{"id":4126,"date":"2017-11-28T00:21:23","date_gmt":"2017-11-28T05:21:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gregcookland.com\/wonderland\/?p=4126"},"modified":"2017-12-07T06:42:42","modified_gmt":"2017-12-07T11:42:42","slug":"nancy-schon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gregcookland.com\/wonderland\/2017\/11\/28\/nancy-schon\/","title":{"rendered":"Thoughts On Art And Life From The Sculptor Of Ducklings In Boston\u2019s Public Garden, Nancy Sch\u00f6n"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_4129\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-4129\" style=\"width: 207px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"https:\/\/gregcookland.com\/wonderland\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/1122_SchonBookCover.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-4129\" src=\"https:\/\/gregcookland.com\/wonderland\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/1122_SchonBookCover-207x300.jpg\" alt=\"Nancy Sch\u00f6n's memoir \u201cMake Way for Nancy.&quot; (Courtesy)\" width=\"207\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/gregcookland.com\/wonderland\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/1122_SchonBookCover-207x300.jpg 207w, https:\/\/gregcookland.com\/wonderland\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/1122_SchonBookCover-768x1116.jpg 768w, https:\/\/gregcookland.com\/wonderland\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/1122_SchonBookCover-705x1024.jpg 705w, https:\/\/gregcookland.com\/wonderland\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/1122_SchonBookCover-370x537.jpg 370w, https:\/\/gregcookland.com\/wonderland\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/1122_SchonBookCover.jpg 1500w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 207px) 100vw, 207px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-4129\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Nancy Sch\u00f6n&#8217;s memoir \u201cMake Way for Nancy.&#8221; (Courtesy)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>\u201cI wanted my sculptures to be outdoors in parks, where people of all ages could touch and enjoy them,\u201d writes Nancy Sch\u00f6n, the West Newton artist best known for her 1987 sculpture of Mrs. Mallard and her bronze ducklings waddling through Boston\u2019s Public Garden \u2014 inspired by Robert McCloskey&#8217;s beloved 1941 children\u2019s book \u201cMake Way for Ducklings.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>On the occasion of the publication this fall of her memoir, \u201cMake Way for Nancy&#8221; (David R. Godine Publisher), I talked with her about why she makes public art, how to be an artist and a parent, the need to make your own opportunities, being sweet and tough, being ready to fail, and keeping promises.<\/p>\n<p>Read the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wbur.org\/artery\/2017\/11\/27\/nancy-schon\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">whole article here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_4128\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-4128\" style=\"width: 900px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/gregcookland.com\/wonderland\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/picPubMakeWayDucklings140601_0065w.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-large wp-image-4128\" src=\"https:\/\/gregcookland.com\/wonderland\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/picPubMakeWayDucklings140601_0065w-1024x681.jpg\" alt=\"Nancy Sch\u00f6n \u201cMake Way for Ducklings&quot; sculptures in Boston's Public Garden. (Greg Cook)\" width=\"900\" height=\"599\" srcset=\"https:\/\/gregcookland.com\/wonderland\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/picPubMakeWayDucklings140601_0065w-1024x681.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/gregcookland.com\/wonderland\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/picPubMakeWayDucklings140601_0065w-300x199.jpg 300w, https:\/\/gregcookland.com\/wonderland\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/picPubMakeWayDucklings140601_0065w-768x511.jpg 768w, https:\/\/gregcookland.com\/wonderland\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/picPubMakeWayDucklings140601_0065w-370x246.jpg 370w, https:\/\/gregcookland.com\/wonderland\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/picPubMakeWayDucklings140601_0065w.jpg 1170w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 900px) 100vw, 900px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-4128\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Nancy Sch\u00f6n \u201cMake Way for Ducklings&#8221; sculptures in Boston&#8217;s Public Garden. (Greg Cook)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cI wanted my sculptures to be outdoors in parks, where people of all ages could touch and enjoy them,\u201d writes Nancy Sch\u00f6n, the West Newton artist best known for her 1987 sculpture of Mrs. Mallard and her bronze ducklings waddling through Boston\u2019s Public Garden \u2014 inspired by Robert McCloskey&#8217;s beloved 1941 children\u2019s book \u201cMake Way [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4128,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[100,107,105],"tags":[37,31,121],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregcookland.com\/wonderland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4126"}],"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=4126"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/gregcookland.com\/wonderland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4126\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4132,"href":"https:\/\/gregcookland.com\/wonderland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4126\/revisions\/4132"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregcookland.com\/wonderland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4128"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregcookland.com\/wonderland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4126"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregcookland.com\/wonderland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4126"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregcookland.com\/wonderland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4126"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}