The Big Pig Gig in Cincinnati starts June 10, but some of the painted fiberglass animals are ready for the Flying Pig Marathon on May 14. The public art display of more than 360 pigs continues through October. Plush, squeezable toy pigs. Winged pig T-shirts.
Porcine pride is now fashionable in Cincinnati.
More than 360 fiberglass pigs individually designed by artists will be deployed around the Cincinnati area in a public art display called the Big Pig Gig through October. It officially starts June 10, but about 100 will be out on street corners, sidewalks, parks and building lobbies in time for the second running of the Flying Pig Marathon on May 14. Corporations have fallen all over themselves to sponsor the sidewalk porkers after the marathon's T-shirts and other promotional items produced fat sales last year. It wasn't always this way. Residents wrote letters to the editor and turned out at a City Council hearing to discuss whether the sculpture would be a permanent embarrassment to Cincinnati.