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Your message (click here): Please enter some message text. Published: 07:40 AM, Sun Jul 03, 2011Sculpture outside Arts Center in downtown Fayetteville inspires curiosity By Rodger MullenStaff writer
One passer-by likened it to Peter Pan.
Another said it looks like the Swamp Thing.
And still others said the statue outside the Arts Center in downtown Fayetteville looks like an Edgar Degas sculpture or a piece of African art.
Whatever the view, the life-sized sculpture depicting a female figure cloaked in leaves and reaching skyward has gotten attention since it was installed June 22.
"All day, every day, people are stopping, taking pictures of it, taking pictures of themselves with it," said Mary Kinney, marketing manager for the Arts Council of Fayetteville-Cumberland County. "There's a lot of activity around it out there."
The copper sculpture is the creation of Gary Gresko, who works in Oriental, a small town east of New Bern. He calls it "Return of Spring."
It was placed outside the Arts Center as part of a program to bring art to public places in Fayetteville. The Arts Council is leasing the work; it will be returned to the artist in a year.
Deborah Martin Mintz, executive director of the Arts Council, said the sculpture is part of a public arts master plan that the Arts Council established with a grant from the N.C. Arts Council.
A committee consisting of art faculty members from area colleges makes recommendations on what kind of art to place in public areas. Their recommendations go before a public art commission appointed by the City Council.
Mintz said "Return of Spring" is the first piece of public art to be placed outside Festival Park under the program. The goal is to convince local businesses to lease sculptures to be placed outside their locations.
A plaque will soon be placed on the "Return of Spring" statue asking people to submit their opinions of the work at the council's website.
Gresko said he created "Return of Spring" a couple of years ago.
"It symbolizes new growth, hope, the end of winter," Gresko said. "All the things we reach up for."
Gresko, who will be in town Monday for the unveiling of another of his works at the new Veterans Park, said he likes the sculpture's placement outside the Arts Center.
"After we put it up in Fayetteville, we hung around for about an hour," he said. "A lot of people came by and were checking it out."
In downtown Fayetteville on Friday, opinions about the sculpture were mixed.
"It looks a little bit like Peter Pan," said Richard, who didn't want to give his last name. "If I had to do a costume for Peter Pan, I would do it like that."
Kristi Allen called the sculpture "a little frightening."
"It's a little scary," she said. "Definitely out of place."
Emily Jennings had a different take.
"At first, I thought it looked like one of those (Edgar) Degas sculptures," she said. "It does get your attention. It's not offensive."
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