The trail around East Anchorage’s Cheney Lake features a number of pieces of Stuart Benson’s art work.
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“My art pleases me and I just love it that other people love it too,” Benson said. “People come by every day and say how much they like coming by here.” Benson is a longtime carpenter who retired, and is now working full time on his art. Nearly everything he makes he puts in public places or gives away for free.
Benson’s latest gift is to the Alaska Zoo. He’s working on a bench featuring Jake, the beloved brown bear who died at the zoo last summer at the age of 39. He’s carving it out of a 1,000-pound log that was hauled to Anchorage from Seward. So far Benson has put in close to 200 hours on the piece, but still has a way to go.
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