WPSU Shorts
Geese Flock Together
Special | 1m 55sVideo has Closed Captions
Around Lewistown, a public art project features 5-foot tall geese.
Around Lewistown, a happy Juniata Valley tradition includes a public art project featuring 5-foot tall geese! Not only do artists from around Mifflin County adorn the fiberglass sculptures with paintings referencing the local culture—from landscapes to marching band uniforms—but the art project brings in foot traffic from around the area, giving local businesses a nice community-centered boost!
WPSU Shorts
Geese Flock Together
Special | 1m 55sVideo has Closed Captions
Around Lewistown, a happy Juniata Valley tradition includes a public art project featuring 5-foot tall geese! Not only do artists from around Mifflin County adorn the fiberglass sculptures with paintings referencing the local culture—from landscapes to marching band uniforms—but the art project brings in foot traffic from around the area, giving local businesses a nice community-centered boost!
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[Music] we're standing here looking at navigator and he's one of the first in the flock of the community part ships wild geese flock together public art project and he's a five foot high fiberglass goose and he's gonna have company in the flock around town and around the Juniata Valley as the project gets going each goose has its own artist concept that they brought to the project so they all imagined it in a different way and brought their unique skills and experiences into the project so their vision is realized on the finished product there are currently four geese in the flock and we're gonna be added to that number throughout the year and into 2020 ahead of guste 2020 so we have at least a dozen more signups and every day we get good news on other groups and organizations individuals want to get involved the project covers the entire Juniata Valley so although a couple of the initial geese are visible here in the county seat of Lewistown and Mifflin County the tradition doesn't recognize boundary lines and it's celebrated far and wide the Juniata Valley so we wanted to recognize that with the project and we're not putting strict limits on how far that can expand and we've had interest from all over the really great thing about public art and our opinion is - anyone can enjoy it so not only have the artists done an amazing job and it's a fun thing to see kids have loved it but it's also something that anyone can really enjoy and they're also some benefits that have been shown of having projects like this in your community so people will come in and maybe they'll go grab a cup of coffee or eat locally while they come to see it and we have seen already some people coming out to to view them so we're excited about that and we've had a lot of great feedback and it's a way to celebrate the area celebrate our community you [Music]
