Editing Lexington, North Carolina (section)

===Pigs in the City===
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"Pigs in the City" is a public art initiative coordinated by Uptown Lexington, Inc., a [[non-profit]] organization created to revitalize the downtown (locally called "uptown") area of Lexington. People paid commissions to artists to decorate life-sized sculptures of pigs, which were installed throughout the city. Pigs in the City began in 2003, and the event drew more than 40,000 visitors from all over the state in its first year.<ref>[http://www.electricities.com/press/news/morganton_hosts.htm "Lexington: Pigs in the City"] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20040702142745/http://www.electricities.com/press/news/morganton_hosts.htm |date=July 2, 2004 }}, Electric Cities</ref> The cost to "sponsor" one of the 20 pigs on display was $1,000 during the first exhibition, which paid for the initiative.<ref name="newsrecord">{{cite news|title=Life-size porker promotion proves popular to public|first1=Amy |last1=Dominello |first2=Tina |last2=Firesheets |first3=Sue |last3=Schultz |first4=Eric |last4=Swensen |publisher=Greensboro News-Record}}</ref> The event ran from 2003–2005, and 2008–2009. In 2019, it was announced that Pigs in the City will return in 2020.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.the-dispatch.com/news/20190917/uptown-lexington-announces-return-of-pigs-in-city|title=Uptown Lexington announces the return of Pigs in the City|work=The Dispatch|publisher=GateHouse Media, LLC|last=Myers|first=Sharon|date=September 17, 2019|access-date=October 5, 2019}}</ref>