Ceramic artist Laurie Spencer works on the dome of the beehive.
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Ceramic artist Laurie Spencer uses a spray bottle to wet down the clay used in the sculpture.
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Brady Munger of Bowling Green, a summer staff person at the 577 and a student at BGSU, holds a brick of clay for Laurie Spencer.
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Brady Munger passes a brick of clay to ceramic artist Laurie Spencer so she may continue to build the beehive structure.
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Barbara Barron of Perrysburg is one of the pottery students who is volunteering on the project.
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Julie Beutler, pottery director at the 577 foundation, poses with the 8-foot beehive.
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Volunteer Barbara Barron, of Perrysburg, left, and Brady Munger of Bowling Green work with artist Laurie Spencer, at right, to make certain the shape of the dome is self-supporting.
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Ceramic artist Laurie Spencer checks her measurements of the dome to make certain that as the dome narrows at the top the weight of the coils is over the lower walls of the dome and is therefore adequately supported.
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Artist Laurie Spencer touches up some of the coils before wetting the structure down and covering it to prevent the clay from drying out.
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The beehive, created by ceramic artist Laurie Spencer, right, features a door for patrons to enter the structure, and leaf-shaped windows for light and sound to fill the inside of the hive.
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Brady Munger of Bowling Green, left, mists the structure so that the clay will dry evenly. Barbara Barron, of Perrysburg, a volunteer, at center, watches as Laurie Spencer touches up a stem of the design.
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