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Public Art for Lexington’s Legacy Trail

Todd W. Bressi Stacy Levy

February 23, 2010

Todd Bressi

Reston Public Art Master Plan

Met Branch Trail

Curtain Call

Stacy Levy

Stream Lines

Tide Flowers

Riverine

Cloudstones

Principles

Seek artworks that support the experience and use of the trail

Seek artworks that are commissioned especially for the trail, enhance qualities of the landscape and create unique places

Create opportunies for local, regional, national artists

Create sequential layers of artwork that establish an immediate presence and leave a long-term legacy

Layer One – September, 2010

Goals Timeframe Manifestations

Make the trail into a continuous ribbon of experience by inserting art elements that appear in every segment.

Make trail visible to passersby.

Incorporate narratives of sites along the trail.

Involve local and regional artists, in an evolving and renewable format.

Layer One

To be completed by trail opening, Sept 2010

Layer One

Blazes Pavement Tapis Crossings

Layer One

BlazesVertical path markers make trail visible in the landscape

Located on highly visible knolls, rises, junctions

Clusters of 3-5 poles, 25 feet tall, permanently sited in the ground

Renewable flags designed by artists as cluster units will be created and installed on the poles

Blazes

Neuf couleurs au vent

Public Art for Lexington’s Legacy TrailPublic Art for Lexington’s Legacy Trail

Goals Manifestations Schedule

Pavement TapisElliptical forms on the path surface.

Artists will paint two-dimensional artworks with epoxy acrylic paint manufactured for asphalt.

Placed along the path to respond to local narratives. Sites to be determined.

Some sites are locations for future, permanent three-dimensional or environmenal artworks in a future phase.

Orange Line, LA Metro

Layer Three

Goals Manifestations Schedule

Layer One

CrossingsArtful road crossings in pavement.

Artist-designed Streetprint and Duratherm permanent markings at intersections where trail crosses roads and where trail direction is confusing.

Blazes Insignias Crossings

Artist SelectionOpen roster for all Layer One projects.

Publicize via local, regional, statewide arts organizations

Selection committees identify artists from roster when projects are ready to proceed

Layer Two – Annual, Starting 2011

Annual installations of site-specific, temporary artworks.

Respond to selected landscapes, sites and narratives.

Local, regional, national artists.

Curatorial approach varies from year to year.

Layer Two – Annual, Starting 2011

Annually, starting in 2011, as funding is available.

Site specific, temporary installations

Areas for site-specific, temporary installations

CO2 LED

Riverine

Golden Gateway

Urban Trees

Village of Arts and Humanities

Layer Three — Permanent, Starting 2012

Begin the thoughtful siting of permanent (and larger budget) artworks along the path.

Make places of interest, gathering, rest, and exploration along sites on the path

Create artworks that help interpret narratives that are best expressed in the sites.

Layer Three — Permanent, Starting 2012

Starting in 2012, when visual quality of trail can be understood, when use patterns are known, and as funding becomes available.

Garden Rooms Gathering Places Infrastructure Trailheads

Garden Rooms

Places where art and landscape come together

Pausing places for trail users

Places where narratives can be explored in depth

Garden Rooms

Peace Garden

Private Prairie

Garden Rooms Gathering Places Infrastructure Trailheads

Gathering Places

Pausing places for trail users

Permanent places for people to come together

Story telling, outdoor classrooms

Places where narratives can be explored through materials, color, form

Village of Arts and Humanities

Garden Rooms Pausing Places Infrastructure Trailheads

Infrastructure

Make existing structures trail amenities

Turn ordinary infrastructure into a unique experience

Garden Rooms Infrastructure Pausing Places Trailheads

Trailheads

Site-specific artworks that mark each trailhead

Create a sense of welcome and discovery

Roxy Paine

Todd W. Bressi Stacy Levy

February 23, 2010

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