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104-803: The Fremont Troll (also known as The Troll , or the Troll Under the Bridge ) is a public sculpture in the Fremont neighborhood of Seattle , Washington in the United States. The Troll is a mixed media colossal statue, located on N. 36th Street at Troll Avenue N., under the north end of the George Washington Memorial Bridge (also known as the Aurora Bridge). It is clutching an actual Volkswagen Beetle , as if it had just swiped it from

208-596: A troll living under a bridge is derived from the Scandinavian (Norwegian) folklore . The artists have copyright to the Troll images. They have sued businesses that use its image commercially without written permission. Postcards, beer, and other products approved by the artists are commercially available, and use is free to non-profit organizations. In 1990, the Fremont Arts Council launched an art competition for

312-477: A Time book to find her now-adult father Henry ( Andrew J. West ), who is needed by his family. Henry, along with characters from the New Enchanted Forest, have been brought to the neighborhood under a new curse and are caught in a rising conflict involving Cinderella ( Dania Ramirez ) and Lady Tremaine ( Gabrielle Anwar ), whose dangerous history with Mother Gothel ( Emma Booth ) is revealed, as well as

416-645: A Time first aired on Seven Network , starting on May 15, 2012. In Canada it airs on CTV from October 23, 2011. It premiered on Channel 5 in the United Kingdom on April 1, 2012. On December 17, 2013, it was confirmed that Channel 5 would not be picking the series up for the third season airing in the UK. On March 14, 2015, Netflix picked up the show in the United Kingdom and Ireland, subsequently showing all seasons and premiering each new episode on Wednesdays after their initial showing on Sundays on ABC. All seven seasons of

520-435: A Time in 2004 before joining the writing staff of Lost but wanted to wait until that series was over to focus on this project. The idea is to take these characters that we all know collectively and try to find things about them that we haven't explored before. Sometimes it's a story point, sometimes it's a thematic connection, sometimes it's a dilemma they face in both worlds that is similar. We are not generally retelling

624-581: A bail bond agent named Emma Swan ( Jennifer Morrison ), who is the daughter of Snow White ( Ginnifer Goodwin ) and Prince Charming ( Josh Dallas ). Emma was transported from the Enchanted Forest to the real world via a magic wardrobe as an infant before the curse was cast. As such, she is the Savior, the only person who can break the curse and restore everyone's lost memories. She is aided by her ten-year-old son, Henry Mills ( Jared S. Gilmore ), with whom she

728-460: A commission motive and as a critical focus by artists. The individual, Romantic retreat element implied in the conceptual structure of land art , and its will to reconnect the urban environment with nature, is turned into a political claim in projects such as Wheatfield – A Confrontation (1982) by American artist Agnes Denes , as well as in Joseph Beuys ’ 7000 Oaks (1982). Both projects focus on

832-427: A conscious purpose to "do a show that had optimism at its heart", as they "felt like there was so much darkness in the world". Kitsis said: "We are guys who like to see the world as half-full, not half-empty ", and it's about "seeing that among all the trials and tribulations of life, you can persevere and find light among the darkness"; "it's that ability to think your life will get better". Star Jennifer Morrison told

936-433: A database of public art works, essays and case studies, with a focus on the UK. The Institute for Public Art, based in the UK, maintains information about public art on six continents. The WikiProject Public art project began in 2009 and strove to document public art around the globe. While this project received initial attention from the academic community, it mainly relied on temporary student contributions. Its status

1040-659: A good example although less art is involved. The doual'art project in Douala ( Cameroon , 1991) is based on a commissioning system that brings together the community, the artist and the commissioning institution for the realization of the project. Memorials for individuals, groups of people or events are sometimes represented through public art. Examples are Maya Lin 's Vietnam War Memorial in Washington DC, Tim Tate 's AIDS Monument in New Orleans , and Kenzō Tange 's Cenotaph for

1144-465: A guest appearance in the seventeenth episode. For the third season, Michael Raymond-James was promoted to series regular status as Neal Cassidy, while Ory did not return as a regular due to commitments to the CBS series Intelligence . Ory continued to make recurring appearances throughout the season. For the fourth season, Michael Socha was brought onto the series as Will Scarlet / Knave of Hearts from

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1248-537: A mysterious new arrival: Aladdin ( Deniz Akdeniz ). The war between light and darkness leads to the arrival of the Black Fairy ( Jaime Murray ) as well as the final battle that was prophesied before the casting of the original curse. In the seventh and final season, years after the final battle, Lucy ( Alison Fernandez ) arrives in the fictional neighborhood of Hyperion Heights in Seattle , Washington with her Once Upon

1352-456: A new approach in the way the percent for art was used, or the public art funds of Geneva with the Neon Parallax project involving a very large urban environnement in 2005. For the second one can refer to Les Nouveaux Commanditaires launched by Fondation de France with François Hers in 1990 with the idea a project can respond to a community's wish. The New York High Line from 2009 is

1456-595: A recreated Storybrooke with their memories of the previous year removed, and the envious Zelena / Wicked Witch of the West ( Rebecca Mader ) from Oz appears with a plan to change the past, prompting Emma and Henry to return. In the fourth season , Emma and Hook's time travel adventures lead to the accidental arrival of Elsa ( Georgina Haig ) from the Enchanted Forest of the past to present-day Storybrooke. As she searches for her younger sister Anna ( Elizabeth Lail ) with

1560-642: A replica of the sculpture was built for the show. In the season's fourteenth episode, " The Girl in the Tower ", a backstory for the sculpture is revealed, which includes references to the 1982 children's book The BFG . In 2016, the Chicago rock band Majungas released "The Fremont Troll" off their Seattle Rock album. In 2022, the Seattle Kraken introduced Buoy , a mascot said to be the Fremont Troll's nephew. In 2022,

1664-598: A resistance led by Tiana, and the Coven of the Eight led by Mother Gothel. Most flashbacks involved events that happened before the original curse and before the latest curse that brought everyone to Hyperion Heights, where unlike Storybrooke, its cursed inhabitants are living among ordinary people. The series, including its Wonderland spin-off , have explored beyond the main settings to numerous realms, each based on fairy tales, literature, and folklore. Known realms are Fairy Tale Land ,

1768-546: A review from the St. Louis Post-Dispatch , TV critic Gail Pennington hailed it as one of the "Most Promising Shows of The Fall" and, unlike Gilbert, had high marks for Morrison. USA Today ' s Robert Blanco placed the series on its top ten list, declaring that "There's nothing else on the air quite like it." Mary McNamara of the Los Angeles Times preferred the series to another fairy-tale themed drama, Grimm , citing that

1872-554: A scene of the pilot, in which there is a war council featuring Geppetto, Pinocchio, and Grumpy. Horowitz elaborated, "One of the fun things for us coming up with these stories is thinking of ways these different characters can interact in ways they never have before." Since then, the showrunners have added more elements, and given its ties to Disney , have expanded the universe to include more recent material, by throwing out hints that they might look ahead at incorporating characters from Brave and Frozen in future seasons, if they get

1976-458: A series regular before his character was killed off in the seventh episode (he later appeared as a guest star for the season finale), while Eion Bailey was cast as Pinocchio / August Wayne Booth in a recurring role, starting with the ninth episode, "True North", where he was credited as "Stranger". He was promoted to series regular status for the fifteenth episode, "Red-Handed". Raphael Sbarge portrayed Jiminy Cricket / Dr. Archie Hopper. For

2080-420: A structure for funding public art still utilized today. This program allotted one half of one percent of total construction costs of all government buildings to the purchase of contemporary American art for them. A-i-A helped solidify the policy that public art in the United States should be truly owned by the public. It also promoted site-specific public art. The approach to public art radically changed during

2184-491: Is an example of an interactive, social activist public art project. Rather than metaphorically reflecting social issues, new genre public art strove to explicitly empower marginalized groups while maintaining aesthetic appeal. An example was curator Mary Jane Jacob 's 1993 public art show " Culture in Action " that investigated social systems though engagement with audiences that typically did not visit traditional art museums. In

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2288-458: Is currently unknown. Once Upon a Time (TV series) Once Upon a Time is an American fantasy adventure drama television series that aired for seven seasons on ABC from October 23, 2011, to May 18, 2018. The action alternates between two main settings: a fantastical world where fairy tales happen, and a fictional seaside town in Maine called Storybrooke. The "real-world" part of

2392-524: Is designed to encourage direct hands-on interaction. Examples include public art that contain interactive musical, light, video, or water components. For example, the architectural centerpiece in front of the Ontario Science Centre is a fountain and musical instrument ( hydraulophone ) by Steve Mann where people can produce sounds by blocking water jets to force water through sound-producing mechanisms. An early and unusual interactive public artwork

2496-406: Is not about finding a man or going to a ball all gussied up, but about detective work, about building a relationship with her son Henry, and about seeking the 'truth' as to why time stands still in the corrupt Storybrooke world." The show began to receive less favorable reviews beginning with the second season, and reception became mixed overall until the final season. The first season premiered as

2600-452: Is often created and provided within formal "art in public places" programs that can include community arts education and art performance. Such programs may be financed by government entities through Percent for Art initiatives. Some public art is planned and designed for stability and permanence. Its placement in, or exposure to, the physical public realm requires both safe and durable materials. Public artworks are designed to withstand

2704-489: Is often violent -- including murder, sword fights, and death threats -- and much of the story is clouded in a sense of peril and shifting loyalties. There's some implied sexual content (including shirtless men, women buttoning up their blouses, and lovers escaping out of windows), some innuendo, and some iffy language ("hell", "ass", "suck"). The upside? It has multi-generational appeal, but parents may want to preview before sharing with tweens". E! 's Kristin dos Santos cited

2808-577: Is primarily set in the fictional seaside town of Storybrooke, Maine , in which the residents are actually fairy tale characters that were transported to the real world town and robbed of their memories by Regina , the Evil Queen ( Lana Parrilla ), who used a powerful dark curse obtained from Rumplestiltskin ( Robert Carlyle ). The residents of Storybrooke, where Regina is mayor, have lived an unchanging existence for 28 years, unaware of their own agelessness and their past lives. The town's only hope lies with

2912-580: Is the case for High Line Art, 2009, a commission program for the High Line , derived from the conversion of a portion of railroad in New York City ; and of Gleisdreieck , 2012, an urban park derived from the partial conversion of a railway station in Berlin which hosts, since 2012, an open-air contemporary art exhibition. The 1980s also witnessed the institutionalization of sculpture parks as curated programs. While

3016-604: The Calgary Herald that it's a show about hope and positivity and connectivity, which "encourages people to believe in themselves and believe in the best versions of themselves and to have hope to have the life that they have." A spin-off series, Once Upon a Time in Wonderland , consisting of 13 episodes featuring the title character of the 1865 novel Alice's Adventures in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll , premiered on October 10, 2013, and concluded on April 3, 2014. The series

3120-538: The Chinati Foundation (1986) in Texas, which advocates for the permanent nature of large-scale installations whose fragility may be destroyed when re-locating the work. Public art faces a design challenge by its very nature: how best to activate the images in its surroundings. The concept of “ sustainability ” arises in response to the perceived environmental deficiencies of a city. Sustainable development , promoted by

3224-1035: The Land Without Magic , Wonderland , the Dreamscape , the Land Without Color, the Netherworld , Neverland , Victorian England , the Land of Oz , Kansas , Asgard , 1920s England , the Heroes & Villains alternate reality , the Underworld , the Worst Place , Mount Olympus , the Land of Untold Stories, 19th Century France , the World Behind the Mirror, the Dark Realm,

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3328-622: The Seattle Repertory Theatre produced "Lydia and the Troll" a play that heavily featured the Fremont Troll. Public art Independent art created or staged in or near the public realm (for example, graffiti , street art ) lacks official or tangible public sanction has not been recognized as part of the public art genre, however this attitude is changing due to the efforts of several street artists. Such unofficial artwork may exist on private or public property immediately adjacent to

3432-611: The Smithsonian American Art Museum 's Archives of American Art . It currently holds over six thousand works in its database. There are dozens of non-government organizations and educational institutions that maintain online public art databases of public artworks covering numerous areas, including the National Endowment for the Arts , WESTAF , Public Art Fund , Creative Time , and others. Public Art Online, maintains

3536-470: The United Nations since the 1980s, includes economical, social, and ecological aspects. A sustainable public art work would include plans for urban regeneration and disassembly. Sustainability has been widely adopted in many environmental planning and engineering projects. Sustainable art is a challenge to respond the needs of an opening space in public. In another public artwork titled "Mission leopard"

3640-491: The second season , despite Emma having broken the curse, the characters are not returned to the fairytale world and must deal with their own dual identities. With the introduction of magic into Storybrooke by Rumplestiltskin , the fates of the two worlds become intertwined, and new threats emerge in the form of Killian Jones ( Colin O'Donoghue ), Regina's mother Cora ( Barbara Hershey ), and sinister operatives Greg Mendell ( Ethan Embry ) and Tamara ( Sonequa Martin-Green ) from

3744-537: The "funky" troll was also motivated of concerns about increased development in Fremont, including numerous large apartment buildings and an office park, urbanizing the largely residential neighborhood. The construction of the troll provoked immediate complaints from homeless people who previously lived under the bridge, and in 1991, just a year after it was erected, neighbors funded powerful floodlights to deter squatters and "late-night revelers" from acts of vandalism targeting

3848-409: The 'break-the-curse show.' Despite the comparisons and similarities to Lost , the writers intend them to be very different shows. To them, Lost concerned itself with redemption, while Once Upon a Time is about "hope". Lost co-creator Damon Lindelof aided in the development of the series as an uncredited consultant. Kitsis and Horowitz called him a "godfather" to the series. To differentiate

3952-555: The 1970s by urban cultural policies, for example the New York-based Public Art Fund and urban or regional Percent for Art programs in the United States and Europe. Moreover, public art discourse shifted from a national to a local level, consistent with the site-specific trend and criticism of institutional exhibition spaces emerging in contemporary art practices. Between the 1970s and the 1980s, gentrification and ecological issues surfaced in public art practice both as

4056-401: The 1970s, following the civil rights movement's claims on public space, the alliance between urban regeneration programs and artistic efforts at the end of the 1960s, and revised ideas of sculpture. Public art acquired a status beyond mere decoration and visualization of official national histories in public space. Public art became much more about the public. This perspective was reinforced in

4160-495: The 1990s, some artists called for artistic social intervention in public space. These efforts employed the term "new genre public art" in addition to the terms "contextual art", " relational art ", " participatory art ", "dialog art", " community-based art ", and "activist art". "New genre public art" is defined by Suzanne Lacy as "socially engaged, interactive art for diverse audiences with connections to identity politics and social activism". Mel Chin 's Fundred Dollar Bill Project

4264-523: The 21st Century public art has often been a significant component of public realm projects in UK cities and towns, often via engagement with local residents where artists will work with the community in developing an idea or sourcing content to be featured in the artwork. Examples would include Adrian Riley 's 'Come Follow Me' in Minster in Lincolnshire where a 35m long text artwork in the public square outside

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4368-663: The A-bomb Victims in Hiroshima Peace Memorial Park in Japan. Public art is sometimes controversial. The following public art controversies have been notable: Online databases of local and regional public art emerged in the 1990s and 2000s in tandem with the development of web-based data. Online public art databases can be general or selective (limited to sculptures or murals), and they can be governmental, quasi-governmental, or independent. Some online databases, such as

4472-551: The Fremont Troll partway through the first episode, in which the player can find a picture of the protagonist, Max, and two of her friends from her time living in Seattle, climbing on the sculpture. The seventh and final season of the ABC fantasy-drama series Once Upon a Time features a fictionalized version of the sculpture. Filming for the series took place in Vancouver, Canada , as such,

4576-494: The Gangsta Gardener (or Guerrilla Gardener) of South Central L.A. is an example of an artist whose works constitute temporary public art works in the form of public food gardens that addresses sustainability, food security and food justice . Andrea Zittel has produced works, such as Indianapolis Island that reference sustainability and permaculture with which participants can actively engage. Some public art

4680-635: The Ogre Wars, which played a part in the formation of the War Council that is formed by Prince Charming and served as the catalysts in the backstories involving Rumplestiltskin and the Evil Queen. Several independent kingdoms are implied by an array of different rulers. Most of the stories detailed their earlier lives before ascension to power and being influenced by their mentors through their upbringings. Meanwhile, Storybrooke serves as an isolated town separated from

4784-654: The TV series Exposé , and the MacCutcheon whiskey, can be seen in Once Upon a Time . Mark Isham composed the series' theme and music; he was joined by Cindy O'Connor and Michael D. Simon for the seventh season. An extended play featuring four cues from the score was released on February 15, 2011, by ABC Studios. A full-length 25-track official soundtrack album was released on May 1, 2012, by Intrada Records to accompany season one. Another full-length 25-track official soundtrack album

4888-769: The Wish Realm, New Fairy Tale Land, the Edge of Realms, New Wonderland, and the Prison Realm. In the series finale, all the realms are merged via a variation of the Dark Curse, being known as the United Realms. As a nod to the ties between the production teams of Once Upon a Time and Lost , the former show contains allusions to Lost . For example, many items found in Lost , such as Apollo candy bars , Oceanic Airlines , Ajira Airways ,

4992-458: The agendas of Dr. Facilier ( Daniel Francis ). Lucy must try to break this new curse and free her parents with the help of the now-cursed Regina, Wish Realm Hook, Rumplestiltskin and Zelena. As they succeed in breaking the curse, the arrival of Wish Realm Rumplestiltskin with a plot to condemn every hero into eternal unhappiness leads to an ultimate sacrifice to save their happily ever after. Adam Horowitz and Edward Kitsis conceived Once Upon

5096-561: The aid of the town's residents, they encounter the Snow Queen ( Elizabeth Mitchell ). Meanwhile, Regina seeks the author of Henry's Once Upon a Time book so that she can have her happy ending. Later on, a banished Rumplestiltskin returns with the help of Cruella de Vil ( Victoria Smurfit ), Maleficent ( Kristin Bauer van Straten ), and Ursula ( Merrin Dungey ), carrying out his own plans to rewrite

5200-402: The area under the bridge with the intent to construct hostile architecture to deter the presence of "rodents, mattresses, beer cans, [and] guys sleeping" there, believing that the solution to the issue was "having a piece of art" instead. The piece, built later that same year, easily won the competition, and was meant to become a cultural icon of the city from its conception. The vote in favor of

5304-407: The arrival of Dr. Jekyll ( Hank Harris ) and Mr. Hyde ( Sam Witwer ). In the sixth season , the residents of Storybrooke set out to protect the town from the combined threat of Mr. Hyde and an unleashed Evil Queen, as well as dealing with new arrivals from the Land of Untold Stories. Emma's destiny as the Savior weighs heavy on her, and her desperation to alter her fate leads to revelations about

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5408-402: The balance between light and darkness using Excalibur and the help of a vengeful Zelena. A tragic loss forces Emma to lead a rescue party to the Underworld , where the gang encounters souls of those with unfinished business and must face the conniving Hades ( Greg Germann ). The characters' dangerous manipulations of magic lead to the separation of Regina and her Evil Queen persona, as well as

5512-405: The characters and their connection to the events that preceded the curse and its consequences. The other segment, set in the present day, follows a similar pattern with a different outcome, but also offers similar insights. In the first season , the Evil Queen interrupts the wedding of Snow White and Prince Charming to announce that she will cast a curse on everyone that will leave her with

5616-483: The city received 28 complaints about needles or homelessness within a block of the sculpture. In 2005, the segment of Aurora Avenue North under the bridge, running downhill from the Troll to North 34th Street was renamed "Troll Avenue" in honor of the sculpture. In 2011 the Fremont Arts Council licensed a Chia Pet based on the Fremont Troll that was sold at a local drug store chain.> The stairway leading to

5720-426: The curator and art/architecture historian, Mary Jane Jacob , public art brings art closer to life. Public art is publicly accessible, both physically and/or visually. When public art is installed on privately owned property, general public access rights still exist. Public art is characterized by site specificity , where the artwork is "created in response to the place and community in which it resides" and by

5824-581: The development of public art during the Great Depression but was wrought with propaganda goals. New Deal art programs were intended to develop national pride in American culture while avoiding addressing the faltering economy. Although problematic, New Deal art programs such as FAP altered the relationship between the artist and society by making art accessible to all people. The New Deal program Art-in-Architecture (A-i-A) developed percent for art programs,

5928-481: The elements (sun, wind, water) as well as human activity. In the United States, unlike gallery, studio, or museum artworks, which can be transferred or sold, public art is legally protected by the Visual Artists Rights Act of 1990 (VARA) which requires an official deaccession process for sale or removal. The following forms of public art identify to what extent public art may be physically integrated with

6032-468: The exact same story as the fairy tale world. — Executive producer Adam Horowitz Eight years before the pilot began development (the two had just completed their work on Felicity , in 2002), Kitsis and Horowitz became inspired to write fairy tales out of a love of "mystery and excitement of exploring lots of different worlds." They presented the premise to numerous networks, but were refused due to its fantastical nature. From their time on Lost ,

6136-486: The fact that a curator conducts and supervises the realization of a public art work for a third party, it can also mean that the art work is produced by a community or public who commissions a work in collaboration with a curator-mediator. For the first, significant examples of these prospective manners of commissioning art projects have been established by the Public Art Fund launched by Doris C. Freedman in 1977, with

6240-483: The finale. Principal photography for the series takes place in Vancouver , British Columbia . The village of Steveston in the adjacent city of Richmond doubles as Storybrooke for the series, with props and exterior sets disguising the existing businesses and buildings. During filming, all brightly colored objects (flowers, etc.) are hidden to reinforce the fictional town's spell-subdued character. Certain sets are additionally filmed in separate studios, including

6344-480: The first category, Supernatural in the second two, and Ellen Pompeo (from Grey's Anatomy ) in the last category. The show was nominated at 40th People's Choice Awards but lost to Beauty & the Beast and The Vampire Diaries , respectively. The show was also nominated for "Best Genre Series" at the 2011 Satellite Awards but lost to American Horror Story . The show was nominated in this category again at

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6448-534: The first public and private open-air sculpture exhibitions and collections dating back to the 1930s aimed at creating an appropriate setting for large-scale sculptural forms difficult to show in museum galleries, installations such as Noguchi's Garden in Queens , New York (1985) reflect the necessity of a permanent relationship between the artwork and its site. This relationship also develops in Donald Judd ’s project for

6552-474: The fourth season. The seventh and final season marked a major cast overhaul for the series, with original cast members Goodwin, Morrison, Dallas and Gilmore as well as long-time cast members De Ravin and Mader all exiting as regulars. Gilmore and Mader joined the recurring cast for the season, while Goodwin, Morrison, Dallas and De Ravin all made guest appearances, particularly in the finale. Along with departures, Andrew J. West and Alison Fernandez joined

6656-510: The green light from Disney. The characters from Frozen and Brave ultimately appeared as supporting characters in the fourth and fifth seasons, respectively. The general premise, importing the Snow White core characters into the "real world", was previously seen on ABC television in the short-lived 1980s comedy The Charmings . The show also has a similar premise to Bill Willingham 's ten-year-old comic series Fables , to which ABC bought

6760-459: The immediate context or environment. These forms, which can overlap, employ different types of public art that suit a particular form of environment integration. In the 1930s, the production of national symbolism implied by 19th century monuments began being regulated by long-term national programs with propaganda goals ( Federal Art Project , United States; Cultural Office, Soviet Union). Programs like President Roosevelt's New Deal facilitated

6864-465: The increase of ecological awareness through a green urban design process, bringing Denes to plant a two-acre field of wheat in downtown Manhattan and Beuys to plant 7000 oaks coupled with basalt blocks in Kassel, Germany in a guerrilla or community garden fashion. In recent years, programs of green urban regeneration aiming at converting abandoned lots into green areas regularly include public art programs. This

6968-571: The interior of Mr. Gold's pawn shop and the clock tower, which are not found in Steveston. Downtown Vancouver doubles as other major cities such as New York City , Boston and Seattle . During the first six seasons, the Enchanted Forest and Storybrooke, Maine are the main settings of the series. The Enchanted Forest is a realm within Fairy Tale Land, but the actual spread and scope of the realm are not known. However, they are later united during

7072-508: The main cast for the season as an older Henry and his daughter Lucy, respectively, after guest starring in the previous season's finale. Dania Ramirez and Gabrielle Anwar joined the main cast as new iterations of Cinderella and Lady Tremaine , respectively; Anwar exited after the eleventh episode, where her character was killed off. Mekia Cox , who portrays Tiana , was promoted to the main cast after initially joining as recurring. Additionally, Sbarge and Maguire made guest appearances in

7176-456: The main cast. Ory also returned in a recurring capacity after being absent since the third season. Additionally, Raymond-James made a guest appearance in the twelfth episode. For the sixth season, Maguire exited the main cast after his character was killed off in the previous season but remained in a recurring capacity as an alternate version of the character. Sbarge and Bailey also returned in recurring capacities, both having been absent since

7280-496: The number one non-sports program in the U.S. with viewers and young adults on Sunday nights. Once Upon a Time was nominated for a 2012 People's Choice Award for "Favorite New TV Drama", but lost to Person of Interest . The show was nominated at the 39th People's Choice Awards in four categories: Favorite Network TV Drama, Favorite Sci-Fi/Fantasy Show, Favorite TV Fan Following, and Favorite TV Drama Actress ( Ginnifer Goodwin ); it lost to another ABC show Grey's Anatomy in

7384-470: The only happy ending. As a result, the majority of the characters are transported to the town of Storybrooke, Maine , where most of them have been stripped of their original memories and identities as fairy tale characters . On her 28th birthday, Emma Swan , the daughter of Snow White and Prince Charming, is brought to Storybrooke by her biological son Henry Mills in the hopes of breaking the curse cast by his adoptive mother, Regina Mills –the Evil Queen. In

7488-406: The premise takes its time building up the charm and that the producer "has that part nailed". She also gave excellent reviews for Morrison's character: "Her Emma is predictably cynical and prickly – fairy-tale princess, my Aunt Fanny – but she's sharp and lively enough to keep audiences begging for 'just a few more pages' before they go to bed." Several feminist outlets were pleased with

7592-414: The public realm, or in natural settings but, however ubiquitous, it sometimes falls outside the definition of public art by its absence of public process or public sanction as "bona fide" public art. Common characteristics of public art are public accessibility, public realm placement, community involvement, public process (including public funding); these works can be permanent or temporary. According to

7696-653: The real world with an agenda to destroy magic. In the third season , the main characters travel to Neverland to rescue Henry, who has been kidnapped by Peter Pan ( Robbie Kay ) as part of a plan to obtain the "Heart of the Truest Believer" from him. Their increasing power struggle with Pan continues in Storybrooke, which results in the reversal of the original curse. All the characters are returned to their original worlds, leaving Emma and Henry to escape to New York City . The characters are then mysteriously brought back to

7800-666: The relationship between its content and the public. Cher Krause Knight states that "art's publicness rests in the quality and impact of its exchange with audiences ... at its most public, art extends opportunities for community engagement but cannot demand particular conclusion,” it introduces social ideas but leaves room for the public to come to their own conclusions. Public art is often characterized by community involvement and collaboration. Public artists and organizations often work in conjunction with architects, fabricators/construction workers, community residents and leaders, designers, funding organizations, and others. Public art

7904-563: The rest of the Land Without Magic, where the cursed inhabitants are trapped by various forces. During the seventh season, the New Enchanted Forest and Hyperion Heights, Seattle are the main settings. As a realm in New Fairy Tale Land, the New Enchanted Forest is divided into several independent kingdoms with different rulers. The inhabitants are in conflict with each other, most notably between Lady Tremaine, Cinderella, Drizella,

8008-428: The rights in 2008 but never made it past planning stages. After Fables fans raised controversy over possible appropriation, the show writers initially denied a link, but later said they may have "read a couple issues" of the comic book and while the two concepts are "in the same playground", they are "telling a different story." Bill Willingham responded to the controversy in an interview, where he stated he did not feel

8112-464: The roadway above. The vehicle has a California license plate . Originally, the car held a time capsule , including a plaster bust of Elvis Presley , which was stolen when the sculpture was vandalized. The Troll is 18 ft (5.5 m) high, weighs 13,000 lb (5,900 kg), and is made of steel rebar , wire, and concrete . The Troll was sculpted by four artists: Steve Badanes , Will Martin, Donna Walter, and Ross Whitehead. The idea of

8216-471: The rules governing the fates of all heroes and villains. Henry and Emma race to restore reality and the truth before the twisted inversion becomes permanent. In the fifth season , the characters embark on a quest to Camelot to find the Sorcerer Merlin ( Elliot Knight ) in order to free Emma from the powers of an ancient darkness. To complicate matters, King Arthur ( Liam Garrigan ) sets out to alter

8320-417: The same way, asking themselves, "How do we make these icons real, make them relatable?" The pilot is meant to be the "template of the series". Kitsis confirmed that every week will contain flashbacks between both worlds, as they "love the idea of going back and forth and informing what the character is missing in their life." The writers' desire to present a "mash up" of many small characters can be seen in

8424-492: The second season, Meghan Ory and Emilie de Ravin were promoted to series regulars as Red Riding Hood / Ruby and Belle / Lacey respectively, while Bailey made guest appearances in two episodes and Sbarge joined the recurring cast. Colin O'Donoghue was cast as Captain Killian "Hook" Jones , initially in a recurring role, before being promoted to the main cast starting from the fourteenth episode. Additionally, Dornan made

8528-621: The series were released on Disney+ in September 2020, and on Hulu in September 2023. Critical response to the first season was generally positive. On Metacritic , it was given a score of 66 out of 100 with "generally favorable reviews". Common Sense Media rated the show 4 out of 5 stars, stating, "Parents need to know that although Once Upon a Time is inspired by classic fairy tales such as Snow White , Pinocchio , and revivals of popular stories such as Mulan, Brave, and Frozen , it's not always age-appropriate for younger kids. The content

8632-464: The show as one of the five new shows of the 2011–2012 season to watch. Matthew Gilbert of The Boston Globe gave the show a "C+" grade commenting: From a pair of Lost producers, this is a love-or-hate proposition. The ambition is impressive, as it asks us to imagine Goodwin's Snow White and Parrilla's Evil Queen as moderns. But Morrison is a wooden lead, and the back stories – a random collection of fairy tales -- don't promise to surprise." In

8736-414: The show for its feminist twist on fairy tales. Avital Norman Nathman of Bitch stated that she liked the show for "infusing a feminist sensibility" into the stories. Genie Leslie at Feministing commented that Emma was a "badass", that she liked how Emma was "very adamant that women be able to make their own decisions about their lives and their children", and how Emma was a "well-rounded" character who

8840-405: The show was plagiarism and said: "Maybe they did remember reading Fables back then, but didn't want to mention it because we've become a very litigious people." The secondary character casting director Samuel Forsyth started the casting process in 2010. Horowitz stated that everyone they initially wanted for roles in the series accepted their roles after being sent a script. Ginnifer Goodwin

8944-497: The spin-off Once Upon a Time in Wonderland , while Raymond-James exited the regular cast after his character was killed off in the previous season. Bailey returned in a recurring arc towards the end of the season after being absent since the second season. For the fifth season, Rebecca Mader and Sean Maguire were promoted to series regular status as Zelena / Wicked Witch of the West and Robin Hood respectively, while Socha exited

9048-408: The story takes place in Seattle, Washington , in the fictitious neighborhood of "Hyperion Heights", with a new main narrative led by adult Henry ( Andrew J. West ), and his wife and daughter. Once Upon a Time was created by Lost and Tron: Legacy writers Edward Kitsis and Adam Horowitz . The core themes of the show are hope and optimism. Horowitz told The Hollywood Reporter that they had

9152-418: The story unfolds with the characters of Emma Swan ( Jennifer Morrison ) and her 10-year-old son, Henry Mills ( Jared S. Gilmore ). Henry discovers the other people of the town are fairy-tale characters. The audience is shown the backstory of the town's people as fairy-tale characters, in conjunction with their unfolding stories in the "real-world". In the seventh and final season, the "real-world" portion of

9256-420: The storytelling from what the audience already knew, the writing staff decided to begin the pilot with the end of the typical Snow White fairytale. Themes concerning family and motherhood were emphasized, in contrast to the focus on fatherhood in Lost . Kitsis and Horowitz sought to write strong female characters, rather than the classic damsel in distress . Horowitz stated their desire to approach each character

9360-470: The top of the sculpture was rebuilt in September 2023 using funds from the Move Seattle levy; the Troll is planned to be surrounded by more vegetation planted by volunteers the following month. The 1999 romantic comedy film 10 Things I Hate About You features the Fremont Troll in a scene between Joseph Gordon-Levitt 's and Larisa Oleynik 's characters. The 2015 video game Life is Strange features

9464-483: The top-rated drama series. The pilot episode was watched by 13 million viewers and received a 4.0 rating/share among 18- to 49-year-olds. It was the season's highest-rated drama debut among the age range and ABC's biggest debut in five years. With DVR viewers, the premiere climbed to 15.5 million viewers and a 5.2 rating/share in adults 18–49. The show's next three episodes had consistent ratings every week with over 11 million viewers. The series became

9568-415: The town's Minster includes local residents own stories alongside official civic history and the town's origin myth. The term "curated public art" is used to define the way of producing public art that significantly takes into account the context, the process and the different actors involved. It defines itself slightly differently from top-down approaches of direct commissioning. If it mainly designates

9672-517: The troll's beard and hair, as well as the continued dumping of trash around it by homeless people who used to live there. Despite the intent of the arts council, the sculpture has periodically been the target of vandalism, although local activists have made efforts to clean graffiti on a regular basis, and the city of Seattle has swept homeless encampments adjacent to the sculpture following repeated drug overdoses in January 2019; from January to mid-May alone,

9776-401: The writers learned to look at the story in a different way, namely that "character has to trump mythology." They explained, As people, you've got to see what the void in their heart or in their lives is to care about them ... For us, this was as much about the character journeys and seeing what was ripped from them in coming to Storybrooke – going at it that way as opposed to making it

9880-664: Was Jim Pallas ' 1980 C entury of Light in Detroit, Michigan of a large outdoor mandala of lights that reacted in complex ways to sounds and movements detected by radar (mistakenly destroyed 25 years later ). Another example is Rebecca Hackemann's two works The Public Utteraton Machines of 2015 and The Urban Field Glass Project / Visionary Sightseeing Binoculars 2 008, 20013, 2021, 2022. The Public Utteraton Machines records people's opinions of other public art in New York, such as Jeff Koon's Split Rocker and displays responses online . In

9984-400: Was "feminine, but not 'girly ' ". Natalie Wilson from Ms. praised the show for a strong, "kick-butt" female lead, for including multiple strong women who take turns doing the saving with the men, for subverting the fetishization of true love, and for dealing with the idea of what makes a mother in a more nuanced fashion. Wilson went on to state of the lead: "Her pursuit of a 'happy ending'

10088-417: Was cast as Emma Swan . The actress explained her character as someone who "help[s] her son Henry whom she abandoned when he was a baby and who seems like he's a little bit emotionally dysfunctional", but noted that Emma does not start out believing in the fairytale universe. Ten-year-old Jared S. Gilmore , known for his work on Mad Men , took the role of her son, Henry. The role of the Evil Queen / Regina

10192-484: Was cast as Snow White / Mary Margaret Blanchard, who appreciated that she would be playing a strong character that was fleshed out for the audience. Goodwin had stated in interviews that she would love to play Snow White, and called her acceptance of the role "a no-brainer." Both Kitsis and Horowitz are self-described big fans of Goodwin's previous series, Big Love , and wrote the part of Snow White with her in mind. Josh Dallas , who portrays Prince Charming / David Nolan,

10296-450: Was commissioned in 2016 in Haryana, India, among the remote deciduous terrain of Tikli village a team coordinated by Artist Hunny Mor painted two leopards perched on branches on a water source tank 115 feet high. The campaign was aimed to spread awareness on co-habitation and environmental conservation. The art work can be seen from several miles across in all directions. Ron Finley 's work as

10400-500: Was given to Lana Parrilla . "There's always two stories being told when playing Regina. There's the threat of her knowing she's an evil queen and then there's just the pure simple fact that the biological mother has stepped into her world and the threat of losing her son is just enormous. That's a fear that I think any adopted mother would have. I think that's going to really help the audience relate to Regina in some level." — Lana Parrilla The role of Rumplestiltskin / Mr. Gold

10504-456: Was given to Robert Carlyle , after having been written with him in mind, though the writers initially thought he would not accept the part. Horowitz recalled Carlyle's prison sequence, which was the actor's first day on the set as "mind-blowing ... You could see Ginny actually jump, the first time he did that character. It was fantastic!" Jamie Dornan portrayed the Huntsman / Sheriff Graham as

10608-461: Was pleased the writers took "some dramatic license" with his character, believing the prince had become more real. He explained, Prince Charming just happens to be a name. He's still a man with the same emotions as any other man. He's a Prince, but he's a Prince of the people. He gets his hands dirty. He's got a kingdom to run. He has a family to protect. He has an epic, epic love for Snow White. He's like everybody else. He's human. Jennifer Morrison

10712-411: Was recently reunited after giving him up for adoption upon his birth, and his Once Upon a Time book of fairy tales that holds the key to breaking the curse. Henry is also the adopted son of Regina, providing a source of both conflict and common interest between the two women. Episodes usually have one segment that details the characters' past lives that, when serialized, adds a piece to the puzzle about

10816-437: Was released on August 13, 2013, by Intrada to accompany season two. Since December 2015, Mark Isham had begun to release music that was previously not released from the third, fourth, and fifth seasons on his SoundCloud account. An extended play featuring nine tracks from the score for the seventh season was released on August 17, 2018, by ABC Studios. The series has been licensed to over 190 countries. In Australia, Once Upon

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