{"id":139866,"date":"2025-11-14T18:27:24","date_gmt":"2025-11-14T18:27:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/139866\/"},"modified":"2025-11-14T18:27:24","modified_gmt":"2025-11-14T18:27:24","slug":"artist-unveils-steven-spielberg-sculpture-outside-downtown-springfield-mo-theater","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/139866\/","title":{"rendered":"Artist unveils Steven Spielberg sculpture outside downtown Springfield, Mo., theater"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"text | text-start article-text\">SPRINGFIELD, Mo. (KY3) &#8211; Artist and sculptor Susan Sommers unveiled her latest creation outside College Station Theaters downtown: a sculpture of legendary filmmaker Steven Spielberg.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Sommers said she owes Spielberg a lot for her success and hopes others will connect with her latest piece. The sculpture honors the pioneer of the modern blockbuster.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">\u201cSteven Spielberg inspired me,\u201d said Sommers. \u201cI couldn\u2019t believe that somebody could make you feel that way. I just tried to put that into my art, to make things really have a wow factor. It\u2019s just a great way to get people to feel it.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Sommers is responsible for the larger-than-life murals at many Bass Pro Shops locations across the country.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | text-start article-text\">To report a correction or typo, please email <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ky3.com\/2025\/11\/14\/artist-unveils-steven-spielberg-sculpture-outside-downtown-springfield-mo-theater\/mailto:digitalnews@ky3.com\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">digitalnews@ky3.com<\/a>. Please include the article info in the subject line of the email.<\/p>\n<p class=\"copyright |\">Copyright 2025 KY3. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"SPRINGFIELD, Mo. (KY3) &#8211; Artist and sculptor Susan Sommers unveiled her latest creation outside College Station Theaters downtown:&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":139867,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[307,304,305,306,308,93,61,60],"class_list":{"0":"post-139866","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-arts-and-design","8":"tag-arts","9":"tag-arts-and-design","10":"tag-artsanddesign","11":"tag-artsdesign","12":"tag-design","13":"tag-entertainment","14":"tag-ie","15":"tag-ireland"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/139866","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=139866"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/139866\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/139867"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=139866"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=139866"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=139866"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}