{"id":136140,"date":"2025-11-15T09:21:15","date_gmt":"2025-11-15T09:21:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/136140\/"},"modified":"2025-11-15T09:21:15","modified_gmt":"2025-11-15T09:21:15","slug":"artist-unveils-steven-spielberg-sculpture-outside-downtown-springfield-mo-theater","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/136140\/","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":136141,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[442,498,499,500,501,156,111,139,69],"class_list":["post-136140","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-arts-and-design","tag-arts","tag-arts-and-design","tag-artsanddesign","tag-artsdesign","tag-design","tag-entertainment","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/136140","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=136140"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/136140\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/136141"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=136140"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=136140"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=136140"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}