperville, IL, back in the late '90s. We walked through the utopia-of-a-town and there was so much public art around there. I just decided to look it up and here's a description. Yeah for Dedham.
http://www.centurywalk.org/about/index.cfm
Settler's Green in North Conway, NH does something similar every year - artists design snowmen that are put out at the shops...this year I noticed that area school kids made ornaments for the trees as well...very cool! Can't wait to see the bunnies...
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