Thursday, January 15, 2009

The Giant Whooping Crane



The school in which my daughter teaches and my Granddaughter Jesse goes to school, were part of a Living work of Art yesterday. Dan Dancer, a conceptual artist with 'Art for the Sky', assembled nearly 900 elementary school students and staff to create this picture of a 'Whooping Crane' The art took up an entire soccer field. If you look really close you can see Jesse she is in the wing and my daughter is in the black outline of the crane (j.k.) When I asked my daughter how organized it was with 900 kids, she replied "it was organized chaos". I know that this is something the two of them will remember being a part of forever.

6 comments:

2nd Cup of Coffee said...

I'd never heard of this before! Amazing. Glad someone liked the turtle picture today.

Indian Lake Papa said...

cool - we see a lot of sand-hill cranes.

Unknown said...

Wow! This is so cool and creative : ). I could TOTALLY see your daughter : ). She is the best part of the wing!

Greg C said...

That is awesome. And yes she will remember it forever. When I was in High School we did something similar. We all got in a field and spelled out Rice Checks. It didn't look like anything from where we stood but at the righ angle it looked great. They were going to put the picture on the box of Rice Checks but it never happened. I still remember it so many years later.

Jules from "The Roost" said...

OMGosh that is amazing! What a fun thing to be apart of!

CJ, The Purple Diva said...

THAT IS AWESOME! I LOVE IT!