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Sustainable art displayed on Teal Lake
Posted: 01.31.2009 at 9:05 PM
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The art installation doubles as a fish habitat.

NEGAUNEE -- The frozen waters of Teal Lake is the location for a brand new art installation, at least until the ice melts.

NMU and area high school students, along with artists from Material Exchange, a Chicago-based artist collaborative, finished a design challenge for the Superior Watershed Partnership.

They were asked to create a public art piece that will also function as a fish habitat using reused materials.  The outcome was a turtle made from pieces of a retired boat.

"It's kind of poetic that it's going to return back to the water," says DeVos Art Museum Director Melissa Matuscak, "because that was what it originally was--a boat."

The piece will sit on the ice until it melts, and when that happens, it will sink to the bottom of the lake and serve as a fish habitat.

The project is in conjunction with the "Recycled Art" exhibition at NMU's DeVos Art Museum.

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