OKLAHOMA CITY –
Oklahoma City is honoring the legacy of the Oklahoma State Fair with the unveiling of a new large-scale public art installation at the Oklahoma State Fairgrounds.
The 72-foot sculpture, known as Bolt Tower, is designed to celebrate both the city’s history and its future. The piece was created by an experimental architecture studio based in New York and features a 3D-printed time capsule containing about 80 photographs and pieces of memorabilia connected to the fair’s long-running history.
In a ceremony on Tuesday, Oklahoma City leaders and fairgrounds officials dedicated a 72-foot art installation filled with pieces of local history.
“I was interested not in sort of mimicking that or translating it literally, but really looking at the dynamic qualities and thinking about how that could be translated into materials, into form, to produce Bolt Tower as a new icon that looks both towards the future, but also serves as a new memory maker for the community,” sculpture artist Jenny Sabin, said.
Mayor David Holt said the city remains open to welcoming more large-scale art installations, particularly projects that tell the story of Oklahoma.