A Stroke of Genius.Your guide to the art along the Green Line.

The Station Art & Design Program: Where the community is the canvas.

-1- -2- -3- It’s like an art museum on wheels.

The next time you hop on DART Rail, take each station include the platform paving, a close look out the window as the train the column cladding, the landscape design, approaches each station. You’ll witness the canopy structure and the roof color. wonderful works of D’ART throughout From sculptures and gateways to clocks the system! Launched in 1988, DART’s and mobiles, each station applies art award-winning Station Art & Design elements in a unique way appropriate Program makes the community a canvas, to a particular community. showcasing uncommon works of public art. In fact, no other institution in the Greater Form follows function. area offers as much art to the public at no charge. With the completion of the In executing the vision, the primary Green Line, DART has added a new wing concern is the daily operation of the to its ever-growing art collection! station. This means the most important considerations include things like pedestrian The whole is greater than the access, bus boarding, drop off points and, sum of its parts. in some cases, a park and ride component. The goal is to create a station that is as At any rail station, the constituent parts usable as it is attractive. Landscaping of an art project – from the station canopies along the platform, for example, not only and columns to the pavers and enhances the visual aesthetics, it also first landscaping – support the artist’s central and foremost provides shade. From the theme. When you look at a particular windscreens and seating to the planters project, look for the big picture. See the and retaining walls, you can see how vision driving these individual elements, a particular artistic element satisfies a and how it reflects the community. rider’s basic needs. The intrinsic design opportunities at

-3- -4- -5- A blank canvas.

The art and design process does not team reports back with their happen quickly. It is a multi-stage process, recommendations so that the site with adequate time at each stage to layout process can begin. allow for due consideration. First, DART hosts a kickoff meeting for the design Commissioned by the community. team – made up of the station artist or artists, architects, engineers, designers, The artist chosen for each station has contractors and representatives from DART an awesome responsibility. It is a and the community. While the station artist responsibility that Charlotte Lindsey – who has the vision, it takes a team of dedicated along with her husband Larry Enge acted people to execute that vision. After the as the station artists for kickoff, a community orientation meeting and North Carrollton/Frankford Station – is scheduled, then the team makes a site took very seriously. “The community is visit to survey the area. giving you the story, and you have the opportunity to tell that story,” Lindsey says. Subsequently, an artistic values statement is submitted. Then, DART holds its first The artist truly takes the lead on the workshop. This meeting allows the project, acting as a torchbearer for their community to explore the unique history neighbors. The architects, engineers, of their area to see how that might shape designers and contractors bear the the vision for the station. A second burden of carrying out the artist’s workshop follows where the community vision, which ultimately represents zeros in on the chosen vision and how it the community’s vision. is to be executed. Finally, the design

-5- Thinking inside the box.

DART’s Station Art & Design Program skills have to work that much harder applies its out-of-the-box thinking within than your average right-brained artist. specific parameters. It is not enough to just be art; the art has to work. Given the high For the public good. usage of these projects and their constant exposure to the elements, the design team These projects have the chance to seeks durable, low-maintenance materials change not only a station’s appearance, and a cost-effective overall design. The but also a community’s. team has to consider how the station’s on-going use might affect their finished “Public art marks a place as individual product, including its resistance to abuse. and important. It honors the community. It can take something ordinary and The finished design must be compatible make it extraordinary,” Lindsey says, with DART’s overall system, one that adding, “It creates so much excitement enhances the riders’ comfort, safety and in the community, which can be an security, while also enabling efficient aspect of community building. It also movement. The design must also be makes art accessible. You don’t have to reflective of the neighboring community. go into an institution or a gallery if it’s All of these considerations again in the columns and the paving.” demonstrate how the design team’s creative

-6- -7- For the artist’s good.

By creating art that makes the community In a similar vein, Julie Cohn, the feel good about itself, these artists often artist for , says find joy themselves. these projects leave a lasting legacy for generations to come. Baylor Station artist Karen Blessen enjoys seeing her vision at work in daily life. “It is something I am proud to show my 10-year old daughter and know “I love sitting at the coffee shop near the that it will be there when she is old station, watching people and dogs strolling enough to ride DART by herself…it is through the tall grasses in the park, then especially meaningful to me to have walking through the park and enjoying it be in Deep Ellum where I officed the detail and color of the mosaics in the for a decade, witnessing the ongoing sidewalks,” she says. evolution of that neighborhood.”

Philip Lamb, station artist for Bachman Now that you understand how Station, points out that having the DART’s Station Art & Design Program opportunity to work locally is meaningful. works, let’s explore the finished art along the Green Line. “Having a public artwork in any community leaves a legacy of one’s career as an artist, but it is especially significant when the artwork is in the city in which the artist lives.”

-7- -8- -9- Artist: Leticia Huerta Location: Buckner Boulevard and Elam Road

Three unique stations. One evolving story.

The three southern-most stations along of long ago – the hardworking people who the Green Line tell a story of evolution. made the life we enjoy today possible. Viewed as a single entity, these stations show how society has, over time, evolved The fencing also has a riveted look, but from the era of hunter-gatherers, to the the real attractions are the 7’ x 4’ art panels pioneer era, on to the industrial revolution. embedded into the fence. Seventeen The two artists who had the vision for polycarbonate panels, each featuring a these three stations worked together to different fabric design from the 1900s to weave this story of change. the present, offer the viewer a brief history of textile design. The southeast community has a rich heritage, one with a long link to rail. The windscreens depict machine parts, Historically, the railroad promised a new magnified and toned in primary colors. way of life for settlers, an influx of new This splash of color adds a little variety to experiences and ideas. This design echoes the otherwise monochromatic look of the rail’s past – using the brown and gold station. The platform is paved with a mix of colors you might see at an old train stop, light and dark pavers and features a circular combined with the rivets and metalwork motif reminiscent of the artwork from the from the industrial age. industrial era, as well as the wheels of machinery used in manufacturing. The station features sleek steel columns riveted together to echo the look of Despite its historical focus, the station has industrial machinery. Containing seams as if been given a modern feel by artist Leticia assembled with a rivet gun, these columns Huerta. It’s inspired by the past but living in imply the strength of the factory workers the present – a station that urges riders to look back as they move forward. -9- -10- -11- Location: Lake June Road and US Highway 175

The second in this evolutionary series, of an inviting spring from Pemberton’s Lake June Station pays homage to the Farm. Painted in gold, yellow and white, area’s agricultural roots, telling the story the columns also echo the appearance of the pioneers that once called this place of a furrowed field. home. Their lifestyle revolved around a cyclical calendar of planting, harvesting The station landscaping and fencing and preparing for the next season – a life are all in rows, much like crop rows of balance. Artist Viola Delgado captured in a field. this concept beautifully by using a mix of organic shapes, natural materials and The windscreens use sepia-tone vibrant colors. photographs of farming equipment, as well as the words of noted poet Since farming communities grew up Susan Davis. Her poem “Farm Days” around rivers, the artist used the paving beautifully completes the station to symbolize a river. The platform is made concept, telling the story of a Artist: up of blue concrete pavers in a stream-like farming community. Viola Delgado shape. The most noticeable elements of the paving, however, are six medallions, Though pioneers have long left the nine-feet in diameter, made up of mosaic area, this station reminds the community tile. Each of these hand-painted mosaic of its forgotten farming past. medallions represents some aspect of farming culture or pioneer life. The swirling pattern of the columns recalls the image

-11- -12- -13- Artist: Leticia Huerta Location: Lawnview Avenue and Scyene Road

The art for this station recognizes the To honor the hunter-gatherers that once area’s earliest inhabitants, offering riders roamed this land, the paving has the the chance to step back in time. appearance of a dried-up riverbed, with Artist Leticia Huerta’s design pays homage impressions of leaves and animal tracks to the native wildlife – a total of 190 stamped into the bed next to brown different birds, bats, foxes, coyotes and and green pavers. The columns depict other creatures that call the neighboring impressions of berries, nuts, leaves and Great Trinity Forest home. The art also insects – cast into green concrete – again reflects the trees indigenous to the area, in reference to the nearby forest. The including pecan, walnut and maple. fencing also gives homage to the forest, with metal shapes representing the Since the location once served as a junction various wooded creatures. where Native Americans and pioneers traded with travelers, Huerta incorporated When you see Huerta’s vision for the poems and narratives from Native American station, you get a real appreciation for the books into her design. Also, riders should people who were going green before it take note of the storytelling wall that has was even in style: the hunter-gatherers. been erected between this station and Lake June Station. The wall is symbolic of a similar wall that once stood in the same place, which told tales of the Comanche people.

-13- -14- -15- Location: Hatcher Street and Scyene Road

This art project attempts to recover a the students interviewed an elder to find neighborhood’s lost history and tie it to the out what the neighborhood was like when present. Artist Vicki Meek had the vision of the elder was a kid. They then used this a community quilt and carried this vision information to draw a representation of throughout her design. the historical neighborhood. The second part asked the students to think back to The landscaping and paving both use a their earliest memories and similarly draw quilted look, with the latter featuring offset representations of what the neighborhood gray pavers to create the appearance of was like when they were kids. stitching. The crosswalk pavers showcase the names of businesses that once Meek received an overwhelming response thrived in the area, another nod to the from the community and used all of the community’s history. submissions she received! To give each submission its due, Meek took the student Meek took old plats of the area and work and collaged it into an art wall, again Artist: represented them on the square-shaped continuing the idea of a community quilt. Vicki Meek columns. The bottom of the columns uses blue tiles to represent water, a reference See this ambitious project for yourself. to Wahoo Lake, the natural body of water Take a ride to Hatcher Station and that once existed on the land where the witness the true fabric of the South station now sits. Dallas community.

The crown jewel of the station, however, is a student art project. Meek worked with young area art students on a two-part exercise to paint a then-and-now picture of the neighborhood. For the first part,

-15- -16- -17- Artist: Emmanuel Gillespie MLK, Jr. Station Location: J.B. Jackson, Jr. Boulevard and Trunk Avenue

MLK, Jr. Station continues thematically The windscreens feature images from where the adjacent J.B. Jackson, Jr. noted local photographer R.C. Hickman, Transit Center leaves off: telling the story who documented Dallas’ civil rights era. of the community that surrounds it, The photos tell the story of the city’s framed in the context of the larger African American community during African American experience. that turbulent time.

Conceived by artist Emmanuel Gillespie, In a separate piece of commissioned the station extends the “Walk of Respect” art, sculptor Steve Teeters created two from the adjacent transit center, creating a 17-foot African “talking drums,” historically common motif to join the two facilities. used for storytelling and long-distance communication. Just as these drums The paving pattern picks up right where helped to pass ideas from one generation the one from the transit center left off, to the next in African culture, the ideas while the columns are made up of of Martin Luther King, Jr. live on for monochromatic tiles. Symbols from African present and future generations through kuba cloths – a form of textile art, similar this station’s artwork. to tapestries – are used on both the walk and the column cladding to symbolize such concepts as unity, respect, wisdom and understanding.

-17- -18- -19- Location: Parry Avenue and Exposition Avenue

Built for the 1936 Texas Centennial mirror materials used inside the park. In Exposition, the grand exhibit halls and fact, station artists Brad and Diana Goldberg esplanade of Fair Park constitute the only used complimenting colors and materials intact and unaltered pre-1950s world fair throughout the design out of respect for site in the United States. Until 1956, trolleys the surroundings. served the fairgrounds with a stop at the main entrance on Parry Avenue. The Green The floating ceiling is designed to be Line’s Fair Park Station is situated right ethereal and “ghostlike,” thus reminiscient where that original trolley stop was, more of the trolley ticketing area that once stood than a half-century ago. here. At night, artistic lighting elements reflect the historic use of dramatic lighting The station artwork is sensitive to this at Fair Park, and enhance not only the history, departing from DART’s tradition of station, but the entrance as a whole. barrel-vault or gull-wing canopies. Instead, the station features horizontal canopies It is a design that pays respect to the rich Artists: with a crisp, clean look that’s original but history of Fair Park, while building toward Brad and Diana Goldberg in keeping with the art deco aesthetic. a brighter future for the neighborhood.

Other elements contribute to the seamless effect: Fluted limestone columns resonate with the nearby Hall of State, while curvilinear seating echoes the rounded shapes evident throughout Fair Park. The granite benches and paving patterns

-19- -20- -21- Artist: Karen Blessen Baylor University Medical Center Station Location: Hall Street and Junius Street

The concept at Baylor University Medical the original Baylor Hospital columns, Center Station unites the century-old while the surface of the column erodes hospital campus with the equally historical to reveal brick, much like you might Deep Ellum neighborhood. The station is find on the façade of a building in conceived as a vibrant public space and Deep Ellum. includes a two-acre plaza that can be many things to many people – a play area, a This peeling away of the layers shows retreat for hospital visitors and employees the many lives the area has lived. The or a respite for commuters. windscreens pay homage to people who have helped shape each community, The title for artist Karen Blessen’s public art, providing a history of both the hospital On the Pulse, reflects the joining of these and the area. The paving is quite unique, two divergent communities. At Baylor, one containing an imprint of a giant fingerprint, might find a doctor or a pastor – someone with five paths radiating from it. Each of who takes the pulse of the community each these paths represent one of the five senses. and every day. Deep Ellum represents a different kind of pulse, the celebration of By making the connection between the life through art and music. life experiences of Baylor and the life expressions of Deep Ellum, Blessen has The platform area continues this theme. created a station with a pulse all its own. The columns contain a collage of elements reflecting the architecture and character of Deep Ellum and Baylor, including the image of a heart in hands and an EKG. The basic fluted column shape is a reference to

-21- -22- -23- Deep Ellum Station Location: Good-Latimer Expressway and Gaston Avenue

Deep Ellum Station strikes a thematic While Deep Ellum is a forward-looking balance between the neighborhood’s community, it is also an area rich in legendary past and its hopes for the future. history. For decades, motorists entering The artwork on the windscreens is a kind the neighborhood appreciated the artwork of palimpsest – an ancient manuscript that along the famed Good-Latimer tunnel, has been written on, scraped off, and used long a concrete canvas for local muralists. again – creating a layered effect. These When this iconic gateway had to be layers artistically capture the many iterations removed to make way for Deep Ellum of the Deep Ellum neighborhood. Station Station, DART hosted a design competition artist Julie Cohn wanted riders to feel as if to provide the area with a new public they were looking though a tunnel viewing art hallmark. overlaid remnants of the past and present. Dubbed “The Deep Ellum Gateway The windscreens feature old and new Project,” Brandon Oldenburg of Deep imagery from the neighborhood that shifts Ellum’s own Reel FX Creative Studios Artists: depending on the viewing perspective. and Brad Oldham of Dallas-based Brad Julie Cohn, Brandon Oldenburg and Brad Oldham This, again, gives a layered look, while Oldham Inc. won the commission in 2007. also allowing every one who gazes upon The result, a three-part stainless steel them to get a different impression. sculpture series called The Traveling Man, Natural light penetrates the windscreens delivers spectacularly, guiding the eye at twilight, making them glow and giving to Deep Ellum. them an almost magical quality. The columns are designed to oxidize over time, again reflecting the ever-changing nature of the neighborhood. In fact, the whole station is designed with evolution in mind.

-23- -24- -25- Artist: Pamela Nelson Location: 2525 Victory Avenue

A hub of fun and games, this station’s fields and cards – some familiar, some architectural elements harmonize with fanciful – under the canopy area. the arena and the historic West End, now A clearly defined pedestrian plaza an entertainment district. Throughout the directs event-goers to the front doors station, light and movement reflect the of American Airlines Center. dynamics of play, with pavement patterns that evoke balls bouncing wildly in every direction. Pavers in different values of gray create an effect similar to the play of lights. The station features game boards, playing

-25- -26- -27- Market Center Station Location: Harry Hines Boulevard and Vagas Street

Simplicity reigns at Market Center circles, as does a staircase leading to Station, with circular shapes dominating the station platform. The windscreens the landscape. The concept is based on feature a colorful work by Whitehead. a painting by station artist Michael R. Using bright yellows and oranges, the Whitehead entitled “Good Manners When windscreen art brings a smile to riders Addressing Clouds.” The idea is also waiting on the platform. Landscaping inspired by the plastic template tool that also uses circular shapes and arcs of architects, artists and designers use to greenery to continue the circular theme. draw circles. The end result is a thoughtful, From the platform and the columns to contemplative station environment. the paving and the fencing, the station’s clean white and gray color palette reflects simplicity. A concrete retaining wall showcases several different styles of Artist: Michael R. Whitehead

-27- -28- -29- Artist: Susan Kae Grant Southwestern Medical District/Parkland Station Location: North of Medical District Drive, east of Harry Hines Boulevard

Modern miracles happen every day in Two beacons at the ground level, the myriad of medical facilities surrounding housed within stainless steel mesh Southwestern Medical District/Parkland wrapped around an axis, shine on the Station. Inspired by these surroundings, columns. These lights give the station station artist Susan Kae Grant set out to an almost theatrical quality at night. create a soothing station environment. She wanted a restful place where riders With a look that is neither entirely can feel both comfortable and comforted. modern nor entirely historical, Southwestern Medical District/Parkland Cladded in a stainless steel mesh, the Station lives very much in the present. platform columns have a sleek, modern It is a place where riders can relax appearance. Marbles in a variety of sizes while they await a train, a doctor’s and colors circle the base of the columns. appointment or a miracle. In keeping with the look, the platform uses gray and white pavers in a simple checkerboard pattern. For the windscreens, Grant took black-and-white photographs of mannequins. The resulting silhouettes make for an interesting study of the human form.

-29- -30- -31- Inwood/Love Field Station Location: Southwest corner of Inwood Road and Denton Drive

The concept for this station stems from contrasting static and mutable nature of the schools and research centers that the pursuit of knowledge. call this neighborhood home. Using these institutions as inspiration, artist Roberto For the color scheme, Munguia sought Munguia employed the theme “Tree inspiration from the community, borrowing of Knowledge.” from the colors of older neighborhood homes for the earth-toned pavers. To To carry out the concept, a colorful maze symbolize the influence Latinos had on shaped like an abstract brain greets riders at the community, the artist used bright the station entry. Near the maze is a spark, colors on the stairs, columns and canopies. representing the illumination that springs forth from discovery. The maze is intended In summary, Inwood/Love Field Station to be a functional piece, a fun challenge does more than open doors to destinations. for riders waiting for a train. Another, more It opens minds! meditative maze exists in the park area Artist: adjacent to the station. Roberto Munguia

The yellow platform columns also use the spark motif, with a light source behind the image so that the sparks shine a bright red at night. At the platform and concourse levels, abstracted tree trunk and leaf designs extend from the elevators to represent the

-31- -32- -33- Artist: Susan Magilow Burbank Station Location: Just north of Burbank Street, west of Denton Drive

Artist Susan Magilow’s design for this flight from Dallas. The colors used on station celebrates the influence that each windscreen match the color of the nearby Dallas Love Field Airport had on neighboring column. the area. The platform features stainless steel columns with miniature planes laser The platform is done in a herringbone punched into them. The punches depict the pattern of charcoal, pewter and light brown evolution of aircraft from past to present. pavers, again in reference to the close-knit Each of the columns is lined with a different character of the community. The pavers colored acrylic liner to symbolize the area’s gradually move from lightest to darkest diversity. The columns also have been along the platform. backlit with LED lights for a breathtaking nighttime view. This project gives riders an entry point to the best in ground transportation – DART The windscreens use historical photographs Rail – and a nod to one of the metroplex’s in an uncommon way, applying them in a most significant options by air, Dallas Love woven pattern underlay. The artist chose Field Airport. a woven pattern to refer to the character of the neighborhood. It implies that the neighborhood businesses and Dallas Love Field Airport have worked together and existed side by side since 1929, when Delta Air Service operated the first passenger

-33- -34- -35- Location: South of Northwest Hwy. on the west side of Denton Drive

Sited on land purchased in 1901 by is the origin of the concentric rings, making the City of Dallas from Reverend John B. it the core of the station that radiates out Bachman, Bachman Station tells the story to the plaza rings. The pavers feature the of circles and cycles. More than a century freeform pattern of a river. Muted sage ago, the city impounded Bachman Creek green metalwork radiates from the columns to form the lake and create a water supply. to further the tree theme, while platform Since then, the neighborhood has gone fencing features silhouettes of the cattail through many cycles of change, with reeds that once surrounded the lake. businesses coming and going, a public park opening and Dallas Love Field Airport Accordion-shaped windscreens offer a becoming a transportation hub. then-and-now look of the area. A historic photograph depicts a 1911 picnic scene The opening of this rail station marks at the lake; the artist then shot a modern another new cycle for the area, and artist version, matching the composition of Philip Lamb wanted to show how the area the original. The two photographs are Artist: has come full circle and give riders an integrated so that, as you walk along the Philip Lamb appreciation for the area’s history. platform from left to right, you see this transition. It satisfies the artist’s desire to The pedestrian entrance establishes this create an element of surprise for riders. theme with a series of 10 shallow steps, The effect is similar to that of a billboard shaped in sinuous, wavy forms reminiscent with rotating advertisements. Column of tree rings. Each of the steps represents cladding on either side of the windscreens one decade of the lake’s existence, and each features red brick adorned with cast-stone features a band of text about a significant inlays, a reference to the façade of the event during that decade. These steps nearby water treatment facilities. define a 120-foot-wide plaza with pockets of greenery and seating. When you view Lamb’s station design, perhaps you too can see how the area The platform’s concrete surface also has come full circle! features wavy lines to continue the tree ring metaphor. In fact, the center of the platform

-35- -36- -37- Artist: Harold Fooshee Clayton Walnut Hill/Denton Station Location: North of Walnut Hill Lane on the east side of Denton Drive

This station tells the story of how fencing also contains cutouts representative agrarian society evolved and merged of agricultural and industrial life. The with an industrialized society. The area paving pattern is circular with bands of around the station is largely industrial and different colored pavers, including tan, historically had been a farming community. green, red and brown. Like the fencing, Thus this art project is dedicated to the this pattern also is intended to create the hard-working men and women of the feeling of crop rows. past – farmers, carpenters, mechanics, machinists and the like. Clayton’s vision for this station asks the laborers of today – be they accountants, As a nod to these hard laborers, the station lawyers, sales people or the like – columns use Oklahoma fieldstone and to celebrate the contributions of the rough Oklahoma limestone. Station artist “working man.” Harold Fooshee Clayton created beautiful limestone sculptures, again using the agrarian and industrial motif, to act as art pieces within the columns.

The windscreens visually tell the story of man and machine. The station fencing is painted green and uses angled metal to create the appearance of crop rows. The

-37- -38- -39- Royal Lane Station Location: North of Royal Lane on the east side of Denton Drive

Royal Lane Station is located near the terrazzo, symbolizes the growth of life. Asian Trade District, home to 21 shopping The medallion is greenish-blue, and centers and more than 300 specialty shops. these colors represent heaven and hope. Multi-Asian culture has defined the area, The roof color matches the color used with a blend of influences. It is a trading on the medallion. hub unlike any other in DFW. The station columns, some yellow and The station design pays tribute to society’s some red-brown, all have Lotus flowers connection to trade as a cyclical resource, emblazoned on them. The flowers are emphasizing the inter-reliance between made of a buff-colored cast concrete and Asian and American culture as a means symbolize prosperity and fruitfulness. of growth and progress. The station is an example of the interdependence of man, Windscreens showcase colorful artwork trade and transportation. It is also intended by station artists Hyun-Ju Chu and Chong to be a gateway of east to west. Keun Chu. Landscaping at the station is Artists: designed to provide year-round seasonal Hyun-Ju Chu and Chong Keun Chu The paving on the concourse and color variations and visual interest along platform is reddish brown to symbolize pedestrian paths and surrounding the the earth. The concourse also features a circular plaza. long multicolored stripe made up of red, yellow, blue and green tiles, a nod to the Royal Lane Station promises to be a hub area’s Asian heritage. In the center of the of activity and exchange, a true tribute pavement, riders should note the Wan to its surroundings. Ja shaped band, traditionally considered a good luck symbol in Asia. A colorful medallion along the walkway, made of

-39- -40- -41- Artist: Lisa Ehrich Location: Just south of Valley View Lane on the east side of Denton Drive

Artist Lisa Ehrich designed Farmers Branch The paving pattern, also done in earth Station to be an urban landscape that tones, exemplifies an aerial view of honors the history and foundation of the different types of divisional farmland grids community with an eye toward tomorrow. and other developed areas. The paving contains a ribbon of blue terrazzo running The windscreens layer modern photographs through both sides of the station platform, of Farmers Branch over historical ones. representative of a creek. To create a The resulting composites merge the area’s gateway, the design team incorporated past and present, while implying the future. an arbor on the north end of the parking lot where live roses can grow. The base of each station column showcases rose stems cast in stone. The middle portion The station is now in full bloom, so features four colors of earth-toned bricks, be sure to stop and smell the roses in representative of the soil from which roses Farmers Branch! rise. The column caps show roses in full bloom, again cast in stone.

-41- -42- -43- Downtown Carrollton Station Location: Belt Line Road and Broadway Street

This station captures Carrollton’s past, present and future. Powder-coated steel The paving at the edge of the platform columns, each containing a series of is done in a dark brown concrete and windows, line the platform. Historical contains a timeline comparing significant photos have been laser etched into the international events with events that windows, and a light shines from the happened in Carrollton around the bottom to illuminate them. Station artist same time. These events are called out James Michael Starr scoured the station on bronze plates with embossed text. site for artifacts and inserted these inside the windows to create a heroic portrait of The whole idea pays homage to the collage art. area’s settlers, while giving the citizens of today a very usable and The aerial platform is made of green contemporary station to enjoy. concrete and has historical documents sandblasted into it. Riders can read over Artist: the actual text of these archived documents James Michael Starr to catch a glimpse into the area’s past – learning the names of early settlers, words from the town’s charter and other historical facts and figures in the process.

-43- -44- -45- Artists: Charlotte Lindsey and Larry Enge Trinity Mills Station Location: Trinity Mills Road and Broadway Street

To residents of today, Trinity Mills may a contemporary feel. A line of colored tile just sound like the name of a road. In fact, within the column references the color it’s a reference to the grain and gravel changes that occur with the change of industry that grew up around the Elm Fork seasons. The windscreens use images of the Trinity River in Carrollton. of grain and grass, spread over multiple panels, to give the viewer the sense of The art project at Trinity Mills Station points walking through a field. to this history. Artists Charlotte Lindsey and Larry Enge, operating in partnership under The overall intent is to mimic the the moniker Montage 48/61, used a thin appearance of land and water, as viewed ribbon of colored concrete to represent the from 30,000 feet. It’s also to remind us of river and a circular millstone to represent life’s ever-changing cycles, including the the movement of a mill wheel. Located changes that the wheels of light rail transit at the station entry point, the circle also promise to bring! symbolizes the seasonal cycles of farming.

The design team used earth-toned pavers to reflect how agriculture has influenced the area. Natural grasses have been executed in relief on the column cladding to further this point. The columns also feature strips of weathering steel. Intended to oxidize to a certain point and then stop rusting, the stainless steel strips help to give the station

-45- -46- -47- North Carrollton/Frankford Station Location: South of Frankford Road

As the northernmost Green Line The galvanized steel look of the tubes stop, North Carrollton/Frankford Station is repeated in the plaza fence and retaining is intended to be a gateway to the walls. An art wall located along the DART System. wheelchair ramp is also designed as a complementary piece. Made up of colored Artists Charlotte Lindsey and Larry Enge, tiles cut with a water jet, the wall matches again working together as Montage 48/61, the bright look of the way-finder. wanted the station art and design to be unlike any other – a kind of visual surprise. Monochromatic pathways lead the way Inspired by Austrian architect and artist to the platform, with ribbons of colored Friedrich Hundertwasser, the duo designed concrete providing contrast. A mesh-like columns made of brightly colored ceramic black fence along the rail lines contrasts forms, glazed to mimic the appearance of these bright colors, plus native Texas pottery. Stacked in unique ways to add trees and shrubs make this stop along color and variety, these columns set the the Green Line a little bit greener. Artists: tone for the project. Charlotte Lindsey and Larry Enge This playful, one-of-a-kind station is The station’s focal point is a 12-foot tall sure to put a smile on the face of every circular concrete way-finder monument commuter who comes upon it! perched on a five-foot landscaped mound. Designed to visually pull riders across the platform or parking lot – literally helping them “find the way” – this monument is painted in bright colors to elicit joy. With 26 galvanized steel tubes radiating from the center, the way-finder’s vibrant mosaic pattern provides a stark contrast to the station’s industrial surroundings.

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