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Carlsbad Arts Commission reviews three artist concepts for Veterans Memorial Park; artist to return with refined recommendation
Summary
Artist Gordon Huether presented three conceptual public-art designs for the upper terrace of Veterans Memorial Park — an arch, a ring and six spires — and commissioners and public commenters gave feedback. Staff said a recommendation will be refined using public input and returned to the commission in August.
Gordon Huether, the selected artist for the Veterans Memorial Park public-art project, presented three schematic concepts for a site on the park’s upper terrace — an arch, a ring and a set of six spires — and answered questions from commissioners, a public commenter and city staff at the Carlsbad Arts Commission meeting on May 1.
Huether, an artist based in Napa, California, told the commission he approaches projects by “ferreting out the story” and said his work for the site is intended to “honor our veterans for their sacrifice and pursuit of hope and happiness.” He described the three concepts as schematic only and said dimensions and fabrication details will be refined after a single concept is selected: the arch (approximately 14 feet tall and 40 feet long), the ring (about 16 feet high by 20 feet wide and 12 feet deep) and the spires (six vertical elements about 30 feet high with dichroic laminated safety glass panels).
The artist emphasized the concepts are “just schematic right now,” and that engineering, site preparation and cost details would be developed after…
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