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Downtown Wilson becoming a gallery for local artists By Laura Keeter Daily Times Staff Writer For Lisa Anderson, public art is energy — especially the whirligigs beginning to deco rate downtown. Wind-driven whirligigs are folk art pieces that move in various ways. Artist Wallis Simpson of Lucama creates the unique metal windmills. Anderson said whirligigs represent the energy that it will take to ensure the revital ization of downtown and the energy that a prospering downtown will give to every body to move forward. “It’s a nice little give and take thing. We give our energy, and we get energy back,” she said. Anderson chairs the public art committee for Wilson Downtown Development Corp. She now has photo graphs of nine whirligigs that WDDC can show to anyone in terested in buying one for in stallation downtown. Purdue Pharmaceuticals has agreed to buy two whirligigs for downtown, and the Wilson County Tourism Development Authority bought another two. Another sponsor has pledged to buy one. Cost of the art pieces ranges from $1,500 to $4,000. On Kenan Street, a whirligig park will be created at the site of the Coon Annex after the building is demolished this summer. The city’s first Whirligig Festival is Nov. 4-6. “Our vision is that it will be a green space and an oasis, a place where people come to gether, a place where there will be whirligigs and benches and more public art,” Ander son said. At the Tuesday meeting of SEE ART, PAGE 2A
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Wed, Jun 15, 2005
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