 This downtown events facility features a natural limestone facade, pine-beam trusses, a galvanized steel roof, and a natural stone mosaic interior floor (the latter also an AIPP commissioned artwork). The artists designed 48 limestone pieces integrated into the facade on either side of the entrance. Hand-carved by Holly Young-Kincannon. Joseph Kincannon, and members of the ARCHAIC studio (now Kincannon Studios), the pieces were based on eight unique geometric designs inspired by organic forms, such as fossils and sea creatures. The piece is named for a member of ARCHAIC, D'Ellis "Jeep" Kincannon, who passed away in 2001. 

Palmer Events Center

For Jeep, With Love

 Art in Public Places commissioned Lars Stanley to help design and create public art as part of the renovation project for Firestation #17. Because of Stanley's experience as a child, losing a house due to fire, he wanted to honor the courage of these men and women. Fire and the Heart, located on front facade and courtyard, incorporates many firefighter images into his design including an abstract figure of a fireman on the front gate and lighting scones that look like helmets. 

Firestation #17  

Fire in the Heart

 Crystalline consists of four polished stainless steel sculptures installed along four blocks of Colorado Street in downtown Austin. The sculptures mirror the surrounding architecture and street life, inviting the interaction of the viewer and enhancing the downtown experience for pedestrians of all ages. 

Eustasio Cepeda Branch Library

Dawn to Dusk

 This work reflects the cultural legacy of the neighborhood and pride of place by referencing the tradition of papel picado, or perforated paper. The panel, constructed in horizontal registers that correspond to the four elements, is illustrated with Texas imagery, such as the hammerhead shark for water; the Chisos Mountains and cacti for earth; monarch butterflies and dragonflies for air; and stars and the vapor trail of the space shuttle for fire. 

Terrazas Branch Library

El futuro is una pagina en blanca. Que escribiras en ella? The Future is blank page.  What will you write on it?

 Austin artist Pio Pulido was commissioned to create concrete sculptural elements to embellish the fa&ccedil;ade of the EMS Station 4 in east Austin. 

EMS Station #4

Dove and the Leaves of Healing

 This is one of a group of photographs of people, animals, and the environment purchased from Texas photographers to thematically reflect the diverse activities of the Health and Human Services Department. Connected is part of a suite of four color photographs by Nan Standish Black that is located in Building C. 

Health and Human Services Betty Dunkerley Campus

Connected

 This piece was donated to the City of Austin in 2005 by the Austin Herb Society. 

Zilker Botanical Gardens

Cattails and Coneflower

 This is one of a group of photographs of people, animals, and the environment purchased from Texas photographers to thematically reflect the diverse activities of the Health and Human Services Department. They are located in two buildings on campus. 

Beach Dogs

 Commissioned for the lobby of a recreation center, this mural symbolizes the dreams and ambitions of the community`s children: careers in sports, music, painting, writing, dance, and education. In the sky are the community`s ancestors, whose legacies are rich in tradition and culture. The baby, at center, represents the rebirth of the community that has come together with all of its talents to give hope, provide security, and create an environment in which every child can become successful. 

Dove Springs Recreation Center

A Dream

 Located at the site of the former Texas School for the Deaf and the current Austin Animal Center, this artwork pays homage to the curvilinear architecture shared by both the old facility and the new construction. Etched granite disks in the colored concrete paving contain imagery telling the history of the site from its geologic origins to recent times. Surrounded by trees, the work is intended to provide shaded seating and a restful setting for past and future stories to unfold. 

Every Place A History

 This piece consists of 96 painted aluminum discs connected with stainless steel split rings. The artist worked with neighborhood residents to create a list of words, phrases, and concepts that defined their idea of community, and these formed the basis for the images on each disc. Functionally, the artwork serves as a screen to block the center's air conditioning equipment; symbolically, the piece creates an identity for the building and its users. 

Northwest Recreation Center

Community Screen: Charms

 Arboreal Passage consists of two archways, three benches and a double-faced sign at the entrance to the Austin Nature and Science Center. The main archway contains six forged steel trees with extensive root systems that wrap onto limestone boulders. Centered among the branches is a forged bronze plaque with an owl face--an homage to the rescued owls that are a prominent feature of the center. Additionally, stylized forged-copper leaves of native tree species "grow" from the branches overhead. 

Austin Nature and Science Center

Arboreal Passage

 This bronze bust of Dr. David Thomas Iglehart (1835-1903), an early Austin resident, was commissioned by Iglehart's widow shortly after his death. It was donated to the City and mounted on a granite watering trough on Speedway Street, near Ney's studio. In the 1970s the trough and bust were relocated to their current location in downtown Austin. The bust was one of the last commissions Ney completed before her death in 1907. The plaster version is in the Ney Museum collection. 

Symphony Square

Dr. David Thomas Iglehart

 This abstract steel sculpture is composed of three interlocking geometric pieces, which suggest an eagle with outstretched wings. The eagle motif carries patriotic connotations relating to America`s bicentennial celebrations. Additionally, the tripod shape references the Apollo Lunar Module Eagle, which successfully landed on the moon in 1969. Eagle II was donated to the City in 1981 by a group of Austin citizens and installed on the plaza of the newly built main library. 

John Henry Faulk Central Library

Eagle II

 Rooted in the American woman`s handcraft tradition of quilt-making, these colorful contemporary mandalas are made by patching together bits and pieces of recycled plastic shopping bags, to reveal the hidden beauty of the overlooked, disposable materials that continually pass through our hands. The series of 41 digital color prints are laminated between two sheets of acrylic plastic and reflect a variety of flowers, prints and patterns.  Sited at a recreation center with an active after-school program, this artwork brightens the space and encourages a spirit of community and renewal. 

Pickfair Community Center

Bounce

 This work was created as part of the East Seventh Street Corridor streetscape, which includes a series of wayfinding obelisks (obeliscos, in Spanish) located at eight intersections. Each of these scrollwork panels celebrates the organic fluidity of line expressed in Mexican tile and metalwork, paying homage to the street`s rich history and land: to the north, residential hills; to the east, fertile valley; to the south, river bottomlands; to the west, the urban core and setting sun. 

East Seventh Street Streetscape

Cardinal Points

 This is one of eight wayfinding obelisks (obeliscos) along East Seventh Street. The imagery on this piece was inspired by stories told to the artist by native east Austin residents. Individual panels are entitled The Light, The Ladder, The Flow of Night Music, and The Rooster Still Sings. For the artist, the intersection of stories and everyday lives symbolizes the true gateway to Austin, where cultures intertwine and the past, present, and future meet. 

East Side Compass

 This is one of a group of photographs of people, animals, and the environment purchased from Texas photographers to thematically reflect the diverse activities of the Health and Human Services Department Backyard Boat is one of a suite of four color photographs by Nan Standish Black that is located in Building C. 

 Backyard Boat is one of a suite of four color photographs, by Nan Standish Black. Austin Art in Public Places Program

Backyard Boat

 Deuce Gates, commissioned for the entrance of the Austin Tennis Center, consists of two steel panels featuring abstracted tennis players. The concept for the gate design involved the integration of human activity with objects utilized in the sport of tennis. Figures simulating game play are inset into a perforated steel sheet. The holes represent tennis balls, the woven wire mesh below represents the net, and the house-shaped gate perimeter represents the tennis community. 

Austin Tennis Center

Deuce Gates

 Ten thousand square feet of glass tiles in shades of blue clad two outer walls of the Austin Convention Center parking garage. This structure also houses a chiller connected to the Austin Energy district cooling system, which air conditions a number of downtown buildings. The tile pattern was designed by Ann Adams, an artist who generally works in fiber, to reflect the cooling function of the building. 

Austin Convention Center Parking Garage

Big Chiller Blues

 Art in Public Places commissioned Elizabeth Busch to create Aurora as permanent public art for the dedication of the Conley-Guerrero Senior Activity Center, the first AIPP project site. Webster's Dictionary defines Aurora as "the rising light of morning; dawn or the day". The artist chose the new day to symbolize the East Austin Senior Activity Center and its "newness": a new building, new friends, new actives, and a new beginning. With all the newness comes the comfort of repetition like the repetition of a sunrise. Busch designed Aurora specifically for the center and its community. Buildings significant to the East Austin Senior community are hand quilted into the sunrise. The Colorado River symbolically connects the large sections of the quilt. Hills beyond the center are made up of fabric contributed by the seniors to become a vital color source for the whole quilt. Underlying the whole piece however, is a grid that indicates a structure in the overall hand quilting. The artist believes that this structure is present in all things, though it is seldom noticed or visible. 

Conley-Guerrero Senior Activity Center

Aurora

 The typewriter key waterfall has a relationship to the location in which it is equal to the diversity of a flowing river of words. The keys represent active/passive energy, translated thoughts, individual accessibility and communication of society. The punch keys are the one part of the machine that the fingertips take active role in translating the intangible mind to a form of communication that can be defined and understood by others. The strike keys are the impact, the movement, and the energy of society flowing. The keys are the documentation of culture, our history and our future. The library houses this flow. 

Twin Oaks Library

Black Well

 This painting depicts the D. E. Crumley Grocery, with its Conoco gas station and collection of colorful junk decorations. It was an Austin landmark from the mid-1960s, when it opened on the newly built IH-35, until 1994, when its owner, D. E. Crumley, retired. The artist painted what he called "its colorful essence" and hoped to capture the many symbolic references that "epitomize the Texas experience." This painting was originally purchased for the City Municipal Building. 

Austin City Hall

Crumley's Market

 Two sculptures, shaped as space cruisers and constructed with photos of Austin`s historic and new cityscapes, hover above the concourse on the mezzanine walls at the Austin-Bergstrom International Airport. One, located on the west side, uses images taken during the daytime, and its mirror to the east uses images taken at night. For each ship, images were transferred onto 126 individually cut and shaped aluminum composite segments and attached to a steel and wood armature. 

Austin-Bergstrom International Airport

Austin Downtown Cruiser (Night)

 This bronze seated, slumping donkey honors the founding of Austin's "rite of spring," the now-famous Eeyore's Birthday Party. The day-long celebration began at this site in 1963, organized by students in the English department at the University of Texas. The sculpture was commissioned and donated by the Eastwoods Neighborhood Association. 

Eastwoods Park

"And He Was Sad"

 "The entrances to the building and specifically the lobby floors are the focus of my art work. I wanted to bring nature into the building and make the building belong to the park. I have selected natural stone as a medium in a limited palette of earthy colors and I have chosen leaves as a design motif - leaves and water. Stone lined ponds with leaves suspended and floating or spinning and whirling. Each area is inset in a colored concrete floor so in each lobby the "pond" is floating within the space. I wanted scale and motion or lack of motion to be part of this work but the recurring theme of circling or cycle also reminds us of the cycles of nature, the seasons and life itself." - Twyla Arthur 

Autumn Ponds

Austin Downtown Cruiser (Day)

 The artwork, Discovery, extends from the main entrance of the library along a path marked by boulders to the back of the building. There it culminates in a standing group of five massive cut stones which rise to 7 feet in height. Attached to selected stones are steel plates cut with images of the landscape and community. According to artist Will Larson, &ldquo;The intention was to lead the viewer on a path of exploration to a point of discovery.&rdquo; He chose to work with limestone because it is indigenous to central Texas and coordinates well with the library building designed by Stanley Architects. 

Daniel E. Ruiz Branch Library

Discovery

 This painting by Austin artist Jimmy Jalapeeno (Albert James Bonar, 1947-2013) is part of his Green Austin Series, which highlights unique natural environments in the Austin area. Barton Springs, the crown jewel of Austin, is a spring-fed natural pool that attracts swimmers year-round. Six other canvases in the Green Austin Series are located at Austin Bergstrom-International Airport. 

Barton Springs

 "The design concept was a collaboration between Julie Lipton, development coordinator for Austin Parks and Recreation and myself. Our main concerns were the population that would be using the park (both age and cultural background) and the site. We wanted something that would be fun and unique to Springdale Park and still look great in the natural landscape of the site. We were very drawn to the organic earthen forms and bold images of the women of several African countries as illustrated in a book called African Canvas. Not only were they intriguing shapes but they were part of the landscape. The neighborhood around Springdale Park is primarily African American. We wanted to reflect this cultural heritage and bridge our design between the African past and Austin today." - Twyla Arthur 

Springdale Park

Celebrating Traditions

 This work is one of a set of prints located in the lobby of the City's Learning and Research Center. Purchased from Austin printmakers in 1997, the collection is intended to represent many different printmaking techniques and local printmaking studios. 

Learning and Research Center

Collector Revisited

 This mural extends along the soffit wall through the adult and children`s reading room in the George Washington Carver Branch Library. It celebrates the strong and creative spirit of African Americans as a cultural river that has endured throughout history. Artist McCoo states it was &ldquo;created to show that we African Americans have always been and will always be connected to our origins creatively.&rdquo; This work was selected for the Americans for the Arts Public Art Network Year in Review, 2005. 

George Washington Carver Branch Library

A River Runs Thru Us

 This life-sized bronze sculpture commemorates Barbara Jordan (1936-1996), professor at the University of Texas LBJ School of Public Affairs and a leader of the Civil Rights movement. She was the first African American elected to the Texas Senate after Reconstruction and the first southern black woman elected to the U.S. Congress. She received the Presidential Medal of Freedom, among numerous other honors. This work was commissioned for the airport`s Barbara Jordan Terminal, named in her honor. 

ground floor of the Barbara Jordan Terminal, near baggage claim

Barbara Jordan, "True Patriot"

 Located at the ground-floor stairway of the Austin Convention Center, this abstraction of the yin yang symbol is composed of two back-lit neon discs. The artist brought together the ethereal (phosphor/argon light) with the corporeal (elemental copper) and sees this duality as a metaphor for many opposing pairs&mdash;high-tech vs. organic, playful vs. serious, sublime vs. instinctual, and shadow vs. light. 

Austin Convention Center

Confabulating Orbits

 In 1842, Texas was an independent nation and Austin was its capitol. Sam Houston, the President of the Republic of Texas, regarded Austin as a vulnerable and unsuitable location for the seat of government and waged an unsuccessful campaign to have it it moved to his namesake city. As a last resort, the President dispatched a delegation of Texas Rangers to Austin to steal the government archives. An innkeeper named Angelina Eberly heard the Rangers loading their wagons in the middle of the night. She rushed to the corner of what is now Sixth and Congress and fired the town cannon, blowing a hole in the Land Office building and rousing the populace. The citizens chased down Houston's men, recovered the archives, and gave them to Mrs. Eberly for safekeeping. This statue honors a bold woman whose vigilance and short temper preserved Austin as the capital of Texas. 

Congress Avenue Streetscape

Angelina Eberly

 This mixed media installation on a glass window that separates the children`s area of the library from a smaller conference room depicts symbols of knowledge and incorporates references to growth and measurement. Next to the window the artists attached a measuring tape where children can measure their height. The title, Fifty-six Inches, refers to the ideal height at which to center a work of art on the wall. 

This mixed media installation on a glass window that separates the children&amp;rsquo;s area of the library from a smaller conference room depicts symbols of knowledge and incorporates references to growth and measurement. Next to the window the artists attached a measuring tape where children can measure their height. The title, Fifty-six Inches, refers to the ideal height at which to center a work of art on the wall.  Austin Art in Public Places Program

Howson Branch Library

Fifty-six inches

 A long-vacant 1960s-era theater was repurposed as a new branch library and the artists were commissioned to create an artwork that would help shrink the high ceiling spaces above the bookshelves. The artists brought air and light into the room with a series of paintings that depicted children watching the sunlit Texas sky punctuated with birds. The bird shapes are echoed in a mobile at the center of the room, which is composed of gently floating, silvery, open books. 

 Martha Peters,  Austin Art in Public Places

Ralph Yarborough Branch Library

Flights of Fancy

<p>The Threshold Project traces the history of the site and its community, commemorating the homes, the churches and the numerous lives that were played out in these building , all of which were relocated in order to accommodate the new facility. Marble thresholds, engraved with the address of each building that was removed, are installed on the site at the precise location where a front door once marked an entrance. As one system is superimposed upon the other, we find threshold markers indoors and out, in parking lots, sidewalks, classrooms and hallways, intersecting with the new system that breaks from the existing city grid. The Threshold Project compares the former urban plan, demarcated by traditional lots set on a rigid grid with this dynamic new architecture. It is set on a solar grid and created by sustainable methods of designing and building that utilize an understanding and sensitivity to local environment and culture.</p><p>The artwork was selected for the Americans for the Arts, Public Art Network, Year in Review in 2002</p>

St. John's Multipurpose Center

The Community Core Sample Project & The Threshold Project

 Crystalline consists of eight polished stainless steel sculptures installed along eight blocks of Colorado Street in downtown Austin. The sculptures mirror the surrounding architecture and street life, inviting the interaction of the viewer and enhancing the downtown experience for pedestrians of all ages. 

Colorado Street Streetscape

Crystalline

 Hand-made shaped ceramic tiles form a colorful snake that coils around a pillar and extends across the top of the Visitor's Center reception desk at the Austin Nature and Science Center. As part of this project, artist Kathleen Ash also took imagery from nature and etched it into the adjacent windows and donation box. 

Austin Nature & Science Center

Big Snake

 This colorful 600-square-foot mosaic filled with trees, flowers, butterflies, owls, and playful silhouettes of park-goers depicts the theme of "A Day in the Park." Neighborhood groups raised money from private and public sources for park improvements, including the mosaic, which decorates the formerly blank wall of the swimming pool`s pump house. The artists held workshops for community members to produce their own special mosaic creations, which are sprinkled throughout the final design. 

Shipe Park

A Day in the Park

 Located at the entrance of the drop-off center of the Hazardous Waste Collection Facility, this monumental sculpture made of trash cans acts as a heroic marker in the landscape. It is patterned in form after the Endless Column, the famous sculpture by the modernist artist Constantin Brancusi. The title refers to the optimistic philosopher in Voltaire`s Candide and underscores the optimism of recycling. 

Household Hazardous Waste Facility

Doctor Pangloss

 This project was commissioned as a community-based tile mural to highlight the colorful history of Deep Eddy Pool, the oldest swimming pool in Texas. Thousands of local teachers, students, non-profits, and volunteers helped to create the mural. The artists used historical photographs and archival materials from the Austin History Center to develop the themes and imagery, including the historic water slide, zip line, and diving horse. The work was funded in part through the Friends of Deep Eddy. 

Deep Eddy Pool

Deep Eddy Mural Project

                                            
                                            
                                            
                                                This video shows Wanda Montamayor's "Deep Eddy Mural Project," which was created as a community art therapy project. Art teachers in the region created ceramic tiles that reflected their city. The documentary was created by Gil Garcia.
                                            
                                        

 The pattern of a fingerprint is shaped by steel planters seeded with indigenous coastal prairie grasses and wildflowers, set in a labyrinthine path and flanked by rolling, bermed turf grass. The artwork reflects the investigative work performed in the forensics lab. Cedar planks for seating are nestled within the planters and around the center, in which sits a copper disc of shallow, slowly circulating water. 

The artwork reflects the investigative work performed in a forensics lab  Austin Art in Public Places Program

Austin Police Department East Substation

Elevated Prairie

 This memorial is dedicated to local artist Tr&eacute; Arenz (1953-2003), who was frequently sighted along the city's trails with her three dogs. The memorial consists of a serpentine seat wall, clad with tiles from her studio and embellished with heart-shaped stones that Arenz collected along her walks. Adjacent is a drinking fountain, for dogs as well as humans, and a utility pole painted with her signature blue and white stripes. This work was donated and created by friends of the artist. 

Ann and Roy Butler Hike and Bike Trail

ARFF! Arenz Memorial

Austin-Bergstrom International Airport 

near parking lot, at entrance to ballfields

Montopolis Sportsplex

Barton Springs Pool

Cesar Chavez Streetscape

EMS Station #14

Zilker Botanical Garden

Health and Human Services Administration 

Hill Elementary School

Sparky Park

North Service Center

Clinton Hunter South Police Substation

hair and hat: concourse level bathrooms; myth medallions: at drinking fountains

Auditorium Shores

Emergency Communications and Transportation Management Center

Sand Beach Park

Artworks are located along the bikeway, starting at the western end at Lake Austin Blvd and Veterans Parkway and extending to the eastern end at E 5th St and Airport Blvd

Lance Armstrong Bikeway

Trail of Tejano Legends

Roy G. Guerrero Colorado River Park

City Hall and Public Plaza

Morris Williams Golf Course

African American Cultural and Heritage Facility

Second Street District

Boggy Creek Greenbelt

University Hill Branch Library

Big Stacy Park

George Washington Carver Museum and Cultural Center

Gaines Creek Park

Metz Pool

Little Stacy Neighborhood Park

Schroeter Park

North Austin Community Recreation Center

Bike path adjacent to Mueller Development bordering I-35 highway

Seaholm EcoDistrict

Waller Creek Boathouse

ground floor interior, windows facing Guadalupe St

John Henry Faulk Library

ZACH Theatre

Austin City Limits Live at the Moody Theater

Public Safety Training Campus

Todd Lane Service Center

Zach Theatre

 Established by ordinance in 1985, the City of Austin Art in Public Places (AIPP) program collaborates with local and nationally renowned artists to incorporate the history, traditions, objects and values of the community into cultural landmarks that have become cornerstones of Austin&rsquo;s identity. The City of Austin was the first municipality in Texas to make a commitment to include works of art in construction projects. By ordinance, 2% of budgets for capitol improvement projects are allocated to commission or purchase art for that site. Austin&rsquo;s Public Art Collection is found at sites such as the airport, convention center, libraries, parks, police stations, recreation centers and streetscapes, enhancing public spaces for all who live, work and visit in the City. 

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This video shows the collaboration with Austin’s Latino immigrant community. Artist Margarita Cabrera invited two artisans from Oaxaca, Mexico, to teach community members the carving and painting tradition of alebrije in a month-long workshop series.

This video shows the collaboration with Austin’s Latino immigrant community. Artists from Oaxaca, Mexico are featured showing how they create their colorful work.

In this video, Reginald Adams discusses his mosaic installation, "Reflections," at the African American Cultural Museum in Austin. 

Cyclical Interplay is a kinetic sculpture by Andrew Bellatti Green and Adam Pyrek at Auditorium Shores. Every day at dusk, after rotating for several minutes, the sculpture’s steel fins come to rest in a vessel-like shape suggesting fullness or emptiness.

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