Majestic blue heron sculpture made of plane parts lands at Norfolk International Airport
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NORFOLK, Va. - A new public art sculpture has landed in Norfolk!
Presented by Norfolk Arts, Navigator is a monumental blue heron made from decommissioned plane parts and structural elements of steel and aluminum with hand blown glass eyes. It is fittingly on display at the Norfolk International Airport.
The 24-ft. tall heron, which has a 44-ft. wingspan, was created by Don Kennell and Lisa Adler of DKLA Design of Santa Fe, New Mexico. The sculpture celebrates the miracle of flight and Norfolk, a place blue herons call home.
New Navigator sculpture scheduled to land at Norfolk International Airport
Norfolk Arts are presenting a giant heron sculpture made from used plane parts and other metal materials, that is set to arrive on Thursday.
Credit: wvec Author: Kelsee Majette (WVEC) Updated: 2:44 PM EDT June 1, 2021
NORFOLK, Va. A new monumental work of art is en route to the Norfolk International Airport area and is scheduled to arrive as early as Thursday.
Norfolk Arts announced it will be presenting a 24-feet tall heron sculpture, Navigator to celebrate the miracle of flight and Norfolk. It will be hauled on two semi-trucks and taken to the southwest corner of Azalea Garden Road and Norview Avenue.
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By Mechan 11: The Collector was installed in North Camden s Cramer Hill Neighborhood. The heart for the 15-foot-tall robot was designed by a Camden high school student and then fabricated by Tyler Fuqua Creations. (Emma Lee/WHYY)
The City of Camden spends more than $4 million a year cleaning up after illegal dumpers.
Some are so bold, they’ve carved out specific dumping grounds. There’s a place where mountains of old Christmas trees pile up. Other places have tons of kitchen and bathroom appliances or accumulate debris from housing construction and other garbage sources.
Camdenites have been fed up for a while. They see it as a combination of greed from the haulers that send their trash there and a form of urban insult.
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A series of environmentally-conscious public art displays officially open Thursday on Camden, timed to coincide with Earth Day 2021.
Instillations include a giant black cat made of recycled car hoods, a turntable created with plastic bottles and face masks and a 17-foot-tall robot with a heart that beats for his planet.
Those and more are available to peruse throughout various Camden neighborhoods starting today after a year-long delay due to COVID-19.
The artwork, which is made from recycled materials, looks to spotlight the issue of illegal dumping. It’s a problem that costs taxpayers in the Camden County municipality more than $4 million a year, according to the city.
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CAMDEN Commuters look out the windows as the PATCO Hi-Speedline trains rumble past a dead-end lot on Pershing Street in Camden s Whitman Park neighborhood. Usually, there s not much to see: Lines of rowhouses. One or two abandoned, boarded-up properties. A few cars. Some trash, dumped illegally. A giant black panther.
Wait.
It was. It is. Invincible Cat, by husband-and-wife artists Don Kennell and Lisa Adler, is 15,000 pounds of what used to be car hoods (56 of them, to be exact). And it s keeping watch on this vacant lot tucked inside a neighborhood along the Hi-Speedline not only to entertain riders, but also to call attention to a serious problem plaguing the City of Camden: illegal dumping and pollution.