First Public Art Piece Is Installed at Eastern Market Metro Plaza Park
By Larry Janezich
Posted August 14, 2022
Saturday afternoon found sculptor/artist Beth Nybeck personally installing her public art creation in the playground quadrangle of the Eastern Market Metro Park Plaza. She said that the piece, entitled “Found You,” was a long time coming and she was “excited to see them here where people can interact with them.” It’s comprised of three 5 and 7 foot stainless steel sculptures of rabbits playing hide and seek.Nybeck says this piece is all about finding one another. This whimsical portrayal of a game of hide and seek is about finding “the goodness and light that exists in each other and the willingness to seek that.” The title “Found You,” she says, refers to the experience the piece is meant to encourage: “I see you. I found you. I’m excited that I found you.”And here’s the piece in its entirety. Saturday night, the pieces were lit from within for that night only. It will take the Keystone Plus contractor who did the plaza’s renovation a couple of weeks to hardwire the lighting for the piece which will come on automatically at dusk. Photo: Steve HoltzmanThe pieces activate the park after dark as visitors are drawn to the light within the sculptures. Photo: Steve Holtzman.
Beth Nybeck is based in Kansas City. She works with metal to create installatons which promote community engagement. For more go here: https://bit.ly/3JUQSbA
Mayor Bowser cut the ribbon to officially open the $14.5 million renovation of the plaza in June of 2021 – a project sponsored and shepherded through the city bureaucracy by CM Charles Allen. There are two more pieces of public art scheduled for installation on the plaza. For more on that go here: https://bit.ly/2Mt479K
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Wonderful. We can never have enough bunny rabbits.