Puttin’ on the Glitz is a 5-foot high fiberglass statue covered with reflectors created for Jayhawks on Parade a 2003 collaboration between the Lawrence, Kansas Convention and Visitors Bureau, Downtown Lawrence, Inc., the University of Kansas and the Alumni Association. Thirty fiberglass birds, each attached to an 800-pound concrete base, were transformed by 35 artists into creative renderings of the Jayhawk, mascot of the University of Kansas.
