LYNX Blue Line Art Brochure
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Scaleybark Tyvola Archdale Arrowood I-485/South Blvd Woodlawn Sharon Rd West SCALEYBARK STATION TYVOLA STATION ARROWOOD STATION I-485/SOUTH BLVD ART-IN-TRANSIT ADVISORY COMMITTEE Thomas Sayre Dennis Oppenheim Alice Adams STATION Becky Hannum, Charlotte, NC – Chair Nancy Blum David Walters, Charlotte, NC – Chair Molded in Carolina clay, An inverted pyramid, staircase, wheel, Small details, a sidewalk Craig Crawford, Columbia, SC* six 18-foot disks and the wall, and window corridor make up stamp based on the samaras, Each drinking fountain Michael Godfrey, Charlotte, NC surrounding landscape Reconstructed Dwelling, balanced below or maple seed; a grass border basin features the Vikkii B. Graham, Charlotte, NC honor Scaleybark’s the platform on a painted fl oor plan of a stamped into sidewalks, two dogwood, North Carolina’s Harriett Green, Columbia, SC agricultural past. neighborhood home. shaped concrete benches, state fl ower. Dian Magie, Hendersonville, NC* scored concrete at bus bays Ted Monnich, Columbia, SC Alice Adams Skyrocket Oak, 4 Low reliefs, low walls Alice Adams Celtic Calendar, and a few specialty landscapes exist to be discovered throughout Alice Adams Skyrocket Oak, 4 Low reliefs, low walls Jeffrey York, Raleigh, NC Shaun Cassidy Sweetgum, 4 Leaves, track fencing Landscape the corridor. Leticia Huerta Games, Pavers, mosaics, windscreens *Retired member Leticia Huerta Mexican Bingo, Pavers, mosaics, windscreens Nancy Blum Dogwood, 2 Basins, drinking fountain Marek Ranis Enhancement, bridges and walls Leticia Huerta Textiles, Pavers and mosaics Nancy Blum Dogwood, 2 Basins, drinking fountain ARTISTS’ SELECTION PANEL Marek Ranis Enhancement, bridges and walls Hoss Haley River Rock, bench Mary Douglas, Statesville, NC Leticia Huerta Catawba Pottery, Pavers, mosaics, windscreens Michael Godfrey, Charlotte, NC WOODLAWN STATION Marek Ranis Enhancement, bridges and walls LIGHT RAIL VEHICLES Ron Platt, Asheville, NC Marek Ranis Shaun Cassidy Ce Scott, Charlotte, NC Tom Stanley, Rock Hill, SC Lead artist Marek Ranis ARCHDALE STATION SHARON ROAD WEST The 16 light rail vehicles include a unique seating fabric and ceiling art chose standard formliners Richard C. Elliott STATION that continues the corridor thematic focus on Charlotte’s tree canopy and STAFF and color to add interest, Marek Ranis the changing seasons. Pallas C. Lombardi – Program Manager texture and depth to An abstract confi guration of acrylic Lyndsay A. Richter – Program Administrator the corridor bridges refl ectors, Tower of Light, beckons The artist deviates at one of and walls. riders to the station elevator. six stations by using a tree bark texture and brown color Alice Adams Skyrocket Oak, 4 Low reliefs, low walls Alice Adams Planter beside a pale green and Samaras Stamp, Sidewalk Bench, leafy texture to enhance the retainingii walls. ll Orchard, Landscape Ground level Nancy Blum Dogwood, 2 Basins, drinking fountain Nancy Blum Dogwood, Alice Adams Skyrocket Oak, 4 Low reliefs, low walls Shaun Cassidy White Oak, 4 Leaves, track fencing 2 Basins, Samaras Stamp, Sidewalk Hoss Haley River Rock, bench drinking fountain, ground level Butterfl y Circle, Landscape Leticia Huerta Leaves, Pavers, mosaics, windscreens Leticia Huerta Gingham, Pavers, mosaics, windscreens Nancy Blum Dogwood, 2 Basins, drinking fountain Marek Ranis Enhancement, bridges and walls Leticia Huerta Welcome, Pavers, mosaics, windscreens artin 704-336-RIDE www.ridetransit.org transit Charlotte Area Transit System’s LYNX Blue Line provides a quality 7th St 3rd St/Convention Center Stonewall Carson Blvd East/West New Bern transportation alternative to our community. By committing one percent Charlotte Transportation Center/Arena Bland of the design and construction budget to its Art-in-Transit program, 7TH STREET STATION 3RD STREET STATION CARSON STATION EAST/WEST BOULEVARD STATIONON CATS builds visual public spaces that enhance the transit customer’s Shaun Cassidy Jody Pinto Leticia Huerta Thomas Thoune Gingko leaves interrupt the fencing Translucent green and berry Huerta’s paving, shelter Plates, vases, glass, and cracked between the train tracks, appear fi berglass canopies and benches column cladding and or broken ceramics collected experience. Thirteen artists, commissioned to incorporate art into the on the windscreens and in mosaic add color to the station platform windscreen art for this from the community by the artist on canopy columns. The veins of and contrast with the dark and light and the next 10 stations is were recycled into art. Using the fence leaves are neighborhood platform pavers. derived from local history, machine cog shapes for each LYNX Blue Line, interacted with communities, neighbors, planners, street maps; the dot indicates the stationation location.location architecture, industry and vignette, the 360’ wall captures Alice Adams Gingko, 3 Low reliefs, low walls demography. 18th century life in the South End. One cog includesdes Alice Adams Gingko, 2 Low reliefs, low walls Nancy Blum Dogwood, 2 Basins, drinking fountain gold mining inspired her gold nuggets; Carson Boulevard was named after an illustrated plate of a woman receivingeiving Nancy Blum Dogwood, 2 Basins, drinking fountain Shaun Cassidy Dogwood, 4 Leaves, track fencing one of the miners. an award for her extraordinary garden from the owner of the Atherton Mill architects, engineers, and numerous project contributors to create a Hoss Haley River Rock, Bench opened in 1893. Another includes a 19th-century male pant sewing Alice Adams Hornbeam, 4 Low reliefs, low walls pattern, symbolizing entrepreneur Edward Dilworth Latta’s haberdashery Nancy Blum Dogwood, 2 Basins, drinking fountain originally located in the former Lance Building. light rail system unique to Charlotte’s south corridor. STONEWALL STATION Shaun Cassidy Magnolia, 4 Leaves, track fencing CHARLOTTE TRANSPORTATION CENTER/ Alice Adams Alice Adams Hornbeam, 3 Low reliefs, low walls ARENA STATION Nancy Blum Dogwood, 2 Basins, drinking fountain Andrew Leicester Lead artist Alice Adams sparked Shaun Cassidy Beech, 4 Leaves, track fencing a thematic approach to corridor Leticia Huerta Cotton Plant, Pavers, mosaics, windscreens Six brick-clad bridge columns mimic the Arena art by focusing her art on BLAND STREET STATION bobbins and continue the artist’s focus on Charlotte’s prolifi c tree canopy. Yuriko Yamaguchi Using this self-guiding brochure, CATS invites you to discover, contemplate Carolina’s past textile industry. By switching Forty-seven low cheekwalls colors, the Zig Zag Reversed Twill Weave along the line incorporate low Dream Keepers are paving pattern connects the outdoor platform reliefs of the leaves of Gingko, Hornbeamrnbeam and Skyrocket Oak treestrees. bronze sculptures of NEW BERN STATION and connect with the LYNX Blue Line public art at the 15 stations along and interior Transportation Center. somewhat familiar objects Hoss Haley Shaun Cassidy Maple, 4 Leaves, track fencing in an unusual place, Alice Adams Gingko, Low relief, Leticia Huerta Leaves, Mosaics and windscreens prompting touch and one’s Aptly titled River Rock, low wall imagination. Haley’s concrete and the line. This guide highlights each transit station and the contributions Nancy Blum Dogwood, 2 Basins, steel art replaces a standard bench. drinking fountain Alice Adams Hornbeam, 4 Low reliefs, low walls Shaun Cassidy Cottonwood, 4 Leaves, track fencing Nancy Blum Dogwood, 2 Basins, drinking fountain Alice Adams Hornbeam, 4 Low reliefs, low walls by multiple artists. Shaun Cassidy Pin Oak, 4 Leaves, track fencing Nancy Blum Dogwood, 2 Basins, drinking fountain Hoss Haley River Rock, Bench Shaun Cassidy Willow Oak, 4 Leaves, track fencing Leticia Huerta Rose, Pavers, mosaics, windscreens Leticia Huerta Regrowth, Pavers, mosaics, windscreens.