{"id":385,"date":"2015-01-22T14:33:16","date_gmt":"2015-01-22T19:33:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gregcookland.com\/wonderland\/?p=385"},"modified":"2017-11-26T20:10:40","modified_gmt":"2017-11-27T01:10:40","slug":"concerned-citizen-planned-sculpture-would-be-wound-to-bangor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gregcookland.com\/wonderland\/2015\/01\/22\/concerned-citizen-planned-sculpture-would-be-wound-to-bangor\/","title":{"rendered":"Concerned Citizen: Planned sculpture would be &#8216;wound&#8217; to Bangor"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A floating sculpture planned for Bangor, Maine,\u00a0would be <a href=\"http:\/\/bangordailynews.com\/2015\/01\/22\/opinion\/contributors\/art-in-bangor-or-a-wound-to-the-heart-of-the-city\/?ref=OpinionBox\">&#8220;a\u00a0wound to the heart of the city,&#8221;<\/a> charges\u00a0Fritz Spencer of Old Town, Maine, the former editor of the Christian Civic League Record, in a commentary published by the Bangor Daily News on Jan. 22.<\/p>\n<p>He&#8217;s complaining about &#8220;Buoy,&#8221; a temporary project that artist Anna Hepler of Eastport, Maine, aims to install next summer.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I propose to make a monumental fiberglass buoy-like floating sculpture to be anchored in the Kenduskeag Stream as it passes by the University of Maine Museum of Art in downtown Bangor,&#8221; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bangormaine.gov\/filestorage\/2418\/3898\/Item3CCD.pdf\">she writes<\/a> in a cultural grant application to the city. &#8220;This &#8216;Buoy&#8217; will measure approximately 8 x 9 x 10 feet, and will appear and disappear from ground level with the rising and falling 16-foot tides.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Hepler&#8217;s\u00a0art was featured <a href=\"http:\/\/annahepler.blogspot.com\/2010\/08\/makeshift-at-portland-museum-of-art.html\">at the Portland Museum of Art<\/a> in 2010, a show which was widely praised and won her several awards at the following <a href=\"http:\/\/gregcookland.com\/journal\/2011\/02\/09\/new-england-art-awards-winners-2\/\">New England Art Awards<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A floating sculpture planned for Bangor, Maine,\u00a0would be &#8220;a\u00a0wound to the heart of the city,&#8221; charges\u00a0Fritz Spencer of Old Town, Maine, the former editor of the Christian Civic League Record, in a commentary published by the Bangor Daily News on Jan. 22. He&#8217;s complaining about &#8220;Buoy,&#8221; a temporary project that artist Anna Hepler of Eastport, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":386,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[100],"tags":[15],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregcookland.com\/wonderland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/385"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregcookland.com\/wonderland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregcookland.com\/wonderland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregcookland.com\/wonderland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregcookland.com\/wonderland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=385"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/gregcookland.com\/wonderland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/385\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":390,"href":"https:\/\/gregcookland.com\/wonderland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/385\/revisions\/390"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregcookland.com\/wonderland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/386"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregcookland.com\/wonderland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=385"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregcookland.com\/wonderland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=385"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregcookland.com\/wonderland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=385"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}