Urgie the Sturgeon - a Sculpture from the River

Urgie the Sturgeon is an amazing sculpture created by Demian Jackman.

What is amazing is that almost all of the materials have come from the Mississippi River.

The trash in this sculpture of Urgie the Sturgeon came from the 2009 Mississippi River Clean up.

Since 1989 volunteers have removed 5.3 million pounds of material from 9,300 miles of shoreline.

This sculpture was commissioned by the Minnesota DNR (Department of Natural Resources) as a tribute to the 78,000 volunteers that have taken part in cleaning up the Mississippi River since 1989.

An amazing piece of art - hard to capture the entire piece in one photo. This was located at the DNR Building at the Minnesota State Fair

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Angela <:3---}~~~~ M. Sep 30, 2009, 11:33am EDT

that is neat

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Kay M. Sep 30, 2009, 11:39am EDT

That's really huge

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Nana to Seven Cutiepies Sep 30, 2009, 11:55am EDT

It's sad to see how much garbage is dumped in our natural resources, I wonder if anyone gets the message afte seeing this.

Priscilla (wishing I was in Costa Rica) ~. Sep 30, 2009, 12:50pm EDT

I sure hope so Nana~

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Vivian P. Sep 30, 2009, 11:56am EDT

wow that is quite a sculpture
a wonderful tribute to those who care

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Steph-in-NE ..... Sep 30, 2009, 11:57am EDT

that is cool I wish Ne would do something of this, we have the colunteer yet nothing to prove it

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Pam S. Sep 30, 2009, 11:59am EDT

Wow, that is so awesome.

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Dagmara H. Sep 30, 2009, 12:34pm EDT

wow, how cool

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Nancy S. Sep 30, 2009, 12:35pm EDT

That car must have been there for decades. Every city and state should do this.

Priscilla (wishing I was in Costa Rica) ~. Sep 30, 2009, 12:39pm EDT

The front of the fish sculpture is an International Semi front-end, I bet it was there for a long time!

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carolyn b. Sep 30, 2009, 2:10pm EDT

Interesting....

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Marianne R. Sep 30, 2009, 3:04pm EDT

Very cool

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Kat W. Sep 30, 2009, 4:47pm EDT

Very interesting that it is made from litter or "reclaimed" trash.

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Crystal R. Sep 30, 2009, 6:03pm EDT

That's very neat.

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Janet "Jax" B. Sep 30, 2009, 7:23pm EDT

Wow, that is very different....

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JoAnn C. Sep 30, 2009, 7:26pm EDT

very cool

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elizabeth e. Oct 2, 2009, 8:00am EDT

Love sculptures like this. Yesterday I saw one made from old tools in Pinjarra.

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Julia Schrenkler Oct 2, 2009, 10:10am EDT

"Since 1989 volunteers have removed 5.3 million pounds of material from 9,300 miles of shoreline."

I'm amazed twice. Once because that's a massive amount of clean up, and again that someone dumped it there in the first place.

Thanks for sharing the photos, Priscilla, hope you don't mind if I feature this on my Objects in Mirror blog.

Priscilla (wishing I was in Costa Rica) ~. Oct 2, 2009, 10:20am EDT

Thanks for the deature Julia!

It's amazing the crap that has been found in the Mississippi River~

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