Carousel Cosmos is a public art installation, and public art is for everyone. Carousel Cosmos is for Everyone, in all of time and all of space. If for any reason you can’t visit the animals in person, they can visit you.

Click here to download a free printable pdf of the Carousel Cosmos Interdimensional Craft Kit.

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scroll through to choose an individual papercraft:

And why should the crafting end there? You can add your own animals to the carousel if you like. They could be stick puppets. You could put them in a diorama, all drinking milk and eating cookies together. You could hang them up in a mobile or a garland. You could put them in your very own model of the universe, a universe filled with things like kindness, adventure, outer space, bedtime stories, dinosaurs, milk, cookies and ice cream.

Me and Bob on the Western Promenade, June 2023.

Thank you to Chickadeeds and Barbara Bush Children’s Hospital for instigating this interdimensional papercraft kit.

Thank you to everyone who made Carousel Cosmos possible, including TEMPOart, the City of Portland’s Public Art Committee, Parks & Recreations Department and their world-renowned horticulture team.

Thank you to the animal sponsors: Drummond Woodsum; Gregg Lipton & Sara Crisp; Maine Medical Center; The Chappell Family Foundation; The David Nichols Charitable Trust; The Horizon Foundaton; Cyrus Hagge and Jessica Tomlinson.

This map shows the current location of Carousel Cosmos, on view until at least June 8th of 2024.

Questions or comments? Feel free to send a note at the bottom of this page.