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Airport Window Highlights Upcoming Exhibition at the Center
Airline passengers and other visitors at Fort Lauderdale-Hollywood International Airport will be greeted by a unique LEGO sculpture created by the internationally-renowned artist Nathan Sawaya using recycled LEGO bricks. This impressive figure, which shows a life-size human figure, will be on display in Terminal 3 Departure Level at Fort Lauderdale-Hollywood International Airport through the end of the year. This piece serves as a preview of Sawaya’s upcoming “return engagement” exhibition at the Art and Culture Center of Hollywood in summer 2010. For the first time ever, Sawaya will create works to be exhibited that are made primarily from recycled LEGO bricks in a new touring exhibit titled, Replay. The Center, which is located at 1650 Harrison St., is a nationwide drop for gently used LEGO for this effort.
“We are thrilled to bring Nathan back for the debut of this new collection,” said Joy Satterlee, executive director of the Center. “We are putting out a call to all those parents and grandparents who might have LEGO in your attic or spare bedroom closet, to send us your loved, played with and worn out bricks so that Nathan can transform them into new art to be admired by millions.”
Sawaya is returning to the Art and Culture Center of Hollywood after his hugely successful Art of the Brick exhibition held there in the summer of 2008 shattered all previous attendance records at the 30-year-old art institution. The hands-on activity area, which gave many adults and children the opportunity to build their own LEGO creations, will also make a return appearance at the Center in the summer of 2010.
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Funding Acknowledgements
The Art and Culture Center of Hollywood is a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization supported in part by its members, admissions, private entities, the City of Hollywood, the Broward County Board of County Commissioners as recommended by the Broward Cultural Council; the State of Florida, Department of State, Division of Cultural Affairs, the Florida Council on Arts and Culture; and the Kresge Foundation. We welcome donations from all members of the community who wish to support our work.