{"id":62431,"date":"2022-04-12T17:37:34","date_gmt":"2022-04-12T22:37:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=62431"},"modified":"2022-04-12T17:37:34","modified_gmt":"2022-04-12T22:37:34","slug":"the-bee-project","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=62431","title":{"rendered":"The Bee Project"},"content":{"rendered":"
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\u201cThe Bee Project\u201d installation in Historical Bohemian District in Cedar Rapids Iowa April-November 2021\u00a0<\/i>Photograph by Brendan Pole<\/i><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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If you drive through the historical Bohemian Village in Cedar Rapids, you can see large bright yellow hexagonal structures covered with hundreds of bees made from recycled materials.<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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\u00a0One might see children playing around the installation, like the boy in this photograph, admiring the bee made from a Rubik\u2019s cube \u2013 he thinks it\u2019s such an inventive idea! He, his younger sister, and their cousin made their bees from plastic bottles and tape and added them to the installation a few weeks earlier. Now they are often checking on their own and other people\u2019s creations: there is an enormous bee made from two biking helmets, there is a tiny one from the nail polish bottle, there is a bee crocheted from yellow and black yarn, there is one made from old plastic toy and used kitchen mixing bowl! Furthermore, it\u2019s a great place to hang out with friends! \u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0<\/i><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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\u00a0Photograph by Brendan Pole<\/i><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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And there is more to come. Starting this April, two more public works by Russian American multimedia artist Elena Smyrniotis will be installed in Iowa. Growing up, Elena spent summers in her grandmother\u2019s village, well known for beekeeping, where she roamed the open fields bursting with wildflowers and bees. These early memories reoccurred in\u00a0The Bee Project<\/i>, developed during her Grant Wood Artist Fellowship at the University of Iowa.\u00a0The Bee Project\u00a0<\/i>is a community engaging art installation designed by the artist in collaboration with the University of Iowa Office of Sustainability and the Environment, the Office of Community Engagement, Grant Wood Art Colony, Indian Creek Nature Center, and Czech Village\/New Bohemian District in Cedar Rapids, Iowa…<\/p>\n

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The Bee Project \u201cThe Bee Project\u201d installation in Historical Bohemian District in Cedar Rapids Iowa April-November 2021\u00a0Photograph by Brendan Pole If you drive through the historical Bohemian Village in Cedar Rapids, you can see large bright yellow hexagonal structures covered with hundreds of bees made from recycled materials. \u00a0One might see children playing around the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[66,32832,32831,13768,31646,8486],"class_list":["post-62431","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-environment","tag-bees","tag-cedar-rapids","tag-elena-smyrniotis","tag-iowa","tag-millennium-alliance-for-humanity-and-biosphere","tag-pollinators"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62431","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=62431"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62431\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":62432,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62431\/revisions\/62432"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=62431"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=62431"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=62431"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}