KENNEBEC JOURNAL • September 18, 2024
In 2022, an Augusta Downtown Alliance project bought 26 fiberglass sturgeon sculptures and had 25 area artists paint and decorate them. The sculptures were then installed throughout the downtown area in a grant-funded public art initiative celebrating one of the area’s more colorful connections to the Kennebec River. Massive sturgeon annually come up the Kennebec River from the sea, leap out of the river and belly flop back into the water with a loud splash, many in the section of river seen from the city’s downtown riverfront. Twenty-five of the sculptures are now up for bid in an online auction. The alliance’s goal is to raise $20,000.