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Austin public art projects net national kudo
National advocacy group Americans for the Arts selected two Austin public art projects in its 2010 Public Art in Review.
The ‘Year in Review’ recognizes 40 of the year’s best public art works in the United States and Canada. The works were chosen from nearly 400 entries from across the country.
Getting kudos are ‘Bait Box’ by Buster Graybill and ‘Mushroom Grove’ by Bill Davenport, temporary projects that were installed March through December 2009.
Both projects were a join effort of the 2009 Texas Biennial and the city of Austin’s Art in Public Places program. Austin was the only city to receive recognition for more than one project.
‘Bait Box’ ‘was temporarily installed on the east side of the Lady Bird Lake hike and bike trail and consisted of a 5-foot bronze catfish displayed on a green High Voltage box.
Read about ‘Bait Box’ here.
‘Mushroom Grove’ took up residence on the west side of Auditorium Shores and consisted of a 12-foot giant mushroom grove sculpture.
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