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Public art exhibit brings a commotion, police to Trade Street
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Published: September 21, 2009
Winston-Salem, you've been Jenkins-ed.
That's Jenkins as in Mark Jenkins, the famous artist who has stopped pedestrians around the world mid-step with his life-size, life-like bubble-wrap casts of bodies positioned in sometimes strange, sometimes normal ways.
The commotion in Winston-Salem started about 1:15 p.m. today, when police and medics rushed to the corner of Eighth and Trade streets downtown. They'd gotten a report that a woman's body was draped on top of a billboard. They got there, looked up, saw the body, and started to climb.
When they got to the top, they found not a person needing rescuing, but a plastic "mannequin," placed there as part of one of Jenkins' public art exhibits.
The police were not amused. They asked the Southeastern Center for Contemporary Art, which had sponsored the exhibit, to take it down. But be warned: There will be more.
"That's only one of the four," said Ellen Wallace, marketing and communications manager for SECCA. "We're going to do our homework and better inform the police so that they will know exactly what is going up and where for the next ones."
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