Art

The Art in Public Places Committee worked with Lucas County Commissioners, The Collaborative Architects and other stakeholders to commission artwork for the newly renovated Glass City Center. Chaired by founding Art in Public Places member, Susan Reams, this committee has commissioned seven projects in and around the building including the new plaza on Summit Street. A design review board, consisting of members of The Arts Commission, the Lucas County Commissioner’s Office, and additional stakeholders, reviewed proposals submitted by artists who responded last year to a request for qualifications to design public art installations for this project.
Blue Lupine

Blue Lupine

“Blue Lupine” has been fabricated with four 32-foot-high curving blue steel poles, referencing flower stems, each with an array of waterjet cut aluminum “petals” suspended from a pattern of stem/arms. A series of shiny green orbs
are held between each pair of petals. The four poles arch inward, creating a gazebo-like form and space. The shapes and colors will enliven the site during the day and, with lights, welcome exploration in the evening, supporting the
community, visitors and businesses year-round.
Blue Lupine

Blue Lupine

Ladder of Light

Ladder of Light

The installation, Ladder of Light, provides an opportunity to explore the inherent corporeal quality of the Glass City Center stairwell. The stairwell is transformed from a transitory, utilitarian space to a spatial event unfolding over time.

All four sides of each of the three 45 ft high stairwell columns are wrapped with horizontal light elements nine inches apart. A total of 700 light elements illuminate the columns as well as radiate their light into the stairwell and onto Monroe Street. Each of the light elements is independently programmable which allows for sheer unlimited light sequences.

The light sequences range from subtle color changes adding a shimmering glow to the columns to slowly changing wave movements undulating up and down the columns. Several distinct light sequences are programmed and play randomly. This scheme guarantees an everchanging visual spectacle to surprise Glass City Center visitors and passerby on Monroe Street.
Ladder of Light

Ladder of Light

Ladder of Light

Ladder of Light

Lucid Glass City

Lucid Glass City

LUCID GLASS CITY is a piece of public art that consists of a backlit 3D image of clouds behind a mirrored glass surface. The artwork will be installed on or within a wall of the Monroe Street Concourse. LUCID functions as an ambient light source, mirror and innovative art installation simultaneously. The piece will place a three dimensional image of billowing clouds and radiating sun rays inside a monumental glass mirror. Viewers can ‘touch’ the illusionary clouds with their reflected image.

LUCID is a new technique invented by Adam Frank. It
places a luminous 3D image inside the perceived space of
a mirror. LUCID features a truly innovative and spectacular use of a unique type of glass manufactured by NSG Pilkington. LUCID mirrors the function of the new Glass City Center by directly promoting business growth and local manufacturing.
Collective Cartography

Collective Cartography

Collective Cartography is a collaborative reflection of natural spaces throughout Lucas County, between the local community and artist Cable Griffith. Contributors were invited to submit their own photographs of Middlegrounds, Swan Creek, Oak Openings, Manhattan Marsh, Wildwood, and Howard Marsh Metroparks, documenting their personal explorations through these spaces. Griffith gathered over 700 photographs from participants and constructed a digital photo collage of each of the six parks, taking various elements from separate submitted photos. Each of the 6 compositions is based on a selection of up between 20 - 30 photos, borrowing a tree from one, a flower from another, a cloud here, and a reflection there. These compositions are then pixelated– blending, averaging and uniting the separate details into a unified mosaic that feels anonymous, yet uniquely specific to the original location. Griffith then ‘fills in the blanks’ with a reductive and repetitive system of glyphs
Collective Cartography

Collective Cartography

Glass City Jazz

Glass City Jazz - A Global Legacy

Created by local artists Yusuf Lateef and Rachel Richardson in collaboration with Oregon-based artists Pete Goldlust, Melanie Germond, and Toledo native glass artist Aaron Paula, this immersive experience pays tribute to Toledo’s legacies of Jazz and Glass. A combination of glass, photographs, memorabilia, painted murals, and portraiture honors the clubs and musicians that make Toledo’s Jazz history internationally renowned. Including Art Tatum and Jon Hendricks, native sons who rose to iconic status, the piece recognizes and remembers local talent who have played on the scene for decades as well as those who are no longer living. The piece combines Jazz and Glass welcoming visitors and local enthusiasts, alike, to celebrate uniquely Toledo culture and its global influence.
Glass City Jazz

Glass City Jazz - A Global Legacy

Paraboloid Ribbon

Paraboloid Ribbon

Mike Stevens and Adam Goldberg are collaborative artists working in a variety of 3D media with a focus in glass. In this piece they utilize shadow, light, and reflection by exploring mathematical forms in nature. This repeated form is a hyperbolic paraboloid. The graceful curves are an illusion made entirely of straight lines. The shadows become as important as the sculpture itself, creating a new work entirely.
Mural on the escalator
Mural on the escalator
Mural by the staircase
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