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Public Art Pieces
Lowell National Historic Park Gateway • Mack Plaza and Surrounding Areas • French Street
Lucy Larcom Park • Riverwalk • Mobile Art
Lowell National Historic Park Gateway
| Smokestack and Atrium Projection (with all partners) | Particle/Wave Series |
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Particle/Wave is an ongoing series of electric light works. This title originates from the necessity scientifically to describe light in terms of being both a particle and a wave. Inspiration for these works comes from observing the world and its wide spectrum of physical forces and laws. In this series I am casting my eyes inward towards the basic and magical truths central to everyday movements and structures. The artworks are light and ghostly in appearance because I am interested in rendering something close to an idea, a single part of something bigger; just an ingredient, not a whole cake.
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| ARTventure Signage Piece (recycled Curling world sculpture) | The Water Dragon |
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Artists: Jerry Beck, Bob Pittman
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The dragon is a symbol of strength in many cultures, and our representation is a culmination of many myths and beliefs. This sculpture represents the powerful waterways of Lowell. The rivers, canals and brooks that carry the bounty of life, harnessed for power, fished for food, can turn from calming, quiet bodies of water into a roaring beast tearing at the ground. The balance turns without adhering to the human schedule, nature guiding the majestic beast. We marvel at it's power, and are drawn to it's shores. |
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Mack Plaza and Surrounding Areas
| Revolutionary Wheel of Change: A celebration of Lowell’s past, present, and future |
The Carnival Nest |
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This twenty foot high interactive public artwork is inspired by the invention and symbolism of the "wheel," the most important mechanical invention in history. Nearly every machine built since the Industrial Revolution involves the wheel such as carnival rides, spools, clocks, automobiles, jet engines, computer disk drives). In its simplicity, the wheel moves us towards something magical that can move us to think, dream, hope, and imagine. Additional support: Brent Esperanza, Eric Faulkner, Eric Pestana, Scott Pittman
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This collaborative public art installation is nestled along side one of the trees near Market Street. The pod-like shape is made from natural materials using recycled handmade paper, recycled driftwood from the Merrimack and sticks from the New Hampshire woods. The natural form includes a secluded resting place within the structure where participants can stop to contemplate. Special thanks to Michele Gagnon and UMass Lowell students: Lynne Barker, Rob Carlson, Missy Farmer, and Lexy Gist.
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| "Industry" | "Flight" |
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Artist: Nadya Volicer Description: wooden cube with cut-out bird attachments Location: Mack Plaza and or Lucy Larcom Park |
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Artist: William Turville Description: Mixed media sculpture Location: Nearby Trolley Museum and Flag pole area
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| "Techno Signs" | Lucky Rabbit's Foot |
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Artist: Rob Duarte Opening Event: May 12, 7-11pm
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Artist: Jack Welch Description: Mixed Media Location: Mack Plaza, intersection of Shattuck and Market Streets |
| "On The Road / On The Road" |
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Four-headed Cambodian Goddess |
Carnival Sideshow Banners |
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The "Four Faces" public art sculpture represents every person, every generation, and every age from birth till the last second before the death, we are living in one society which has its own cultures and customs. People have different ideas, however we all appreciate art because the arts make love exist in all people's hearts. Art makes people understand the beautiful stories which had happened in the past. Art develops people ideas especially when it shows the real identity of each person. "Four Faces" is based on the Khmer traditional art forms but involved many people of different backgrounds, languages, and cultures. The creative process involved brainstorming opinions, learning together and collaborating until this piece was successfully done. This project received national recognition and was a recipient of the "Coming Up Taller" award, an initiative of the President's Committee on the Arts and Humanities.
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The Revolving Museum is inspired and influenced by the history and ceremony of carnivals, mud shows, the circus, and festival traditions. The carnival was first developed during medieval times. The people then lived their life filled with fear, humiliation, and submission to those in power. Not unlike today's world. The carnival was created to rebel against this situation and hierarchy and a vast amount of artistic expression and cathartic activities began a people's revolution of sorts throughout European culture. The world of carnival had its own rules, games, sensibility, and imagery. It valued laughter over seriousness. Soon, fools, clowns, madmen and women, dwarfs, and even the blind men became objects of fascination and mirth. So, it is this concept, one that embraces the statement "a picture is worth a thousand words", that Side-Show Carnival Banners offers you, the public, a new perspective about the personal, social, cultural, environmental, and the political of today.
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Artist: John Taylor Description: Billboard installation Location: Attached to Skywalk near French Street, Lucy Larcom Park
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Revolving Museum Mill Girl Dresses |
Giant Mill Girl Dress |
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These mill girl dresses are a public artwork honoring the heroic past of mill girls, feminism, and more personal and metaphoric responses about woman. Like the famous Lowell mill girls Mary Wollstonecraft and Lucy Larcom, many women today are concerned with cultural, political and economic practices and inequalities that discriminate against them. Modern feminist political activists (both men and women) commonly campaign for women's human right to bodily integrity and autonomy on matters such as reproductive rights, including reproduction rights, and quality prenatal care; for protection from domestic violence; against sexual harassment and rape; for workplace rights, including maternity leave and equal pay; and against other forms of discrimination. Many feminists regard feminism as a grass-roots movement that seeks to cross boundaries based on social class, race , culture, religion, and sexual orientation. Feminism also explores subjects including patriarchy, stereotyping, sexual objectification and oppression. Special Thanks: Steve Katz and Unwrapped Incorporated that donated the mill girl dress forms.
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Higher Goals Carnival Game |
Green Chemistry Game |
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Lowell High students worked with Jerry Beck and their teacher, Betty Santagati, to decorate this birthday cake-like public artwork celebrating Lowell High School's 175th birthday. Each student designed an individual "slice" of the cake, interpreting the theme "higher goals". Students then collaborated to create a unified composition by combining their individual designs. The individual "slices" work as a whole composition and challenge the viewer to contemplate "big ideas" of importance to young people like honesty, peace, racism, war, diversity, happiness, anger, etc. The Merrimack River and the canal system are also included in the composition, as they are an integral part of school history. A canal literally runs through the school and the river represents the birth of the Industrial Revolution which, ultimately, led to the establishment of Lowell High School. Special Thanks: Jon Hondorp, Bob Pittman, T Stover and Luis Gutierrez
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Green Chemistry is the design of products using non-toxic, non-polluting techniques to make safe, non-toxic products. As green chemists, we invent new products and re-invent existing wasteful and polluting products. Green chemistry is based on twelve principles that guide chemists as to how to create safer, non-toxic products. These twelve principles are used as guidelines for chemists and they are very important in the development of green chemistry products. This interactive sculpture attempts to bring these concepts to life. The mission of the Boy Scouts of America is to prepare young people to make ethical and moral choices over their lifetimes by instilling in them the values of the Scout Oath and Law. There are 75 Boy Scout and Cub Scout Troops and Packs in Greater Lowell, with almost 2500 youth participating in the program. The Packs and Troops were challenged to come up with a project in which they could collaborate together on, and the "Green Chemistry: Save the Earth," public art project is the result. Special thanks to: St. Anne's Episcopal Church for their continued support of Scouting, and of this sculpture project, Ron Howell, Dave Mullane, Bill Meisner and Tony Fiore for their indefatigable efforts in the construction of the Project. Additional thanks to Nora Fiore, Christopher Howell, Kevin Bush, Nick Fiore, Kyle Meisner, Erik Mullane, Phil Roberge, Martin Duffy, Kathleen Duffy, Thomas Warner, T Stover, Raksmey Derival, and Emily Stoler. Additional help from Pack 3-Lowell, Pack 6-Lowell, Pack 10-Lowell, Pack 77-Chelmsford, Pack 170-Chelmsford, Pack 80-Dracut, Pack 48-Tewksbury, Pack 95-Westford, Pack 136-Wilmington, Troop 3-Lowell, Troop 6-Lowell, Troop 7-Lowell, Troop 23-Lowell, Troop 26-Lowell, Troop 55-Billerica, Shawsheen Tech Billerica, Troop 77-Chelmsford, Troop 212-Chelmsford, Troop 80-Dracut, Troop 95-Westford, Troop 159-Westford, Troop 195-Westford.
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Poetry Scroll Boxes (CTI) |
Black Mountain - Filling the Empty |
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Local writers and youth contributed their poems in these twenty Spool Scroll Boxes that honor the City of Lowell's textile history and Lowell native Jack Kerouac. Kerouac's masterpiece, the "On the Road" scroll, will be exhibited at the Lowell National Historical Park's Boott Cotton Mills Museum this summer. Using textile spools to turn the scrolls, this artwork makes a poetic connection between the role Lowell played in this country's industrial revolution and the important literary contributions of Jack Kerouac. Jack Kerouac wrote his first draft of On the Road over a three week period in April of 1951. He taped sheets of teletype paper together so they would run continuously through his manual typewriter, enabling him to keep his flow of writing uninterrupted. The result was a 120-foot "scroll" manuscript. Sponsored in part by Community Teamwork Incorporated and the Cultural Organization of Lowell. Scroll boxes fabricated by Bob Pittman.
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Artists: Stephanie Nichols with youth from the Cancer Center at Lowell General Hospital Description: Ceramic, steel wire, steel cable Location: Over Canal, Lucy Larcom Park Often times it's what we can't hold touch or see that we revere the most. Whether it's a childhood memory, absence of a loved one or even a space, they are without mass, shape or form. Along with an extraordinary group of youth from the Cancer Center at Lowell General Hospital, we tried to describe this experience. Our goal was to create the positive arch underneath a bridge, to merge the obvious with the latent. In doing so, this public artwork makes the absent present, the immaterial - material, thus bearing witness to the profound impact the intangible has on our daily lives. Special thanks: Lowell General Hospital Cancer Center, Cammie Caron, and all the participants in the program. |
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Tree Installation |
Tomatoes |
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Artists: Pam Goncalves, Jim Coates, UMASS Art Department Opening Event: June 9, 8pm-12am
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Artist: Leah Gauthier Description: Heirloom tomatoes, mixed media and performance, Size variable Location: Next to Lowell High School, Lucy Larcom Park
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| "Art Ship Enterprise" |
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