People & Business: June 9
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The ribbon-cutting for the Seaweed Shelter was attended by, from left, artist David Wilson, Portland Mayor Kate Snyder, Dinah Minot of Creative Portland, artist Eric Hopkins and Greg Jordan of Greater Portland Metro.
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Community leaders and elected officials celebrated new bus shelter art by Maine
artist David Wilson at an informal ribbon-cutting June 1.
The installation titled “Seaweed Shelter” – a gothic seaweed fantasy at the Portland Transportation Center at 100 Thompson’s Point Road – was inspired by Maine’s rockweed-covered coast and the elaborate wrought-iron gate work found in Portland’s West End.
The artist was born in Kirkintilloch, Scotland, and moved to Maine in the ’70s. A painter, printmaker and designer, Wilson earned an MFA in Painting from Syracuse University in New York.
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