Thanks: Main Streets 'Big Dog Show' a great success
The Salem News September 17, 2009
To the editor:
We at Beverly Main Streets were thrilled to bring "The Big Dog Show" to Beverly Common recently.
The show enabled us to highlight what we do best — bringing businesses, volunteers and the community together to showcase our great downtown. We hope your readers were able to visit the Common and hang out with sculptor Dale Rogers' 8-foot tall dogs. They left Beverly this morning, and we miss them already!
We have many to thank, including Dale for mounting the show and donating a 5-foot dog to us to raffle off, the businesses that hosted our dog this summer, the businesses that joined us at the Community Dog Party, the Beverly Forestry and Grounds department, the local media that helped us spread the word about the event, storyteller Tony Toledo, the Essex County Sheriff's Department K-9 Unit, the Beverly Chamber of Commerce, and DJs Rick Fafard and Janet Nee. (Read the rest here.)
Copper canines steel the show
Lowell Sun
By Kathleen Pierce, kpierce@lowellsun.com.
September 11, 2009
LOWELL -- Early Wednesday morning, while most of you were sleeping, a pack of dogs invaded the city. One landed at City Hall, four at UMass Lowell, and 14 have taken up under the willow trees at Kerouac Park. The copper canines, standing 8 feet tall, are ideal pets. They don't bark, need to be walked, or require a plastic-bag-carrying owner at their beck and call. (Read the rest here.)
'Big Dogs' to take over Beverly: Sculpture installation kicks off big party
The Salem News
By Larry Claflin Jr.
September 2, 2009
Beverly is going to the dogs, at least for a week. Beginning tomorrow, Beverly Main Streets will sponsor a weeklong Big Dog Show on Beverly Common, where 20 large dog sculptures will be installed until Sept. 9. The 8-foot-high by 10-foot-long American Dogs were created by award-winning metal sculptor Dale Rogers, and Beverly is one stop on a six-city New England tour. (Read the rest here.)
Who let the dogs out? Haverhill artist brings his 10,000-pound metal dog pack to Port waterfront
The Daily News
By Mike LaBella
August 27, 2009
Haverhill sculptor Dale Rogers' traveling exhibit requires a 26-foot trailer capable of carrying 8,000 pounds, and a smaller trailer that can haul 2,000 pounds. Rogers, 36, creates huge dogs and other contemporary sculptures out of costly long-lasting sheets of steel. You may have seen one of his most popular pieces along the highway. (Read the rest here.)
Local metal sculptor to build world record-size dog
The Eagle Tribune
By Mike LaBella
August 11, 2009
HAVERHILL — So you think that metal dog sculpture on the side of the highway near the Ward Hill off-ramp is big? Think again. Its creator, local metal sculptor Dale Rogers, is selling the dog and plans to build a replacement that is the biggest dog sculpture in the world — 42 feet tall and weighing 8 tons. (Read the rest here.)
The Big Dog Show stops in Ogunquit this week
Seacoastonline.com
August 19, 2009
Award-winning metal sculptor Dale Rogers and 20 of his big dogs will stop in Ogunquit this weekend. His traveling exhibit of his unique 8-foot-high by 10-foot-long dog sculptures will be displayat Littlefield Park on Ledge Road from Aug. to Aug. 25. The Big Dog Show is free and open to the public. (Read the rest here.)
‘The Big Dog Show’ unleashed in Portsmouth
the WIRE
Written by Chloe Johnson
Friday, 14 August 2009
‘The Big Dog Show’ unleashed in Portsmouth
Award-winning metal sculptor Dale Rogers is bringing a traveling exhibit of his unique eight-foot high by 10-foot long “American Dog” sculptures in Portsmouth.
“The Big Dog Show” exhibit of 20 sculptures will be on Peirce Island—a popular dog walking destination—from Thursday to Tuesday, Aug. 13 to 18, before moving to Ogunquit, Maine. (Read the rest here.)
Sculptor releases his inner hound
The Boston Globe
By Wendy Killeen
Globe Correspondent / August 6, 2009
Just about everywhere in the country Dale Rogers travels, someone brings up the Route 495 dog. It’s not any dog, of course, but a 16-foot-high, 20-foot-long reddish-brown metal dog, with a cutout of a dog bone in its midsection. And there it stands at Interstate 495’s Exit 48 in Haverhill, looking out over the highway.
“People have always wondered why it’s there,’’ said Rogers, a 36-year-old metal sculptor from Haverhill. “When you create pieces that make people question why, it helps build a long-lasting impression.’’ (Read the rest here.)
'The Big Dog Show' - Peirce Island set to go to the dogs: 20 big, metal, 500-pound dogs
Fosters Daily Democrat
By Charles McMahon
Monday, August 3, 2009
PORTSMOUTH — Like many local dog owners, Award-winning metal sculptor Dale Rogers wants to bring his four-legged friends to Peirce Island to play.
Only Rogers won't need a leash for these canines and shouldn't have to worry about picking up after them considering the fact their made out of metal, stand 8-feet tall and weigh 500 pounds.
The Haverhill, Mass. artist will make a pit stop in the Port City during the week of Aug 13-18 as part of his six-week New England tour of "The Big Dog Show." Rogers plans to bring 20 of his unique 8-foot by 10-foot larger than life dogs and placing them on the grassy area near the boat launch parking lot on Peirce Island. (Read the rest of the story here.)
Name ‘The Big Dog’ Contest
The Beverly Citizen
By Staff reports
Wed Jul 29, 2009, 12:44 PM EDT
Beverly, Mass. -
Beverly Main Streets and the Beverly Citizen are running a contest to choose a name for “The Big Dog.” Sculptor Dale Rogers’ 5-foot-tall, steel dog is visiting various locations around Beverly and will be raffled off at “The Big Dog Show” in September. But, she doesn’t have a name. We’d like her to have one before she goes to her new home.
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'UnCommon Art: 'Big Dog Show' setting up in Bradford
The Haverhill Gazzette
By Cara Spilsbury
July 16, 2009
If one guard dog gets the job done, an army of 20 8-foot tall dogs on your lawn must be even better. But Dale Rogers' giant canines aren't for protection. The metal mutts are the stars in his a public art event that Aug. 6 through 11 on the Bradford Common, aptly named The Big Dog Show. Viewing is free. (Read the rest here.)
Haverhill artist to haul 10,000 pounds of works around region
A 10,000-pound dog pack
Eagle Tribune
By Mike LaBella
mlabella@eagletribune.com
Published: July 9, 2009
HAVERHILL — When most artists take their works on the road for an exhibit, it involves little more than packing up paintings or pottery and loading the trunks of their cars.
But Haverhill sculptor Dale Rogers is preparing a traveling exhibit that will require him to use a 26-foot trailer capable of carrying 8,000 pounds, and a smaller trailer that can haul 2,000 pounds.
Rogers, 36, creates huge dogs and other contemporary sculptures out of costly long-lasting sheets of steel. You may have seen one of his most popular pieces along the highway. (Read the rest of the article by clicking here.)