Cedar Rapids rolls out garbage trucks featuring Iowa artists - KCRG
Cedar Rapids rolls out garbage trucks featuring Iowa artists
CEDAR RAPIDS, Iowa (KCRG) - Decorated garbage trucks are hitting the streets in Cedar Rapids for the first time.
Artwork from five native Iowans now wraps three recycling trucks and two garbage trucks.
Artists from around the world submitted designs to be used. 37 submissions were received.
City officials say this is a way to bring art to more people than a stationary art piece would.
”We just were talking about public art and how can we get more public art out into the community, and I had mentioned we had giant driving billboards basically. We have these giant trucks that maybe we can put together some kind of program for some public art on our trucks,” said Patricia Hall, Solid Waste & Recycling Manager.
The project’s theme is to help promote sustainability through art.
Four of the artists are local to Eastern Iowa, one is from the Des Moines area.
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