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Charleston sculptor turns bridge into art
Jim Shultz a Charleston body mechanic turned sculptor wins a $10 000 commission to build a 15 foot palmetto tree from John P Grace Memorial Bridge debris for North Charleston Mount Pleasant and Charleston plan similar art projects Shultz works at night on the former Charleston Navy base aiming to finish The Gracie by summer The sculpture may sit on a grassy median along I 526 and benches from old crossbeams will surround it The city seeks ideas from the public to memorialize the Grace bridge and a future public art display is planned near the Grace footprint
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Charleston
Jim Shultz
Cooper River
John P. Grace Memorial
Shultz
North Charleston
Mount Pleasant
Marty Besancon
Iater
National Boulevard
Besancon
Michael Mayer
Civic Design Center
Grace
Silas N. Pearman
East Bay Street
Arthur Ravenel Jr