jean shin's "everyday monuments"

This is a cool New York Times piece on artist Jean Shin and her latest installation, starting on May 1, at the Smithsonian American Art Museum in Washington. It sounds pretty cool: Because Everyone Deserves a Trophy.

From what I can tell, "Everyday Monuments" is a shoulder-to-shoulder crowd in miniature -- modeled on the protests and celebrations seen on the National Mall in D.C. -- created from the refashioned pieces and figures of discarded trophies.

To create the installation, she gathered the donations of more than 2,000 trophies with the help of the Smithsonian and local donors. That third-place softball trophy that was gathering dust on in the basement has found new life as art.