Junk Yard Bear - Cranbrook, BC
Posted by: Groundspeak Premium Member T0SHEA
N 49° 30.738 W 115° 45.708
11U E 589631 N 5485144
And the artist/teacher sat and thought, "What am I going to get the graduating class to do as a final project?".
Waymark Code: WMMTBE
Location: British Columbia, Canada
Date Posted: 11/02/2014
Published By:Groundspeak Premium Member Outspoken1
Views: 2

"I've got it - we'll build a bear."

So one day he gathered the class together and took them on a little field trip. But he didn't take them to Build a Bear. No. He took them to a Junk Yard. There, they scrounged the surroundings and loaded the truck with various bits and pieces of iron and steel and hauled the whole back to the school workshop then set to work.

Breaking out the torches, welders and hacksaws, they ultimately created what today proudly stands in front of Cranbrook's Mount Baker Secondary School - the Junk Yard Bear.

Our bear consists of leaf springs, coil springs, U-Joint knuckles, a couple of crankshafts and myriad pieces of steel cut and shaped as necessary to create the image of a seven to eight foot tall bear.

John McKinnon is an artist of 38 odd years experience who also teaches art, having taught at various schools and institutions since the 1980s.

And why a bear, instead of a horse or a giraffe? A bear just happens to be the school's mascot.

Price of Admission: 0.00 (listed in local currency)

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