The Bucking Horse and Rider is a trademark of Wyoming and is featured on everything from license plates to coins, which illustrates how much everyone in the region identifies with this image and symbol. It’s part of the reason Wyoming is popularly known as the “Cowboy State,” and it’s also the reason that eight-foot tall […]
Category: Monumentous Imagination
From Guerilla Art to Icon of New York: The Wall Street Bull
The bronze sculpture of a charging bull that sits in the Financial District in Manhattan, a short distance from Wall Street itself, has managed to capture the imagination of residents of New York City and visitors from across the world. Weighing over three and a half tons and measuring 18 feet long, the Wall Street […]
How Have Murals and Street Art Influenced the Culture of Austin?
Monuments and landmarks are typically appreciated as single structures or experiences. The Washington Monument in Baltimore is a single structure that gives visitors a one-of-a-kind view of Baltimore, while the Neon Museum allows visitors to experience Las Vegas history in a totally unique way. These experiences are powerful but physically limited, and those limitations are […]
Exploring the Economic and Cultural Impact of The Fremont Troll
There are multiple approaches to enacting figurative and literal change to and for a neighborhood. Providing the people in that neighborhood with something to be proud of is an essential element in this kind of transformation, and it’s one the community of the Fremont neighborhood in Seattle, Washington focused on in their efforts to create […]