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Colossal Head III (Amber Waves of Grain)

Grand Forks, North Dakota, United States
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Colossal Head III (Amber Waves of Grain) is a six-foot-tall painted concrete head planter that Visit Greater Grand Forks lists at its Visitors' Center, 4251 Gateway Drive. The organisation lists its installation as 2015 and its current paint scheme as the work of three painters.
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Colossal Head III (Amber Waves of Grain)
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Site-level location · 47.9330° N, 97.0893° W
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Visit Greater Grand Forks lists a six-foot-tall head, painted with wheat and a sunset, at its Visitors' Center on Gateway Drive. It describes the work as a planter of recycled metal and concrete, lists its installation as 2015, and credits the City of Grand Forks with commissioning the statue.
It was first a "blue head", repainted by local artist Billy Rerick. When it needed a refresh, the centre's marketing coordinator, Alicia Van Eps, painted it with her mother and aunt. They named the result Amber Waves-of-Grain, taking the wheat and sunset colours from "America the Beautiful" and adding red tractor earrings.
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A six-foot painted concrete head planter listed at the Visitors' Center, 4251 Gateway Drive, Grand Forks. A Visit Greater Grand Forks blog post invited visitors to stop by and photograph the public art, and to tag photos #AmberWavesOfGrainGF.
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At the Visit Greater Grand Forks Visitors' Center, 4251 Gateway Drive, Grand Forks, North Dakota 58203, which the operator lists as the head's location.
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