PORT ANGELES –Everyone’s a critic.
Apparently even a Crescent High School student, who on a field trip Tuesday to the Port Angeles Fine Arts Center apparently made an unwelcome addition to an art piece.
Port Angeles police said Wednesday they are investigating the possibility of arresting the student for second-degree malicious mischief in the vandalism of a piece titled “Buoy” by Seattle-based artist Tom Jacobs.
The students were on a field trip to the art museum at 1203 E. Lauridsen Blvd. when the student broke a heavy glass plate in the center of the piece in the outdoor exhibit as he departed.
Center Executive Director Jake Seniuk described the piece as looking like “a flying saucer, half-buried.”
The art piece is part of Webster’s Woods Art Park which surrounds the center. The park has 112 pieces in it.
The museum’s outdoor pieces have been vandalized in the past, but the incidents always occurred at night and without witnesses.
Port Angeles Police Officer Tom Kuch said there is a suspect in the investigation.