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Dean Ruck. The
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Sesquicentennial Park
| Client: |
Central Houston Civic Improvement |
| Artists: |
Mel
Chin,
Dean Ruck |
| Architect |
Team HOU; Ray & Hollington Architects |
| Civic Art & Design services: |
Scoping; management of artist selection; design and construction management |
| Project Dates: |
1995-1998 |
The first phase of Sesquicentennial Park, on Buffalo Bayou at the edge of
the Downtown Theater District, was completed in 1986. The second, art-containing
phase of the park would come some 12 years later, and was completed
in May, 1998.
Houston native Mel Chin collaborated with 1,050 schoolchildren
born in Texas' sesquicentennial year, incorporating laser-cut stainless
steel renditions of their drawings into Seven Wonders, a set
of seven pillars, illuminated from within.
Dean Ruck, who lives and works in Houston, developed three works
using such elements as motion sensors, ceramic photographic panels,
air compressors and recorded sounds. The pieces, titled The Big Bubble,Site
Seeing and Sounds from the Past, celebrate the common man,
the history of the bayou, and the role it continues to play in the life
of the city.
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Mickey Leland Memorial Park (3701 Cavalcade)
Five artists collaborated on design enhancements and
functional artistic elements for this park, celebrating the life and
legacy of the late Congressman Mickey Leland. The park is located in
the neighborhood where Leland grew up, and sits on the site of Leland’s
first Congressional district office.
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Keep Houston Beautiful Mural Project
| Client: |
CACHH/Keep Houston Beautiful |
| Artists: |
David
Lozano, Beth
Secor, Beverly Hill Smith |
| Civic Art & Design services: |
Scoping, artist selection, advisory assistance |
| Project Dates: |
1998-1999 |
Completed in the summer of 1999, the Keep Houston
Beautiful Mural Project paired artists with students ages 10 to 18 to
collaborate on the design and creation of murals in underserved neighborhoods
around the city. Keep Houston Beautiful and CACHH Civic Art &
Design were partners in the initiation and execution of the project
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Virtual Process
| Client: |
CACHH |
| Civic Art & Design services: |
Program development and execution |
| Project Dates: |
1998-2001 |
Through Fiscal 1999, CACHH worked with a group of 30 artists on a pair
of small design projects, intended to expand the pool of artists qualified
to work on larger-scale civic art projects. Participating artists
competed to design one of two projects—a drinking fountain for Dow
Park, in the Sixth Ward, and a shaded seating structure for the Fifth
Ward’s Lyons Village. This project was funded in part by the Texas
Commission on the Arts.
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