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Nation's Largest Volunteer Art Festival

Source:America's Library
Level: Pre-Intermediate

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Nation's Largest Volunteer Art Festival

How can a piece of art create a monster? Easy, it can inspire an entire city to hold a huge arts festival. It happened in Grand Rapids, Michigan, when a gigantic piece of sculpture was installed on a downtown plaza.

In 1969, a type of stationary abstract sculpture, called a stabile (pronounced stay-beal), was installed downtown in front of City Hall. Twentieth century American artist Alexander Calder created it.

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