URSA MAJOR

AKA

PENNY BEAR

The first in our series of bear sculptures and a delight for participants who affectionately called: Penny Bear. Penny Bear is made of 170,000 pennies that are inserted into concrete to resemble a fur pattern. Our team of over 20 volunteers worked with us for 5 months Pennies were donated by friends and family in Canada and the United States.

Penny Bear was a Burning Man Arts honoraria project for 2016 and shortly after Burning Man she was sold to Steven and Judy Gluckstern in Santa Fe, NM. In 2018, the Glucksterns kindly loaned Penny Bear for a nine month, Smithsonian American Art Museum exhibition in Washington, DC called No Spectators: The Art of Burning Man.