{"id":105511,"date":"2016-08-09T16:57:20","date_gmt":"2016-08-09T21:57:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=105511"},"modified":"2016-08-10T09:01:49","modified_gmt":"2016-08-10T14:01:49","slug":"hansen-arts-park-sculpture-creator-to-arrive","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=105511","title":{"rendered":"Hansen Arts Park sculpture creator to arrive"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/ArtsParkGRASS.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-105544\" src=\"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/ArtsParkGRASS-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"ArtsParkGRASS\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/ArtsParkGRASS-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/ArtsParkGRASS-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/ArtsParkGRASS-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/ArtsParkGRASS-233x175.jpg 233w, https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/ArtsParkGRASS.jpg 1296w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>Jamestown (CSi)\u00a0 The Jamestown Arts Center reports that \u00a0the creator of the Hansen Art Park\u2019s signature sculpture arrives this week.\u00a0Owen William Fritts, a sculptor from Flagstaff, Arizona will spend the upcoming weeks on-site building the\u00a0<em>Prairie Grass Ballet<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>The sculpture is a direct reference to the grasslands and prairies surrounding Jamestown. Large, aluminum\u00a0blades of grass have been\u00a0created\u00a0in the artist\u2019s studio. These will be embedded in granite. These bases will serve as both\u00a0anchor for the\u00a0grasses and public seating. The artist will \u00a0inscribe the boulders with words\u00a0drawn from North Dakota writers and poets.<\/p>\n<p>Periodically, there will be opportunities to interact with Fritts, to hear what he is doing and also to watch the progress. Please watch for a schedule in the news. Jamestown Tourism, in coordination with The Arts Center, has installed a time lapse camera to record\u00a0progress on the sculpture. These images will be shared on our website.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Fritts will be looking for assistance in a variety of tasks associated with the sculpture\u2019s installation. If you are interested in helping, please contact The Arts Center at 701-251-2496.<\/strong> Working on such a project is sure to be a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity for\u00a0all who are involved\u2013be part of making something that will change the character of downtown Jamestown and\u00a0have a presence in the community for many years.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jamestown (CSi)\u00a0 The Jamestown Arts Center reports that \u00a0the creator of the Hansen Art Park\u2019s signature sculpture arrives this week.\u00a0Owen William Fritts, a sculptor from Flagstaff, Arizona will spend the upcoming weeks on-site building the\u00a0Prairie Grass Ballet. The sculpture is a direct reference to the grasslands and prairies surrounding Jamestown. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":105547,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-105511","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-jamestown"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/105511","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=105511"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/105511\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":105546,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/105511\/revisions\/105546"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/105547"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=105511"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=105511"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=105511"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}