Five Florida Artists Complete Video Artworks
Five original video artworks have been installed at the Fort Lauderdale-Hollywood International Airport. The artworks are displayed on plasma screens facing the gate waiting areas and restaurants of Concourse B in Terminal 1. These are now part of Broward County’s Public Art and Design program and the airport’s public art collection. The artworks are an addition to three original video artworks installed in January 2007.
Day on t he Beach/Night on the Town by Mark Diamond is a stop-motion journey from north to south of the beaches in Broward by day, and a colorful animated view of Broward’s n ightlife along the eastern cities. Painted Version of Reality by Thibaut Fagonde explores visual artist Ed King’s world in and out of Kaleidoscope Conspiracy. Monica and Tasha Lopez de Victoria’s (aka The TM Sisters) Forces at Work chronicles the positive attributes of different people and their relation to nature in Broward County.
Play Airplane by Gary Shlifer is the first in a series of experimental expressions of flight. The installation is primarily a moving image presentation of people enacting the fantasy of being an airplane under water. And Kyle Trowbridge’s Sky Fishing uses the perspective of flight to show a different, microscopic view of Broward County by attaching 2.4 GHz cameras to clusters of balloons filled with helium.
Rendering of Artwork at Central Broward Regional Park
Central Broward Regional Park Artwork Set to be Installed and Dedicated
A public art installation dedication ceremony is scheduled for September 11 at Central Broward Regional Park. Public Artist Alice Aycock was commissioned in 2004 to design a water feature at the State Road 7 entrance of Central Broward Regional Park.
Long Key Nature Center and Natural Area (Town of Davie)
Public Artist Lorna Jordan has designed a broad range of elements in the Long Key Nature Center and Natural Area Site such as pavilions, bridges, gathering spaces, towers, pathways, art elements, gardens and water features. Island Garden is approximately 120 feet long by 88 feet wide. Its visual interpretation is reminiscent of patterns in nature such as spiral, branches and partitions. A pathway spirals down a few feet, providing a window into the subterranean world and heightening the visitor’s experience of Long Key’s topography. The artwork, tentatively scheduled to be completed in the fall, is a commission of the Broward County Commission’s Cultural Division for the 2000 Safe Parks and Land Preservation Bond Public Art Master Plan.
Miramar to Open New Library and Education Center
In fall 2008, a new 72,000-square-foot, three-story facility opening in Miramar will house a 30,000-square-foot Broward County Branch Library on the first floor and 42,000 square feet on the second and third floors for use by Broward Community College and Nova Southeastern University.
Artist Robert Calvo, commissioned by by the Broward County Cultural Division’s Public Art and Design Program, has created the artwork for the main lobby. Calvo created a heroic-scaled mural that weaves many layers of imagery and information to acknowledge connections among the community, the region and the encyclopedic nature of the library.
Robert Calvo, Mural, 7’ 6” x 19’ 9,”Mirror
Against a dark celestial background, the artwork offers a diverse and intriguing range of maps, images and symbols referencing topics catalogued according to the Dewey Decimal classification system, which is still widely used by libraries. The mural also includes a layer of actual books that have been gold-leafed to a brilliant luster.
“Libraries are a natural source of inspiration for artists…there being such an abundance of written and visual imagery at one’s fingertips,” the artist says.
Robert Calvo was born in Galveston, Texas, in 1949 and now lives in Portland, Ore. In 1979, he moved to Florida and two years later received his B.A. in art with honors, from the University of South Florida at Tampa. His art is part of many renowned collections including the Tampa Museum of Art, the Norton Museum of Art in West Palm Beach, Microsoft and Barnett Bank. The artist has been the recipient of two grants from the National Endowment for the Arts and has an impressive resume of large-scale public art, including a 250-foot terrazzo map that stretches across the floor between the main lobby to the gate concourse of Miami International Airport.
Call to Artists for Duane Hanson Allied Artist Program Artists are invited to apply for the Duane Hanson Allied Artist Program – Pre-Qualified Roster.
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 encouraging the careers of Broward artists. Hanson served for many years as a member of the Public Art and Design Committee.
The award program is intended to provide local artists with the opportunity to assist experienced artists commissioned for major projects of $50,000 or more by the Public Art and Design Program, in order to gain the technical and administrative expertise they need to compete within the field of public art.
The first project for which an Allied Artist will be selected is FINFAN by artist Ed Carpenter for the Fort Lauderdale-Hollywood International Airport. This project is especially suitable for artists interested in large-scale, three-dimensional, site-specific public art.
Artists who are selected for the pre-qualified roster of Allied Artists, but who are not selected to work on this first project, will remain in the roster for upcoming projects.
To see a full version of the call to artists, including the program’s description, eligibility and submittal requirements, please visit http://www.broward.org/arts/pad/calls.htm.
Fort Lauderdale-Hollywood International Airport Adds Wendy Wischer’s Designs to Buses
Artist Wendy Wischer has been selected to design the new temporary artwraps on the fleet of 27 buses that transport passengers from the terminals to the Rental Car Facility at Fort Lauderdale-Hollywood International Airport.
Romero Britto’s The Hug has graced the buses for the last three years, and upon the conclusion of his temporary artwork installation, Wischer’s artwork will premiere. Her artwork proposal is called Parallel. It is targeted to be installed in time for the winter 2008 travel season.
