Artist Steven Sylvester Selected
as Allied Artist for Airport Art Project
 The Broward Cultural Division Public Art & Design Program has named Broward artist Steven Sylvester as the Allied Artist for Terminal 3 Terrazzo Floor Design Project at the Fort Lauderdale-Hollywood International Airport. The artist team commissioned for the project is David M. Griggs and Scott Parsons. The Duane Hanson Allied Artist Award Program was established in 1994 to honor internationally-recognized artist Duane Hanson, who resided in this community and who was instrumental in supporting and advancing the careers of Broward artists. Allied Artists are partnered with commissioned artists based on their level of experience, artistic medium and general interests.
Terminal 3 Terrazzo Floor Design Project is a major component of the modernization and reconfiguration plan that the airport is implementing to provide passengers and visitors with a more efficient and pleasant experience. The Terrazzo Floor will cover 67,500 sq. ft. of the Departures Level of Terminal 3, and Concourses E and F. The design is based on the vastness, beauty and complexity of the environments of South Florida and uniqueness of the area’s ecosystems. It will illustrate the flow of water from fresh to salt through depiction of the Everglades biome to the west and the Atlantic Ocean to the east.
Steven Sylvester was selected by the commissioned artists, Griggs & Parsons, to be their Allied Artist because of his drive and appreciation for uncommon use of materials. Sylvester creates exceptional, noteworthy work. His current work-in-progress, a series of life-sized ladies dresses made from clay and wire, continues to amplify this drive as it develops into the traveling museum show for which it is slated. Sylvester became a member of Architectural Ceramic artist Peter King's StoneHaus team, where, by the side of this world-renowned artist, he worked on numerous public and private commissioned art projects, further feeding his drive for uncommon material use in addition to large scale public works.
The late Duane Hanson served for many years as a member of the Public Art & Design Committee. The Allied Artist Award program provides local artists the opportunity to gain the technical and administrative expertise needed to compete within the field of public art, by assisting experienced artists commissioned for major projects of $50,000 or more by the Public Art and Design Program. The responsibilities of Allied Artists include, but are not limited to, coordinating and attending community and agency meetings; conducting research regarding materials, design issues, and building codes; assisting in the coordination and installation of artworks; writing reports, and any other duties requested by the commissioned artist that relate to the design, fabrication and installation of the artwork.
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Call to Artists Rotating Exhibition Opportunities
Broward County artists are invited to apply for rotating exhibition opportunities at Fort Lauderdale-Hollywood International Airport. The Lee Wagener Art Gallery is located in Terminal 2 - Departures Level. This opportunity, offered through the Public Art & Design Program, offers Broward County artists an excellent location to exhibit their work in a prominent, high-traffic area that is accessible to the public. The deadline for the Call to Broward Artists is June 1, 2012.
Artworks demonstrating high artistic quality that appeal to and are appropriate for a diverse audience are encouraged. Artists selected will be required to provide artworks for one (1) exhibition for 18 running feet of wall space on both sides of the gallery, for a total of 36 feet of wall space. Each exhibition will run for three (3) months.
Selected artists will receive an honorarium of $500 upon the conclusion of their exhibition.
View full version of the Call, including the project description, eligibility, and submittal requirements (PDF)
The Broward County Public Art & Design Program established in 1976, contributes to the enhancement of the built environment through the implementation of commissioned works of art that create a sense of place, improve the visual experience for the citizens of Broward County, and advance the missions of the County departments where the projects are situated.
For more information, contact Christina Roldan, Public Art & Design project manager, 954-357-8542. Also, visit the Broward Cultural Division website, at www.broward.org/arts.>
Broward County Public Art & Design Program
Announces Nine More Cultural Heritage Landmarks
Broward-based artist Alicia Bellini-Sobchak was competitively-selected to design a landmarker for the Broward Cultural Heritage Landmark Program —a collaboration between Broward County’s Cultural Division and Broward Historical Commission. The markers identify and honor important cultural and historic sites; currently there are more than 120 historic sites mapped throughout Broward County.
In 2006, the first four installed landmarkers were Wray Botanical Collection at Flamingo Gardens; Pine Island Ridge at Tree Tops Park; Tequesta Indian Village at Peace Mound Park and Ely Educational Museum at Blanche & Joseph Ely House. With feedback, the artist re-designed the markers in order to make them more affordable; the new markers are made of long-lasting porcelain.
Recently, nine additional markers were installed and included: Bonnet House, Snow-Reed Swing Bridge and West Side School in Fort Lauderdale; and Curci House in Hallandale Beach. Five additional installations included: Hammerstein House in Hollywood; Sample McDougald House in Pompano Beach; Richardson Historic Park in Wilton Manors; Coral Springs Covered Bridge and Doris Davis Foreman Wilderness Preserve in Parkland.
The artist conducted extensive research into the history and culture of Broward County from antiquity to present day, working with the Broward County Historical Commission; local historians and educators; Archaeologist Dr. Bob Carr, an expert in Florida archaeology; and individuals from the sites where the prototypes are installed. The Cultural Heritage Landmark Project has a challenge to have 10 markers installed each year in order to have 100 markers in place by the County’s 100th birthday in 2015. Cities are encouraged to become a part of this unifying program by commissioning markers for landmarks within their cities.
Public Art News at
Fort Lauderdale-Hollywood International Airport
Isaac Allen Sandy’s epic, award-winning landscape, nature and contemporary exhibition, Essential Works, opened at the Fort Lauderdale-Hollywood International Airport in January. The exhibition, at the Lee Wagener Art Gallery, in Terminal 2 Departures Level, will run through April 5, 2012.
Essential Works will capture your heart and imagination at first glance. This collection conveys Sandy’s signature style, evoking the viewer’s sense of imagination and the feeling as though one might step right into scenes he creates. He incorporates the dramatic use of color, with balance, mood and light to intensify the viewer’s sense of vision, discovery and acceptance.
Isaac Allen Sandy has been privileged to exhibit at the Naples Museum of Art along with other notable artists such as Clyde Butcher and Jeremiah Jenner, and is collected throughout the United States and Canada in the public, corporate and private sectors. A part-time artist and musician, Sandy divides his time between pursuing his love of photography and his love of music along with the corporate world as an I.T. director in the environmental engineering sector. He remains passionately engaged in mingling his love of music with the visual art form of photography.
The Lee Wagener Art Gallery, supported by Broward Cultural Division’s Public Art & Design Program and the Broward County Aviation Department, offers Broward artists an opportunity to exhibit their work in a prominent, high traffic area. Artists are selected through the Public Art & Design Program. Exhibits are changed every three months. Also on view in the gallery is the public art video, Tree-Rain, a permanent artwork by Broward-based artists Suzanne Scherer and Pavel Ouporov.
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Public Artwork Completed
AQUARIA by Artist Larry Kirkland
Artist Larry Kirkland designed AQUARIA for installation on the ceilings of two sky bridges
connecting the Greater Fort Lauderdale / Broward County Convention Center to the adjacent parking garage. The artwork transforms the utilitarian corridors into an unforgettable experience for Convention Center visitors. AQUARIA consists of countless stainless steel fish scale shapes mounted within the curved ceiling coffers to reflect artificial and natural light, as well as an ever-changing LED lighting display. The best time to view the artwork is at night when the LED lighting illuminates the metal fish scales with a wide array of beautiful color palettes, suggesting the vast variety of colorful fish that inhabit area waters.
“Fort Lauderdale, built between the Atlantic Ocean and the Everglades, threaded with miles of canals and lagoons, is a water city,” says Kirkland. “The iconic fountain in front of the Convention Center of a leaping sailfish celebrates the famed game fish of the region. Inside the Convention Center the carpet is a swirl of ocean fish and marine mammals. AQUARIA builds upon this theme in the two sky bridges that are main entries to the Convention Center.”
Port Everglades Cruise Ship Terminal Renovation Projects
Three local artists have been selected to design, fabricate and install functionally-integrated artworks for three cruise ship terminals that are under renovation at Port Everglades.
Carlos Alves, from Miami, will design the ceramic and steel artwork that will line the highly-visible walls of the elevator core for Terminal 26; Mark Fuller from West Pam Beach will create a mobile of suspended fish sculptures that visually move in the desired direction of the passenger traffic flow within Terminal 19; and Xavier Cortada, also from Miami, will design monumental scale starfish to be suspended from grids attached to the ceiling in Terminal 2’s main waiting room. Cortada is also creating a glass and ceramic mural with a pelican sculpture that will engage embarking passengers. These terminals (T-2, T-19 and T-26) will serve embarking cruise ship passengers; and it is intended that these art projects will have a functional aspect such as wayfinding within the terminal, and help to promote tourism by improving the cruise passenger experience
Artworks at Fort Lauderdale-Hollywood International Airport
Now Available with QR Codes!
Recently, QR (Quick Response) codes were installed on nearly all of the 54 artworks located at the Fort Lauderdale-Hollywood International Airport (FLL), by the Broward Cultural Division. This new feature offers visitors and art connoisseurs the convenience of immediate access to detailed information on artworks in the collection, both in the terminals and around the airport.
With any of several QR Code Reader Apps on their Smartphone, travelers are able to scan the QR code on the artwork and be taken directly to the Public Art & Design Tour on the Broward County website. For ease and accessibility, look for the sign next to each artwork that gives the name and QR Code; scan it and click.
To see all of the Broward County Public Art, log on to Broward Cultural Division website, and take the virtual tour.
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