PUBLIC ART > COLLECTION > CURRENT PROJECTS The Office of Cultural Affairs recognizes the capacity for public art to enhance the quality of life in the community and to provide professional opportunities to visual artists, especially local and regional artists. The purpose of the Percent for Art Program is to involve the creative abilities of artists in the design of the City's visual environment and to foster interaction between communities and artists. Paradise Garden Wall Located on the median in front of the Hotel Zaza, the imagery on the ceramic tile wall consists of flowers and plants grown in Texas, many of them native to the state. The ends of the wall have texts that reflect the history of the community including verses from the poet Paul Laurence Dunbar. Artist: Carolyn Brown Artist Bio: Carolyn Brown has been photographing ancient architecture since 1980, when she was commissioned to photograph for two books on ancient Egypt. Throughout her career she has received numerous grants to photograph locations throughout the world. Her Dallas work has been published and exhibited, including her 2004 collaboration with writer Jim Donovan on the book Dallas: Where Dreams Come True and more recently in the exhibition The Secret Life of Flowers at Craighead-Green Gallery in 2009. 2332 Leonard Street Dallas,  TX  75201 Council District 14 MAP   Farmers Market Shed No. 2 Peaches The artwork will be located near the west entrance of Shed No. 2. The sculptural seating element will consist of three concrete peaches surrounding an overturned bushel basket that serves as a table. Artist: Art Garcia Artist Bio: Art Garcia is a seasoned artist with twenty years of design and visual communications experience. He has produced work for The Rouse Company, Atmos Energy, Siemens, Verizon, MADD, Harwood International, Southern Methodist University and the City of Dallas. In 1999, Art received the Dallas Ad Leagues Minority in Advertising Award for his outstanding contributions to marketing communications. He has been an active member of AIGA, and has served as a chair on the Board of Directors for the Dallas Advertising League. In 2000 Art founded the Oak Cliff YMCA Wrestling Club, where he helps inner city youth realize their potential in life through the sport of wrestling. 1010 South Pearl Expy Dallas,  TX  75201 Council District 14 MAP   Fair Park Esplanade Sculpture Re-Creation The Fair Park Esplanade, a 700-foot-long reflecting pool capped with three fountains, was built for the 1936 Texas Centennial Exposition and is currently undergoing restoration. Laurence Tenney Stevens created The Contralto and The Tenor sculptures located at the end of the Esplanade fountain. Friends of Fair Park selected David Newton to re-create the sculptures based on his remarkable recreation of the Woofus sculpture, also by Stevens. Youll find the esplanade between Centennial Hall and the Automotive Building, just beyond the parks main entrance off of Parry Avenue. View "History Returns to Fair Park" on NBCDFW.com. Artist: David Newton Artist Bio: David Newton is a gifted Dallas-based sculptor. He earned his MFA from the New York Academy of Art in the Graduate School of Figurative Art, and also completed studies in Florence, Italy, at Studio Art Centers International. His past public art experience includes commissions in Austin, Texas as well as work for the New Ball Park at Arlington, Texas. David has completed several commissions for the City of Dallas including the Freedmans Cemetery Memorial Project. David currently lives in Dallas. 1121 2nd Ave Dallas,  TX  75210 Council District 7 MAP   Main Street Garden Public Art Project Main Street Garden is a multipurpose park which will include illuminated Garden Shelters designed by Leni Schwendinger. The lights on the shelters will change with the season and the colors of the lights were selected from the landscape of the City during corresponding times of the year. Artist: Leni Schwendinger Artist Bio: Leni Schwendinger is a well known light designer and installation artist. She produces lighted sculptural environments for public places throughout the world. These works can be found on architecture, in the landscape, on transportation and transit infrastructures. Her objective for these works is to connect people to their surroundings and make them more aware of each other. Her Light Projects studio has been a hub for multi-disciplinary collaborations for over ten years. Leni continues to redefine the role and scope of light design and art in her work. Interview with SpectraScape, artist Leni Schwendinger Part 1 | Part 2 1902 Main Street Dallas,  TX  75201 Council District 14 MAP   Bishop Arts Public Art Project The artwork will be located in the small seating area where Bishop Street terminates into Davis Street. The sculpture is destined to become a landmark identifying the northern entrance to the district. Two 16-foot sections of the original 1903 streetcar tracks will be integrated into the sculpture. Artist: Art Garcia Artist Bio: Art Garcia is a seasoned artist with twenty years of design and visual communications experience. He has produced work for The Rouse Company, Atmos Energy, Siemens, Verizon, MADD, Harwood International, Southern Methodist University and the City of Dallas. In 1999, Art received the Dallas Ad Leagues Minority in Advertising Award for his outstanding contributions to marketing communications. He has been an active member of AIGA, and has served as a chair on the Board of Directors for the Dallas Advertising League. In 2000 Art founded the Oak Cliff YMCA Wrestling Club, where he helps intercity youth realize their potential in life through the sport of wrestling. 600 N Bishop Avenue Dallas,  TX  75208 Council District 1 MAP   Kidd Springs Recreation Park Public Art Project Kidd Circle is a site-specific, interactive, bronze sculpture composed of nine forms: seven abstract duck forms and two boulder-like forms. The seven ducks symbolize the seven days of the week. Hidden among the seven duck forms are objects that might be seen or found while visiting a park. Artist: Anitra Blayton Artist Bio: Anitra Blayton is recognized for her mixed-media works and installation pieces that often engage the communities in which she works and also often contain elements of social commentary. Her recent work at DFW International Airport titled Standing Ovation, is constructed of cast bronze, acrylic, and terra cotta, and depicts a dense forest of life-sized hands paired in applause, an apt metaphor for greeting or farewell. She received a BFA from Central Michigan University 1975, an MA from Wayne State University 1985, and an MFA from Texas Christian University 1995. Blayton is a faculty member at the Northeast Campus of the Tarrant County College Department of Art History. The artist currently resides in Fort Worth. 711 W Canty Street Dallas,  TX  75208 Council District 1 MAP   Lochwood Library Public Art Project The artwork for the library entrance consists of two hanging sculptures, one located in the entryway and the other along the hallway ending in the eastern end of the building. The entryway sculpture will consist of five intertwined ribbons inscribed with a stanza from William Blakes Songs of Innocence. The ribbon-like sculptures along the hallway will include references to alphabets from an array of languages. Artist: Rex Kare Artist Bio: Rex Kare (b. 1972) was born in Legazpi, Philippines. His work emphasizes figurative and representational elements and he works in a variety of media including oils, tempera, drawing media, sculpture and stained glass. One of Rexs goals as an artist is to depict the experiences of his own life as truthfully as possible and in support of this goal he has completed a formal self-portrait every year since 1995. Rex is an alumnus of the University of Dallas and he attended graduate school at the New York Academy of Art. He currently teaches figure drawing and painting classes at University of Dallas and at Brookhaven College and is an associate instructor at Collin College. 11221 Lochwood Blvd Dallas,  TX  75218 Council District 9 MAP   Lakewood Park The work features a tile mosaic design to be incorporated into the northern section of the pavilion floor and a game table with benches. The mosaic floor design will meander through the north part of the pavilion, recalling the motion and colors of a stream or river with blue mosaic tiles and flagstone. The design will run 50 feet long and 3 feet wide. Artist: Carolann Haggard Artist Bio: Carolann Haggard is a stone sculptor who began sculpting as a teen. She made art and traveled extensively in Europe and Mexico with her family, and later visited Egypt and China. Her travels have inspired her fascination with archeology and the role stone played in antiquity. After finding success as a sculptor in Chicago, she was able to achieve her dream of working in Tuscany near Italys marble mountains. Carolann founded the Sculpture Chicago Program and served the programs Executive Director. She resides in Dallas. 7142 Williamson Road Dallas,  TX  75214 Council Distirict 9 MAP   Sammons Center The Sammons Center public art work will consist of the three cast bronze dancers that will be installed near the entryway of the building. These fanciful figures will welcome visitors to the center. Artist: Eliseo Garcia Artist Bio: Eliseo Garcia is Texas artist who always possessed an innate passion for art. As a child, Eliseo would create objects from various materials, turning them into toys. Creating things was always part of his nature, and it remains so to this day. Eliseo specializes in stand-alone three-dimensional forms accented with a variety of bas-relief applications that he creates using techniques that vary from representational to contemporary. In combining these styles and forms he creates works that are unique in both style and substance. He was recently named 3D artist of 2009 by the Texas Commission for the Arts. 3630 Harry Hines Blvd Dallas,  TX  75219 Council District 2 MAP