[FAC] Comm - Artists make "The Buzz" in the Fresno Bee

[Cynthia Cooper]

Always nice to open the paper to read two pieces about the work of artists

Artist sculpts Moss in gold
    The beauty of model Kate Moss, 34, has been preserved in a life-size,
solid-gold statue worth $18 million
    ³I thought the next thing to do would be to make a sculpture of the
person who¹s the ideal beauty of the moment,² said British artist Marc Quinn
of using the model for the 110-pound statue, which goes on exhibit at the
British Museum in London on Oct. 4.

Artist creates Obama¹s HOPE
    Robert Indiana, the artist who brought ³LOVE² to the world‹ more
specifically, as a sculpture, to Philadelphia¹s Center City ‹ is doing the
same with ³HOPE.² Decades ago, he created the iconic ³LOVE,² its letters
stacked two to a line, the ³o² tilted on its side. Now he has created a
similar image with ³HOPE,² and the proceeds are going to Democrat Barack
Obama¹s presidential campaign.
    A stainless-steel sculpture of the image was unveiled last week outside
the Pepsi Center at the Democratic National Convention in Denver. The
campaign is selling T-shirts, pins, bumper stickers and other items adorned
with ³HOPE.²
    Indiana said he has fooled around with the word ³hope² for years, but it
wasn¹t until Obama came along ‹ with his book ³The Audacity of Hope² ‹ that
he turned it into a work of art.
    ³It¹s really a brother to ³LOVE,² or a sister or a very close family
member,² he said.

Cynthia Cooper
Executive Director
Fresno Coalition for Arts, Science & History
1401 Fulton Street, S-904, Fresno, CA 93721
559 286 8282 cell  
559 485 1100 office
ccooper at fcash.org email
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SAVE THE DATE - 2008 Cultural Arts Conference ­ Friday, October 17th
Keynote speaker - John King, Tribal Leadership Co-author and CultureSync
partner
Morning presenter ­ John McGuirk, Program Director, the James Irvine
Foundation

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