The statue was controversial while it was planned, when some objected to a pagan figure, and after it was unveiled, when many felt it did not look like a winged serpent and cost too much. San Jose was one of the first cities to set aside 2% of capital project budgets for public art.
Questions people ask
Where is the Quetzalcóatl statue?
At the south end of the downtown plaza.
Who made it?
The sculptor Robert Graham.