Dancing Fish sculpture finds permanent home in Birmingham

Thursday, September 18, 2008 | Source: metromode
One dancing fish is about to start dancing in the streets now that Birmingham plans to give it a permanent home.

Birmingham officials are planning to return the Dancing Fish sculpture to the city, giving it a permanent home overlooking Quarton Lake. The sculpture is a large piece of metal painted white and shaped like an upright fish ...and apparently abandoned by its artist James Clover.

The city has taken it in and plans to refurbish it. Once the sculpture is ready it will be permanently installed on a small pad of concrete in the middle of a grassy field on West Maple near Baldwin Avenue. Birmingham's Public Arts Board is quarterbacking the efforts.

The board has been on a tear this year, installing public art throughout the city. Earlier this summer, the board kicked off its Cityscape public arts program by installing a dozen different pieces of public art in the city. The principal piece, "Rou A Lou" by Mark di Suvero, was installed at the southern end of downtown where Old Woodward and Woodward avenues intersect.

Source: City of Birmingham
Writer: Jon Zemke
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