The multiple benefits that public art can provide a community are well documented. Symbolizing community value can provide remembrance and heighten awareness. Successful public art often transforms a space to a place and leads to a desire by people to meet there socially. Beyond being seen, it can be experienced and promote a higher order of thinking. Prominent displays bring art and its benefits closer to life and, if successful, promote a love of place.
Read MoreJay Sawyer is known as JBone. The Maine artist and former merchant marine is raising funds for an El Faro statue to honor the 4 Mainers and 33 crew members who died.
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