{"id":291368,"date":"2026-02-19T08:47:06","date_gmt":"2026-02-19T08:47:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/291368\/"},"modified":"2026-02-19T08:47:06","modified_gmt":"2026-02-19T08:47:06","slug":"residents-invited-to-design-statues-for-staffordshire-art-trail","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/291368\/","title":{"rendered":"Residents invited to design statues for Staffordshire art trail"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Three winning designs will be chosen and brought to life by professional artists for the trail. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The county council said it wanted designs that reflected what Staffordshire meant to local people, from pottery heritage and green spaces to local characters<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The acting leader of the council, Martin Murray, said the trail would celebrate Staffordshire being &#8220;the beating heart of the country&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;Staffy gives us a fun and creative way for everyone to get involved.,&#8221; he added.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;You don&#8217;t need to be a professional artist; all you need is a great idea and a love for Staffordshire.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Arthur Barnard, chair of the local visitor economy partnership, previously said the trail would aim to boost tourism, support local businesses and showcase the county as &#8220;England&#8217;s playground&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Designs can be submitted to the council or at any Staffordshire library by 2 March.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Three winning designs will be chosen and brought to life by professional artists for the trail. The county&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":291369,"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-291368","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\/291368","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=291368"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/291368\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/291369"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=291368"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=291368"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=291368"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}