{"id":776936,"date":"2026-07-22T01:37:09","date_gmt":"2026-07-22T01:37:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/776936\/"},"modified":"2026-07-22T01:37:09","modified_gmt":"2026-07-22T01:37:09","slug":"scovill-sculpture-park-in-decatur-il-installs-5-new-pieces-local-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/776936\/","title":{"rendered":"Scovill Sculpture Park in Decatur IL installs 5 new pieces | Local News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>DECATUR, Ill. (WAND) &#8211; Decatur is getting new artwork to admire, as the Scovill Sculpture Park has added five new sculptures.<\/p>\n<p>The new additions marked the fourth installation at the park and are a joint partnership between local organizations, including the Children&#8217;s Museum of Illinois and the Decatur Area Arts Council.<\/p>\n<p>Decatur Park District Foundation Director Aly Delatte said the art is a great way to get people talking.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It starts a dialogue. It lets people ask questions no matter how old they are; you can use your imagination, think through what the artist was wondering,&#8221; Delatte said.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Five more pieces will be installed in 2027.<\/p>\n<p data-pm-slice=\"1 1 []\">Copyright 2026. WAND TV. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n<p>                                <a href=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/preferences\/source?q=wandtv.com\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><br \/>\n            <img  data- class=\" img-responsive lazyload tnt-prop-img\" width=\"981\" height=\"175\" alt=\"\" aria-hidden=\"true\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"DECATUR, Ill. (WAND) &#8211; Decatur is getting new artwork to admire, as the Scovill Sculpture Park has added&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":776937,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[56],"tags":[228,226,227,1075,331200,229,88,5629,983,331199,331198,120173,120175,120174],"class_list":["post-776936","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-arts-and-design","tag-arts","tag-arts-and-design","tag-artsanddesign","tag-community","tag-decatur-park-district","tag-design","tag-entertainment","tag-illinois","tag-local-news","tag-new-installation","tag-scovill-sculpture-park","tag-wand","tag-wand-news","tag-wandtv"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/776936","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=776936"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/776936\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/776937"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=776936"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=776936"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=776936"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}