Public Art

An overwhelming majority of Normalites say they're all in for public art. Results of a survey distributed in May indicated 85% of people who live, work or play in Normal support public dollars going toward public art.

We caught up with Kasey Wells, a Lexington scrap metal artist who campaigned for president in 2020 toting a large scrap metal elephant sculpture around the U.S.

Youth art camps are already filling up at Illinois Art Station. As the art center rounds the bend on one full year since moving into their new home on Vernon Avenue, new leadership by a familiar face in the Twin Cities arts scene is returning the non-profit to its community roots and reigniting the Youth Mural Project for the first time since 2019.

Tom Kirk doesn’t view his day job as co-owner of Henson Disposal as related to his visual art, apart from the inside look he gets at how much people throw away. Kirk has spent the past several years building large-scale art pieces from discarded metal, gears and machinery, and he recently expanded to a spot in downtown Bloomington where a concrete lady now sits beneath the Main Street bridge.