Monthly Archives: July 2011

If you haven't gotten your fill of rogue art already this month, then head on out to Wallingford Art Walk this Wednesday, from 6 - 9 pm. Here's the haps, courtesy of Tara and the Art Walk crew: Fuel Coffee - Jim Stoccardo (www.jimstoccardo.com) Harold’s Lighting - Photographer Phil Ljunghammar Seattle Mosaic Arts will feature photographs of community mosaic projects facilitated by mosaic artist Laurel True. Laurel has travelled around the world working in underserved communities in Africa, Haiti and the…

In case you weren't following the extensive comment stream on the Seal Team 6 Hits Meridian Park story, in which Wallingford artist and metalworker Marc Bissell took it upon himself to 'repair' the sailor sculpture in Meridian Park playground (it had lost its sword arm a few years ago) by welding on a machine gun, the episode is over. Several locals took it up on themselves to 'repair' his 'repair' and hacksawed off the addition. Forrest witnessed the removal and sent…

We first caught wind of the altered sculpture on Twitter, in a tweet from Jeanne: "Look what some guy welded onto a sculpture at Meridian Park. And no, it wasn't the original artist." Yep, someone added to the sculptures that ring the playground at Meridian Park. (For some beautiful shots of the other sculptures, see Jeff Ng's photostream on Flickr.) This morning, we heard from the artist himself, who forwarded his note to the original artist: Hi Pat, Hope you are…