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Description: The transit shelter was created with
the help of art students from Corona del Sol High School. The
seating is designed to look like miniature city buildings under the
shade structure which looks like clouds.
Tempe’s goal with its Artist Designed Transit Shelters is to
encourage people to use the public transportation by making it
attractive, innovative and functional.
Funding:
The project was funded through city of Tempe Capital Improvement
Project Percent for Art funds made available through the Tempe
Transit tax.
Artists biographies:
Nina Ilitzky Solomon received her MFA in Sculpture from Arizona
State University and her BS in Art Education from Kent State
University. She has created a number of public art pieces in
collaboration with other artists and community groups.
Sue Chenoweth received her MFA and BFA from Arizona State
University. She has exhibited artwork in numerous solo and group
shows. Chenoweth has completed several participatory public art
projects in Phoenix and Tempe.
Artist statement:
For the past six
years, in addition to her own artwork, Nina Ilitzky
Solomon
has been working on public projects, many of which have involved
communities. Solomon notes, “Participatory projects are an
interesting and rewarding endeavor — helping people within a
particular community reshape their visual environment. People create
individual ceramic tiles that become part of a large mural. As years
pass, they return to the mural with friends and family. It becomes a
marker in time for them, when they worked together with others in
their community to create something larger than they could have done
on their own. Art in this context helps strengthen communities, an
ancient role of art that is often lost in our modern world.” |
