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Published features, magazine spreads, and editorial coverage of Erika Strecker's sculpture, public art, and metalsmithing practice.

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Kentucky Homes & Gardens · March/April 2023

MAKING MAGIC WITH METAL

By Ray Hunter

A six-page profile on Strecker's twenty-year practice as a sculptor and metalsmith — covering "Nexus" at the Kentucky Transportation Cabinet Building and the collaborative "Exuberance!" kite installation at the University of Kentucky Children's Hospital.

"Iron, the basis of steel, is an ancient, common material. It showers down from the stratosphere in the form of meteors and comprises much of our earth's core."

Making Magic with Metal — Kentucky Homes & Gardens feature on Erika Strecker (pages 30–31) — Spread / pp. 30–31 — Artist profile + Nexus

Exuberance! kite installation feature spread — pp. 32–33 — Exuberance!

Exuberance! process photography — Process — fabrication & install

Exuberance! installed in the UK Children's Hospital atrium — Installation — UK Children's Hospital atrium

Historic Lawrence Brewer & Son grain elevator

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SmileyPete · December 29, 2015

LEXINGTON ARTIST REFASHIONING HISTORIC GRAIN ELEVATOR AS BUSINESS INCUBATOR

Coverage of Strecker's adaptive-reuse project at the former Lawrence Brewer & Son grain elevator — converting an industrial landmark into studio and small-business space for Lexington's creative community.

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