CAROLINA BEACH —Pleasure Island is getting ready to celebrate its 2025 centennial with a number of art projects, including the first in a series of Venus Flytrap sculptures to be unveiled next week.
The Carolina Beach Island Arts Council’s “Venus Flytrap on Parade” sculpture is modeled after the CowParade international public art phenomenon, which features fiberglass statues of cows decorated by local artists in cities throughout the world.
The arts council is inviting the public to attend a ribbon cutting event on April 9 from 4:30 to 5:30 p.m. at CB town hall to display the town’s first Venus Flytrap statue, which was fabricated by Delco, NC resident Hubert Graham and designed and painted by local artists Rhonda Marsh Lee and Susan Nutall.
Local artists will continue to embellish Venus Flytrap statues throughout 2024 ahead of CB’s centennial next year. The arts council is partnering with the Pleasure Island Chamber of Commerce and CB Centennial Committee on the project, which is funded by town, county, and North Carolina Arts Council grants.
“From March to September 2025, these statues will be installed across the island to celebrate our natural treasures, the creativity of our community, and the uniqueness of our island,” the Island Arts Council wrote in a press release.
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