Downtown will go hog wild next summer when the Big Pig Gig is revived to greet the World Choir Games in July.
The original public art extravaganza charmed the region with more than 400 Big Pigs on view in Greater Cincinnati and Northern Kentucky for almost six months beginning in May 2000.
This will be a smaller version. Tamara Harkavy, director of event co-sponsor ArtWorks, estimates there will be about 60 pigs next summer placed where World Choir Games visitors will encounter them. Harkavy said the economy was a factor in deciding on the size of the public art component of the choir games.
In 2012, ArtWorks, a community art employment program for youth, partners with C-Change Class Six, the Cincinnati USA Regional Chamber's leadership development program for young professionals. ArtWorks organized the original Big Pig Gig. The C-Change class approached ArtWorks with the idea of a reprise and will create events around the 2012 edition.
The new gig will sport the same oversized fiberglass pigs. Harkavy expressed a hope that some of them will be interactive, taking advantage of technology that's been developed in the last decade.
A call for artists will go out by the end of the week. The Haile Foundation has provided a $35,000 grant so schools can participate.
Harkavy said that any pigs that are ready by the end of April will debut on the Flying Pig Marathon route on May 6 before being re-positioned for the choir games.
"We're still working out logistics," Harkavy said.
For applications and more information visit www.artworkscincinnati.org.
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