Canadiana Begging Bear - Guelph, Ontario, Canada
N 43° 31.971 W 080° 13.998
17T E 561949 N 4820275
A statue of a Bear located in the Donald Forster Sculpture Park in Guelph, Ontario.
Waymark Code: WM7TCH
Location: Ontario, Canada
Date Posted: 11/30/2009
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people are having fun with the begging bear that stands next to the bus stop in front of the Art Centre. People are actually come out and dress him in the middle of the night. You will never know what he is wearing the next day. In my picture he is dressed in green for St. Patricks Day.
This statue was purchased with the funds donated by the Walter and Duncan Gordon Foundation and with the financial support of the Canada Council for the Arts Acquisition Program in 1999.
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Carl Skelton
Carl Skelton, born in Toronto in 1961, now lives and works in New York City. In his spare time, he's the founding director of the Integrated Digital Media Institute at Polytechnic University, Brooklyn. The Institute's current initiatives, besides its academic programs, include partnerships with people and organizations as diverse as Philip Glass, Nokia, and the Ontario College of Art and Design. Watch out for Hyperpolis 3: Really Useful Media, a hybrid conference/festival to be held October 19 and 20 on the campus of the Polytechnic in Brooklyn. Carl's exhibition record is international, but includes a variety of temporary and permanent public installation projects in Ontario, including the very discreet "Living Stones" on Wellington Street West, and the rather more conspicuous "Begging Bear" in front of the MacDonald Stewart Art Centre in Guelph. "Still Life" will be Carl's largest piece to date, and the one with the prettiest colours.
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