Clean Up The Lake and the Tahoe Fund with support from Tahoe Blue Vodka have commissioned artists to create a sculpture using some of the recovered items from its trash removal efforts from Lake Tahoe.
“Surfaced,” a permanent art installation, will be featured at the new Tahoe South Events Center to educate visitors trash impacts. The public is invited to vote on the endangered animal form the sculpture will take: a Sierra Nevada Red Fox, Lahontan Cutthroat Trout or Bald Eagle holding a Lahontan Cutthroat Trout. Votes may be cast online until May 20.
The sculpture will be made by internationally recognized artists Joel Dean Stockdill and Yustina Salnikova by Building 180. One of their best-known sculptures is “Ethyl,” an 82-foot life-size whale made from 5,000 pounds of hand recycled trash. The Events Center is scheduled to open in early 2023. | Vote tahoesouth.com
