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Pelican migrates to the museum
January 13, 2007
The latest Pelicans on Parade sculpture, a “Bird Swirl Pelican,” flew the coop from its studio at Klamath Union High School to the main hall of the Klamath County Museum.
About a dozen KU students helped museum staff make the move Friday morning in bone-numbing 15-degrees temperatures. The spiraling sculpture - the main pelican is about 7 feet tall while its “bird swirl” of attached birds make it about 10-feet high - was moved in an open trailer.
Museum director Todd Kepple said the main challenge was moving the sculpture through the museum doors.
Moving pains
“It just barely fit,” he said. “It creaked and groaned. We heard cracking sounds, but it never fell apart.”
Work on the finished project was directed by KU art teacher Justin Coulter. Along with an American white pelican by artist Stefan Savides, students sculpted and painted 16 bird species later cast by KU teacher Brian Palmer and his welding students.
The attached birds include a northern flicker, Forster's tern, red-tailed hawk, black-capped chickadee, great horned owl, spotted towhee, tree swallow, western tanager, eared grebe, Canada goose, California quail, American wigeon, American avocet, steller's jay, American kestrel and western meadowlark. The newest POP! pelican was sponsored by the Klamath Basin Ecosystem Restoration Office through an Outreach and Education grant focusing on migratory birds in the Klamath Basin.
POP! project helps
POP! is a public art fundraiser that focuses on the Klamath Basin as a top birding hotspot, said organizer Kathy Larson.
“We are fortunate to have American white pelicans that nest here in the summer and want to keep it that way for future generations,” she said. “Through the POP! art project we are bringing people together in a positive way, boosting community pride and raising awareness of the wealth of birds in our area and how we can protect them. POP! also showcases the extraordinary talents of our local area artists whose exceptional creativity now highlights our town.”
Larson said there are 15 painted pelican sculptures “and more are coming.”
KU students involved with the Bird Swirl include Tyson Crofoot, Erick Arias, Savannah Crain, Jose Avila, Elizabeth Garcia, Steven King, Rocky Irion, Daniel McGinn, Maricela Pena, Abbey Videtich, Jennifer Sayre, Annie Anderson, Jordan Bercot, Jimmy Jackson, Jordan Moore, Kenneth Juttner, Chelsea Leach, Whitney Shults, Darrell Yazzie, Miles Steege, Claire Rose, Nicki Petty, Alyssa Lopez, Sean King, Karalisa Fritch, Tiffanie Frei and Travis Augistine.
For more about POP! and photos of other pelicans visit their Web site at www.pelicanson
parade.com.
By LEE JUILLERAT
The latest Pelicans on Parade sculpture, a “Bird Swirl Pelican,” flew the coop from its studio at Klamath Union High School to the main hall of the Klamath County Museum.
About a dozen KU students helped museum staff make the move Friday morning in bone-numbing 15-degrees temperatures. The spiraling sculpture - the main pelican is about 7 feet tall while its “bird swirl” of attached birds make it about 10-feet high - was moved in an open trailer.
Museum director Todd Kepple said the main challenge was moving the sculpture through the museum doors.
Moving pains
“It just barely fit,” he said. “It creaked and groaned. We heard cracking sounds, but it never fell apart.”
Work on the finished project was directed by KU art teacher Justin Coulter. Along with an American white pelican by artist Stefan Savides, students sculpted and painted 16 bird species later cast by KU teacher Brian Palmer and his welding students.
The attached birds include a northern flicker, Forster's tern, red-tailed hawk, black-capped chickadee, great horned owl, spotted towhee, tree swallow, western tanager, eared grebe, Canada goose, California quail, American wigeon, American avocet, steller's jay, American kestrel and western meadowlark. The newest POP! pelican was sponsored by the Klamath Basin Ecosystem Restoration Office through an Outreach and Education grant focusing on migratory birds in the Klamath Basin.
POP! project helps
POP! is a public art fundraiser that focuses on the Klamath Basin as a top birding hotspot, said organizer Kathy Larson.
“We are fortunate to have American white pelicans that nest here in the summer and want to keep it that way for future generations,” she said. “Through the POP! art project we are bringing people together in a positive way, boosting community pride and raising awareness of the wealth of birds in our area and how we can protect them. POP! also showcases the extraordinary talents of our local area artists whose exceptional creativity now highlights our town.”
Larson said there are 15 painted pelican sculptures “and more are coming.”
KU students involved with the Bird Swirl include Tyson Crofoot, Erick Arias, Savannah Crain, Jose Avila, Elizabeth Garcia, Steven King, Rocky Irion, Daniel McGinn, Maricela Pena, Abbey Videtich, Jennifer Sayre, Annie Anderson, Jordan Bercot, Jimmy Jackson, Jordan Moore, Kenneth Juttner, Chelsea Leach, Whitney Shults, Darrell Yazzie, Miles Steege, Claire Rose, Nicki Petty, Alyssa Lopez, Sean King, Karalisa Fritch, Tiffanie Frei and Travis Augistine.
For more about POP! and photos of other pelicans visit their Web site at www.pelicanson
parade.com.
By LEE JUILLERAT
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