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Janet Echelman Weaves Complexity into the Urban Fabric

09/12/201708/09/2019Jared GreenLeave a comment

Janet Echelman’s gigantic yet delicate woven art works are evolving. While her earlier work offered warm, enveloping concentric rings of colors enlivened by carefully-orchestrated folds, her newer works, which pair with contemporary works of landscape architecture, introduce bold molecular forms…

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Art, Cities, Landscape Architecture

In a New Pier District, an Arc Bends Towards Justice

07/14/202007/15/2020Jared GreenLeave a comment

Along 2nd Avenue in St. Petersburg, Florida, an old pier launch built on landfill didn’t offer much beyond lots of parking and a long hot walk 3,000 feet out to a restaurant jutting into Tampa Bay. After a $92 million…

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Art, Inclusive Design, Landscape Architecture, Public Spaces

Pulsating Public Art Brings New Life to Dilworth Park

11/14/201808/09/2019Jared GreenLeave a comment

Pulse, a new work by artist Janet Echelman, may be the stickiest public art ever conceived. Sticky is a term used by web developers to explain compelling design elements that bring users back again and again. In the case of…

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Art, Landscape Architecture, Public Spaces

Interview with Public Artist Janet Echelman

10/29/201408/09/2019Jared GreenLeave a comment

Janet Echelman builds living, breathing sculpture environments that respond to the forces of nature — wind, water and light — and become inviting focal points for civic life. She is recipient of the Smithsonian American Ingenuity Award and a Guggenheim…

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Art, Landscape Architecture, Public Spaces

Massive Artwork Floats Above Boston Greenway

08/07/201508/09/2019Jared Green1 Comment

A grand new work of knots and colored rope from artist Janet Echelman floats 350 feet above the Rose Fitzgerald Kennedy Greenway in downtown Boston. Commissioned by the Greenway Conservancy, the piece’s name — “As If It Were Already Here”…

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Art, Landscape Architecture

Public Art Goes Interactive with “Unnumbered Sparks”

03/24/201408/09/2019Jared GreenLeave a comment

The one-of-a-kind Janet Echelman, who creates monumental net sculptures all over the world, just unfurled Skies Painted with Unnumbered Sparks, her largest piece yet for the 30th TED conference in Vancouver. With data artist Aaron Koblin at Google’s Creative Labs,…

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Art, Public Spaces

Why Public Art Is Important

10/15/201208/08/2019Jared Green8 Comments

Susan Weiler, FASLA, OLIN, successfully made the case that “public art is important,” at a session on art and landscape architecture at the 2012 ASLA Annual Meeting. In a review that ran from the early history of American public art,…

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