{"id":239541,"date":"2026-07-09T18:14:09","date_gmt":"2026-07-09T18:14:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/239541\/"},"modified":"2026-07-09T18:14:09","modified_gmt":"2026-07-09T18:14:09","slug":"artist-charles-fazzino-commemorates-philadelphias-2026-mlb-all-star-game-with-3d-artwork","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/239541\/","title":{"rendered":"Artist Charles Fazzino commemorates Philadelphia&#8217;s 2026 MLB All-Star Game with 3D artwork"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>With just days until the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/philadelphia\/news\/mlb-all-star-game-philadelphia-guide\/\" target=\"_blank\" data-invalid-url-rewritten-http=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">MLB All-Star Game arrives in Philadelphia<\/a>, 3D pop artist Charles Fazzino stopped by CBS News Philadelphia&#8217;s studio to show off pieces from his commemorative 2026 All-Star Game collection.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I&#8217;ve been working with MLB for many years,&#8221; Fazzino said. &#8220;We make these every year for different All-Star games.&#8221;\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Fazzino&#8217;s artwork jumps off the canvas \u2014 literally.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I loved pop-up books as a kid, so when I decided to become an artist, I decided I wanted to do something that was raised up in 3D,&#8221; Fazzino said.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>For this year&#8217;s edition, Fazzino depicted Citizens Bank Park and the Philly skyline. The limited-edition pieces are handmade in his New York studio and topped with Swarovski crystals and glitter.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Fazzino also hand-painted 96 commemorative baseballs as part of the collection.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Each one is different, and each one is unique,&#8221; Fazzino said.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>His artwork is set to take the field, too: Fazzino decorated an official home plate that is used for the All-Star Game&#8217;s commemorative first pitch. \u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Fazzino says the process to create these pieces takes countless hours, though in the end, it gives the art a human element.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I think people really love my artwork because nothing today is made by hand, and in my studio, everything is made by hand,&#8221; he said.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Fazzino&#8217;s full MLB All-Star Game collection is available for purchase\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.fazzino.com\/mlb-all-star-game-2026-collection\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">on his website<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\n          More from CBS News\n        <\/p>\n<p class=\"content__tags__label\">In:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"With just days until the MLB All-Star Game arrives in Philadelphia, 3D pop artist Charles Fazzino stopped by&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":239542,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[6889,12647,69,71,70],"class_list":["post-239541","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-philadelphia","tag-art","tag-mlb-all-star-game","tag-philadelphia","tag-philadelphia-headlines","tag-philadelphia-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/239541","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=239541"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/239541\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/239542"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=239541"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=239541"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=239541"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}