Clear teamed up with welding students from Northlands Job Corps in Vergennes to make the piece, which depicts massive stalks of milkweed and rudbeckia and a spray of northern asters. Clear began meeting with the students in December to fabricate the sculpture at Job Corps’ state-of-the-art welding training shop. The work was made possible through a grant obtained by the Vergennes Partnership from the Vermont Arts Council and the National Endowment of the Arts.
Seven Days senior multimedia producer Eva Sollberger has known Clear for many years and made videos about her in 2007 and 2008. They met up again at Job Corps to watch the piece come to life and, a week and a half later, to see its installation.
The work’s dedication to the citizens of Vergennes will take place at the Tri-Valley Transit bus stop in the heart of downtown on Thursday, June 27, at 4:00 p.m. The transformation of the bus stop into the “Flower Stop” will bring nature and color to the neighborhood.
Filming dates: 6/5/24 & 6/17/24
Music:
- Cheel, “Sunset Dream”
- Carmen María and Edu Espinal, “Summer in Colombia”
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