{"id":44173,"date":"2025-07-29T03:36:07","date_gmt":"2025-07-29T03:36:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/44173\/"},"modified":"2025-07-29T03:36:07","modified_gmt":"2025-07-29T03:36:07","slug":"search-continues-for-missing-noahs-ark-tucson-sculpture-local-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/44173\/","title":{"rendered":"Search continues for missing &#8220;Noah&#8217;s Ark&#8221; Tucson sculpture | Local News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>TUCSON, Ariz. (KVOA) &#8211; The search continues for &#8220;Noah&#8217;s Ark,&#8221; a cast modernist sculpture by Tucson artist Charles Clement, which has been lost since 2018.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Tucson Historic Preservation Foundation is asking residents if they have any information that can help bring the piece of Tucson&#8217;s public artwork back into the community.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Noah&#8217;s Ark&#8221; was originally installed in the Catalina Foothills School Administration Building in 1966 before it was moved to the Reid Park Zoo in 1985.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>In 2011, the piece was moved to an outdoor storage area at the zoo where is remained until around February 2017. Officials said by 2018, &#8220;Noah&#8217;s Ark&#8221; was moved and its whereabouts have gone cold.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Anyone with information that can possibly help relocate the art piece can email <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kvoa.com\/news\/local\/search-continues-for-missing-noahs-ark-tucson-sculpture\/mailto:info@preservetucson.org\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">info@preservetucson.org<\/a> or comment on Tucson Historic Preservation Foundation&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/preservetucson\/posts\/pfbid02XYSnwcZS5yvFgfZZbACWd8KG2uEFNcJH1gaCuaiyZgKbvf35JWnfQxVC4HeYomXXl\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Facebook post<\/a>.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Tucson Parks and Recreation, Arts Foundation for Tucson and Southern Arizona and Reid Park Zoo are continuing to search for records and documentation that can help bring &#8220;Noah&#8217;s Ark&#8221; back to the community.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"TUCSON, Ariz. (KVOA) &#8211; The search continues for &#8220;Noah&#8217;s Ark,&#8221; a cast modernist sculpture by Tucson artist Charles&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":44174,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[56],"tags":[228,226,227,229,88,3729,3,452],"class_list":["post-44173","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-arts-and-design","tag-arts","tag-arts-and-design","tag-artsanddesign","tag-design","tag-entertainment","tag-local","tag-news","tag-top-stories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44173","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=44173"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44173\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/44174"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=44173"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=44173"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=44173"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}