{"id":422453,"date":"2026-09-01T03:22:09","date_gmt":"2026-09-01T03:22:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/422453\/"},"modified":"2026-09-01T03:22:09","modified_gmt":"2026-09-01T03:22:09","slug":"canstruction-dallas-returns-to-northpark-center-to-fight-hunger-nbc-5-dallas-fort-worth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/422453\/","title":{"rendered":"Canstruction Dallas returns to NorthPark Center to fight hunger \u2013 NBC 5 Dallas-Fort Worth"},"content":{"rendered":"

For the third year in a row, Texas ranks No. 1 in the country for the number of people experiencing hunger. During Hunger Action Month<\/a>, an unusual art exhibit at NorthPark Center in Dallas is drawing attention to the issue \u2014 with more than 120,000 cans of food.<\/p>\n

Canstruction Dallas<\/a> has transformed the cans into elaborate sculptures that will eventually help feed North Texans.<\/p>\n

“There’s over 120,000 cans that you see in these structures here,” said Rachel Gruber with Canstruction Dallas.<\/p>\n

This year’s theme, “League of Uncanny Villains,” turns familiar villains into larger-than-life canned-food creations, giving the exhibit a playful way to address a serious problem.<\/p>\n

“I love our theme this year; it is the League of Uncanny Villains. Hunger really is the villain, and we are trying to give these iconic pop sculptures a heroic purpose,” said Gruber.<\/p>\n

Some of the sculptures are immediately recognizable. Others become clearer when viewed through a camera.<\/p>\n

“And then we can see in full exactly what it is, and it’s crazy because it really comes to life in the picture,” said Elise Riter.<\/p>\n

The canned-food building blocks are designed to make shoppers stop, look and think about people experiencing hunger.<\/p>\n

Nearly 1.4 million people in North Texas are experiencing hunger, including one out of every four children.<\/p>\n

“The populations of Plano and Denton combined is the number of children who are food insecure just here in North Texas,” said Gruber.<\/p>\n

Visitors can vote for their favorite Canstruction creation with a $5 donation. The money raised and all of the cans used in the sculptures will go to the North Texas Food Bank<\/a>.<\/p>\n

“It’s so important because every dollar that is given to them is 3 meals. Our votes are 5 dollars, therefor every vote that you put in is 15 meals going directly onto somebody’s table, directly into our community,” said Gruber.<\/p>\n

Voting runs through Sept. 13, when the Canstruction exhibit at NorthPark Center also ends.<\/p>\n

This story was originally reported for broadcast by NBC DFW. AI tools helped convert the story into a digital article, and an NBC DFW journalist edited it again before publication.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"For the third year in a row, Texas ranks No. 1 in the country for the number of…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":422454,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[102,104,103,20223],"class_list":["post-422453","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-dallas","tag-dallas","tag-dallas-headlines","tag-dallas-news","tag-north-texas-food-bank"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/422453","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=422453"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/422453\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/422454"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=422453"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=422453"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=422453"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}