{"id":11471,"date":"2016-06-03T16:01:11","date_gmt":"2016-06-03T16:01:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/artacrossthecity.com\/?p=11471"},"modified":"2017-02-19T21:46:59","modified_gmt":"2017-02-19T21:46:59","slug":"ysp-art-makes-children-powerful","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/locwsinternational.com\/?p=11471","title":{"rendered":"YSP : Art Makes Children Powerful"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Visit &#8216;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.locwsinternational.com\/?portfolio=bob-roberta-smith&amp;langswitch_lang=en\">Art Makes Children Powerful<\/a>&#8216; at Yorkshire Sculpture Park<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>LOCWS International commissioned<a href=\"http:\/\/bobandrobertasmith.co.uk\/\"> <strong>Bob &amp; Roberta Smith <\/strong><\/a>to create &#8216;Art Makes Children Powerful&#8217; for <a href=\"http:\/\/artacrossthecity.com\/?s=art+across+the+city+2014\"><strong>Art Across the City 2014<\/strong><\/a> in Swansea. We are proud to share these official images of the work in place at it&#8217;s current home in the Yorkshire Sculpture Park.\u00a0<!--more--><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-11473 size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/artacrossthecity.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/Web_Bob-and-Roberta-Smith-Art-Makes-Children-Powerful-2015.-Courtesy-the-artist-and-YSP.-Photo-\u00a9-Jonty-Wilde0034.jpg\" alt=\"Web_Bob and Roberta Smith, Art Makes Children Powerful, 2015. Courtesy the artist and YSP. Photo \u00a9 Jonty Wilde0034\" width=\"670\" height=\"447\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The work is a a powerful, evocative statement in Smith\u2019s\u00a0signature sloganeering style. While in Swansea this overlooked the main Boulevard through Swansea. Immediate and\u00a0accessible, Smith\u2019s words are both poetic\u00a0and political, sending a positive message\u00a0to people of all ages about the power and\u00a0importance of education.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ysp.co.uk\/page\/about-ysp\/es\"><strong>Yorkshire Sculpture Park<\/strong><\/a> is a pioneering place that aims to challenge, and inspire the 400,000 visitors who arrive each year to explore the vast expanse of rural outdoor gallery space. Visit for free all year round!<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-11474 size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/artacrossthecity.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/Web_Bob-and-Roberta-Smith-Art-Makes-Children-Powerful-2015.-Courtesy-the-artist-and-YSP.-Photo-\u00a9-Jonty-Wilde0029.jpg\" alt=\"Web_Bob and Roberta Smith, Art Makes Children Powerful, 2015. Courtesy the artist and YSP. Photo \u00a9 Jonty Wilde0029\" width=\"670\" height=\"447\" \/> <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-11475 size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/artacrossthecity.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/Web_Bob-and-Roberta-Smith-Art-Makes-Children-Powerful-2015.-Courtesy-the-artist-and-YSP.-Photo-\u00a9-Jonty-Wilde0030.jpg\" alt=\"Web_Bob and Roberta Smith, Art Makes Children Powerful, 2015. Courtesy the artist and YSP. Photo \u00a9 Jonty Wilde0030\" width=\"670\" height=\"447\" \/> <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-11476 size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/artacrossthecity.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/Web_Bob-and-Roberta-Smith-Art-Makes-Children-Powerful-2015.-Courtesy-the-artist-and-YSP.-Photo-\u00a9-Jonty-Wilde0031.jpg\" alt=\"Web_Bob and Roberta Smith, Art Makes Children Powerful, 2015. Courtesy the artist and YSP. Photo \u00a9 Jonty Wilde0031\" width=\"670\" height=\"447\" \/> <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-11477 size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/artacrossthecity.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/Web_Bob-and-Roberta-Smith-Art-Makes-Children-Powerful-2015.-Courtesy-the-artist-and-YSP.-Photo-\u00a9-Jonty-Wilde0032.jpg\" alt=\"Web_Bob and Roberta Smith, Art Makes Children Powerful, 2015. Courtesy the artist and YSP. Photo \u00a9 Jonty Wilde0032\" width=\"670\" height=\"447\" \/><\/p>\n<p>images courtesy of Yorkshire Sculpture Park. Photo \u00a9 Jonty Wilde<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Visit &#8216;Art Makes Children Powerful&#8216; at Yorkshire Sculpture Park LOCWS International commissioned Bob &amp; Roberta Smith to create &#8216;Art Makes Children Powerful&#8217; [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":11745,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_vp_format_video_url":"","_vp_image_focal_point":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[216,7,10,13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11471","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-about-the-artworks","category-installation","category-news","category-sculpture"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/locwsinternational.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11471","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/locwsinternational.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/locwsinternational.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/locwsinternational.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/locwsinternational.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=11471"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/locwsinternational.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11471\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11744,"href":"https:\/\/locwsinternational.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11471\/revisions\/11744"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/locwsinternational.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/11745"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/locwsinternational.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11471"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/locwsinternational.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11471"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/locwsinternational.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11471"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}