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ART ON THE RIVER
ART ON THE RIVER. In 2018 in its thirteenth year, Art on the River at the Port of Dubuque featured the usual sculpture by artists from across the nation. That year, however, the annual show offered several new ideas. The MARSHALLESE community performed a traditional dance and presented a hand-crafted scale model of a Marshallese canoe. The 2018 exhibit also had another "first"--a theme for the show. This year's theme was: driftless referring to the driftless region of the Midwest of which Dubuque is a part that was untouched by ice age glaciers allowing rolling hills to exist. The final "first" was the introduction of a kinetic--motion-based--sculpture, "Mobi," and a light-based sculpture,"Universe."
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Source:
Frenzel, Anthony, "Many 1sts in the 13th Year of Riverside Art," Telegraph Herald, August 4, 2018, p. 5A