Research Materials

Research Materials- Final Project

Sculptures (Field Research subjects):

*Artist statements, locations, and materials found on respective municipality’s websites.

· Memorial Bridge (Vietnam), Dedicated May 13, 1992; Located Colorado State University; http://www.waymarking.com/waymarks/WM6W4D_Vietnam_War_Memorial_CSU_Campus_Fort_Collins_CO_USA;

o This piece will help me because it is relevant to sculpture that is public, historically-based, and is on CSU’s campus. I will have ample opportunities to observe it and see how people interact with it.

· Human Spirit, Jack Kreutzer, 1999 Bronze Creekside Park College Avenue & Johnson Drive. Fort Collins, CO.

o This piece will help me because it is a piece dealing with local, recent history in Fort Collins. It is relevant to my inquiry, and can be compared to Raindrops by Mark Leichliter since both are on similar topics, but rendered very differently. It is a very site specific work.

· Tribute, Andrew Dufford, 2007 Memorial garden, police museum, carved stone, stone fountains Police Facility, 2221 South Timberline Rd. Fort Collins, CO.

o This piece is relevant to my inquiry as it deals with public history in a very site-specific way. Dealing with the history of the police in Fort Collins, this piece has multiple locations and spans many different medias to create it. It should be helpful for me to study for how many different components there are.

· Windows Into The Past, Susan Dailey, 2012 Painted Steel Panels Turnberry Road Underpass Turnberry Rd. and Richards Lake Rd. Fort Collins, CO.

o This piece is relevant to my inquiry because it is a site-specific work that relates to the history of Fort Collins. It is made from stone but utilizes very representational qualities.

· Raindrops, Mark Leichliter, 2012 Stainless Steel Sculpture, Flood Marker Spring Creek Trail East of College Avenue. Fort Collins, CO.

o This piece is useful for me to study because it is a site-specific work that deals with local history, and it can be compared to Human Spirit. Both deal with a similar moment in history, but their renderings are very different. Comparing them could be insightful.

· Four Corners Project, Andrew Dufford, 2001 bronze, Mason & Laporte Light Poles. Fort Collins, CO.

o This piece is useful to my research because it takes historically relevant themes to Fort Collins and blends them into the environment in surprising and fun ways. This is a more playful approach to a lot of the pieces I’m examining, and that outlook could be an interesting one to study.

· RingFall, Tim Upham & Todd Kundla, 2017, Timberline and Prospect Silos- Located on the SW corner of the Timberline and Prospect intersection. Fort Collins, CO.

o This is a site-specific and historically relevant piece. It is useful to my investigation because of its scale, employment of symbolism, as well as heavy use of site specificity as it relies on an old grain silo for its structural support.

· Water Crossings, Joe McGrane, 2015, Soldier Creek Floodway (Poudre Trl, w of Shields). Fort Collins, CO.

o This piece is relevant to my inquiry because it is a site-specific and historically relevant piece. It deals with the Poudre River and Fort Collin’s relation to it in the past, present, and future.

· New Town, Lisa Cameron Russell, 2017, Located on the restroom at Avery Park, 1101 Castlerock Dr. Fort Collins, CO.

o This piece is a site-specific and historically relevant piece so it fits my inquiry. Also, its location is quite interesting. Its inbetween the entrance to the men’s and women’s bathrooms at a park, and I want to investigate that chosen location to see if that helps with interaction at all.

· 14th Street Overlay, Wesley Heiss & Marek Walzcak, 2013, Along 14th Street- 12 blocks of 14th street between Market Street and Colfax Avenue in Downtown Denver. Denver, CO.

o This piece a site-specific and historically relevant piece, but it is also deeply interactive as it utilizes viewing lenses that show how old Denver was laid out. It is extremely site specific, and through its interactive qualities, generates a lot of attention from passing members of the public.

· Colorado Panorama: A People’s History, Barbara Jo Revelle, 1991, Colorado Convention Center. Denver CO.

o I want to study this piece because it is a relevant piece of site-specific art, but it is also the only contemporary piece currently up in Denver and Fort Collins that makes a land acknowledgement or recognize Natives. It utilizes photography as well, and I wanted to explore that as sculpture in the public realm as well.

Readings:

· La Feuvre, Lisa. “Public? Sculpture?” Art Monthly, no. 409 (September 2017): 11–15, http://search.ebscohost.com.ezproxy2.library.colostate.edu/login.aspx?direct=true&AuthType=cookie,ip,url,cpid&custid=s4640792&db=aph&AN=125377594&site=ehost-live.

o This article will help me because of the dialogue it creates on public sculpture. In particular, it highlights the 2017 public sculpture exhibition in Munster, Germany and makes a case for why site specificity pushes public sculpture to the next level.

· Duffield, Timothy. "Site Analysis for Public Sculpture." Landscape Architecture 67, no. 3 (1977): 250-52. www.jstor.org/stable/44666491

o This article will help me by going into how to consider a site as both a design tool as well as an informant on content decision making. This journal article will be nice to compare with the Johnson’s on Martin Puryear as it allows me to compare two distinct approaches that have mild overlap in areas.

· Nettleship, Will. "Public Sculpture as a Collaboration with a Community." Leonardo 22, no. 2 (1989): 171-74. doi:10.2307/1575225.

o This article examines 11 public sculptures erected in urban areas. It goes in depth into how the community engaged with the sculpture before its creation as well as after. It also discusses which projects Nettleship found to be the most successful. These aspects of the article will help me conduct and analyze my field research.

· Johnson, Jory. "FORMAL OBJECTS: PUBLIC VISIONS." Landscape Architecture 82, no. 2 (1992): 50-53. www.jstor.org/stable/44667114

o Known for his wood and metal sculpture that blends historical imagery, themes, and myth, this article discusses Martin Puryear’s investigation and execution for a contemporary, site specific work of his. This article will help me by giving me insight into an artist’s process when it comes to dealing with public space as well as how he considered his “making” process.

· Brown, Jefferey. “Philadelphia Public Art Project Ponders the Meaning behind Monuments.” Public Broadcasting Service, October 9, 2017, https://www.pbs.org/newshour/show/philadelphia-public-art-project-ponders-meaning-behind-monuments (accessed October 16, 2019).

o This articles help me by framing issues regarding sculpture and the public as well as shows me a wide variety of artist’s approaches to engaging with the public and history as well.

· Soukup, T., Lamb, B. W., Sevdalis, N. & Green, J. (2017). Undertaking field research (Links to an external site.). Journal of Clinical Urology. 10(1) 58–61.

o This article will help me because of the background that it supplies on field research. It offers a definition as well as a general guide to the practice of field research. I will use it to help me define and give context to the research I am conducting.

· As I conduct further research, I will need to find more specific documentation on history that relates to the sculptures I am conducting field research on. For this, I will turn to Morgan Library databases Academic Search Premier and the AAS Historical Periodical Collections.

Art Media/ Materials:

· Wood and Metal

o I want to use these materials because I believe they are suitable for outdoor art work, they are multi-functional, and they are materials that I am familiar with. I think using these materials is historically relevant as well.