After discussing the art in public places opportunities in McMinnville, OR, we were lucky enough to have 2 sculptures placed out there for a year. My Dreams sculpture (a girls reading atop a stack of books) is in front of the library and Ben Franklin has been installed in the plaza of the 3rd Street historic area downtown. The citizens of McMinnville are raising funds to be able to keep these sculptures in the city.

Bill Miller, an awesome photographer, took some shots of these 2 sculptures for us. The library director told me that during the cold snap that they had a couple months ago, they showed up to the library to find an anonymous individual had lovingly wrapped a scarf around the sculpture. Isn’t that cool to see that people are so attached to the sculpture?!

Bill took these shots of Ben Franklin over a 30 minute period to show how many people interact with the sculpture. Ben, you’re pretty popular with the ladies and younger crowd! The large group was a tour by an art professor on the subject of public artworks. They were able to use Ben in his lecture. I hope that the citizens can raise enough funds to keep both sculptures in McMinnville.

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