{"id":2559,"date":"2026-06-18T10:20:09","date_gmt":"2026-06-18T14:20:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/americanscottishfoundation.com\/programs\/?p=2559"},"modified":"2026-06-18T10:20:09","modified_gmt":"2026-06-18T14:20:09","slug":"andy-scott-receives-obe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/americanscottishfoundation.com\/programs\/?p=2559","title":{"rendered":"Andy Scott receives OBE"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We are immensely proud and congratulate Andy Scott who has received the OBE (Officer of the Order of the British Empire) in the King&#8217;s Birthday Honour.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-2561 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/americanscottishfoundation.com\/programs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/artist3-1-300x273.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"273\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Andy is a world renown Sculptor whose work stands out above all others. His varied and innovative work was recognized as outstanding services to sculpture in the arts. Andy is also a member of the St. Andrew&#8217;s Society of Los Angeles, the American Scottish Foundation and the Chicago Scots.<\/p>\n<p>Andy Scott is known for his work with the Kelpies.The two steel horses heads are the largest equine sculptures in the world, inspired by the cultural heritage of the Clydesdale horses, draught horses, which worked hard to help people along the canals and on the land. His\u00a0artworks combine traditional draftsmanship and skill with contemporary fabrication techniques, and range in scale from 3 to 30 metres (10-100 feet) in height.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span>He uses a distinctive welded steel assembly technique, wherein sculptural forms are composed of thousands of assembled small steel sections.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>For a period of time, the two 15-foot scale models of the Kelpies came to Bryant Park, where they stayed to celebrate Tartan Week in 2014.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/americanscottishfoundation.com\/Initiatives\/images\/kelpies_bryantpark.jpg\" width=\"450\" height=\"356\" border=\"1\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Congratulations Andy!<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We are immensely proud and congratulate Andy Scott who has received the OBE (Officer of the Order of the British Empire) in the King&#8217;s Birthday Honour.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":2562,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[909,1010,134,1013,1092,1091],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/americanscottishfoundation.com\/programs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2559"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/americanscottishfoundation.com\/programs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/americanscottishfoundation.com\/programs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/americanscottishfoundation.com\/programs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/americanscottishfoundation.com\/programs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2559"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/americanscottishfoundation.com\/programs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2559\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2563,"href":"https:\/\/americanscottishfoundation.com\/programs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2559\/revisions\/2563"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/americanscottishfoundation.com\/programs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/2562"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/americanscottishfoundation.com\/programs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2559"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/americanscottishfoundation.com\/programs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2559"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/americanscottishfoundation.com\/programs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2559"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}