{"id":739672,"date":"2026-07-02T21:15:06","date_gmt":"2026-07-02T21:15:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/739672\/"},"modified":"2026-07-02T21:15:06","modified_gmt":"2026-07-02T21:15:06","slug":"new-lenox-sculptors-scrapfest-entry-pays-tribute-to-roots-of-industrial-revolution","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/739672\/","title":{"rendered":"New Lenox Sculptor&#8217;s ScrapFest Entry Pays Tribute To Roots Of Industrial Revolution"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Competing in the signature sculpture category at <a href=\"https:\/\/scrapfest.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Old Town ScrapFest 16<\/a> July 10\u201311 in Lansing, Michigan, Ron Dyrcz has unveiled &#8220;Spark of the Rust,&#8221; a metal sculpture that traces the literal lifelines of the American Industrial Revolution back to the historic pocket ore docks of Marquette, Michigan. <\/p>\n<p> <img decoding=\"async\" id=\"83443-1783018221\" data-image=\"83443-1783018221\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/Ronders Welding.jpeg\" data- \/>Courtesy of Mark Adams Pictures <\/p>\n<p>While born, raised, and currently operating out of New Lenox, Dyrcz says his artistic vision has long been captured by the landscape and raw industrial heritage of Northern Michigan\u2014a region he dreams of one day calling home. &#8220;Spark of the Rust&#8221; is a physical manifestation of that obsession, using discarded steel to tell a story of transformation, labor, and foundational American industry. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Competing in the signature sculpture category at Old Town ScrapFest 16 July 10\u201311 in Lansing, Michigan, Ron Dyrcz&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":739673,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[56],"tags":[228,226,227,229,88],"class_list":["post-739672","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"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/739672","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=739672"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/739672\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/739673"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=739672"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=739672"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=739672"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}