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In the spring of 2002, the Chamber of
Commerce in Elk Grove, CA, bought 50
life-size fiberglass elk statues, to put
up all over town. I saw one truckload of
10 or 12 unpainted fiberglass elks enter
town sometime in June, 2002. A few weeks
later, I saw two dozen or more of them
in front of a warehouse near Highway 99,
awaiting painting and display.
Gradually, local stores began sponsoring
individual elk statues, and
commissioning local artists to paint
them creatively. Each elk was given its
own unique name, a cement platform to
mount the elk statue, and a plaque with
the statue's name, the corporate
sponsor's name, and the artist's name.
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front of Border's Books at 7415 Laguna
Boulevard, is the first elk I found. It
is also the first elk you'll find as you
travel down Laguna Boulevard, from
Laguna's starting point at Interstate 5.
You will find it in the Target shopping
center, which is on your left, just past
Bruceville Road. Commissioned by Donahue
Scribner Realty Group and created by
artist Helen Plenert-Horiuchi, ELKamino
is decorated like a Chevrolet El Camino,
complete with chrome trim and lights,
and even a rear license plate! Note the
fuzzy dice and hula dancer in his
antlers.
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Umbrellas
I had great fun with
these. When I heard the Fine Arts Center
of Sacramento was doing a benefit
auction for the refurbishing of the
local public swimming pool I was
interested in helping. This is the same
pool that I had used when I was a child.
Now neighbors were getting together to
help renovate it for another generation.
I just needed to come up with a idea for
the umbrella that fit my style of
painting.
I look forward to doing more. |
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School
bus - commission 2000 - San Juan
School District Transportation
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