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Filtrine Drinking Water Fountains as a Piece of Art | Filtrine

Filtrine Drinking Water Fountains as a Piece of Art | Filtrine

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Filtrine Drinking Water Fountains as a Piece of Art | Filtrine Location Kennebunk, ME and Cumberland, ME Challenge In the early 1980’s, Maine’s legislature voted to devote 1% of funds designated for public building construction to commissioning art installations. The goal was to make “public spaces more appealing, useful or accessible through the incorporation of artworks. ” Roger Majorowicz, an internationally renowned sculptor and a Maine resident submitted a proposal that included a Filtrine dual drinking fountain to a ‘Percent for Art’ committee in the early 2000s. Majorowicz, an internationally known sculptor and a Maine resident, won the grant for his Millpond II sculpture for the Middle School of the Kennebunks. Based on that proposal, he subsequently won the commission for a simil

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