Published October 13. 2026 10:12AM<\/p>\n
A new sculpture was unveiled Oct. 6 at the Bethlehem Visitors Center on the SteelStacks campus, the fifth in the annual sculpture series in the SteelStacks exhibition by ArtsQuest, and in partnership with the National Museum of Industrial History\u2019s \u2018Steel Weekend.\u2019<\/p>\n
Titled \u2018Rove\u2019, the piece was created by Pittsburgh native Jeffrey Repko.<\/p>\n
Lisa Harms, vice-president of visual arts and education at ArtsQuest, explained a new sculpture is exhibited each year. Harms says there were fourteen submissions in the current round, some from new artists and others from long time artists, and some who were local. \u201cThey used multiple different materials,\u201d says Harms. The choice was made by a selection committee.<\/p>\n
Repko, a sculpture professor at the University of North Georgia, says he worked \u201c24 hours a day for ten days\u201d using industry as his inspiration. \u201cI was thinking of labor and the human body,\u201d he says about his \u201chumanoid\u201d appearing sculpture.<\/p>\n
Using HDEP plastic in primary colors, the color yellow is minimized and the color blue is maximized according to Repko. The sculpture is supported by a stainless steel armature. He used a wooden model as his guide.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt\u2019s kind of like my own Legos,\u201d says Repko of his creation.<\/p>\n
Press photos by Dana GrubbSignage recognizes artist Jeffrey Repko.<\/p>\n
Repko used the primary colors in his sculpture entitled \u2018Rove\u2019.<\/p>\n
Artist Jeffrey Repko in front of his sculpture which he says has a \u201chumanoid animated personality.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Published October 13. 2026 10:12AM A new sculpture was unveiled Oct. 6 at the Bethlehem Visitors Center on…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":305779,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[153,155,154],"class_list":["post-305778","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-bethlehem","tag-bethlehem","tag-bethlehem-headlines","tag-bethlehem-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/305778","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=305778"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/305778\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/305779"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=305778"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=305778"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=305778"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}