Be Strong: The Rise of Beloved Public Art Sculptor, Nancy Schon (Pattison Darcy)(Pevná vazba)

The Woman Who Sculpted Make Way for Ducklings When American sculptor Nancy Schn visited Israel in 1979, a visit to a sculpture garden changed her life. She saw a bronze woman cuddling a cat and was amazed with how children interacted with the sculpture. Later, Nancy wrote, "Right then, I saw what I wanted for my art. I wanted my sculptures to be outdoors in parks, where people of all ages could touch and enjoy them." Her passion for public art sculptures meant finding new ways to work. She began this new phase of her career by creating a bronze sculpture of a duck family from Robert McCloskey's picture book, Make Way for Ducklings. The process was hard: she needed a larger studio and working large meant structural problems for the ducks. The process was so hard that she became discouraged. On her
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