Call to Artists: Coronado Bay Bridge Lighting

The Port of San Diego has issued a call for artists to submit proposals for the Coronado Bridge lighting project. All proposals are due June 6 at 5pm.

Urban Trees 5 Pieces Chosen

As mentioned last week, the PAC voted on this year's Urban Trees. Those pieces are:

Aquatic Man by Ky Baker
Break-Dancers by Michael L. Barrows
Sign Diego by Sara Beam (and four unnamed artists)
Trimming the Tree by Christie Beniston
Geometree by Josh Bowman
School of Blue Bottle-Noses by David Boyer
Seahorse by David "DJ" Brelje
Seahorse by Chris Brown
Prelude by Jennifer Cannon
A Tree for All Seasons by Pat Cranor
Fire Blossom Tree by Greg Eng
Tailwalking Suncatcher by Stephen Fairfield
(Untitled) by Ted Sitting Crow Garner
2+2 Makes 3 by Mitchell Gaul
Pinion by Jon Koehler
Imagine by Kent Kraber
Californiascope by Vicki Leon (and two unnamed artists)
A Day in the Life by Meilisa Lim
Air Filter by Viviana Lombrozo
Pele, Goddess of Fire by Frank Mando
Tree Pixie by Deana Mando
Birds in a Tree by Mark Meier
Wind and Water - Blessing Tree by Melissa Ralston
Stairway to Heaven by Tom Roberts
My Bike by Steven (Amos) Robinson
Sea and Sky by Ken Smith
Two Tiers: Tiers of Desire, Tiers of Understanding by Lia Strell
HisTree of Surfboards by Mike Thornton
Ramble On by Joey Vaiasuso
Lean on Me by Robert Verhees

Port votes on which of UT4 to buy

Yesterday the Public Art Committee decided how to spend the $40,000 budget they had set aside to purchase some of the Trees from the previous year, as they have done with each UT iteration.

After some debate, the pieces chosen were as follows:
Orange Tree by Guy and Ellen Mayenobe
Hellicoid III by Robert Pietruszewski
San Diego Synergy by Kent Kraber

Jim Trask's Oops...There Goes Another Rubber Tree Plant! was also named as an alternate.

Some of the criteria being considered are how well the pieces are made and of what materials, how difficult it would be to site the work elsewhere in the city (trees purchased from past UT rounds no longer have spaces allotted to them on the waterfront), how accessible the concept of each piece is to the public, and, of course, how much the artists listed each piece for.

Lance Jordan's Aquamarine Dream was also high on the committee members' lists. Director Sass praised the craftsmanship of the work, but the committee decided it would be too difficult to find a suitable site for the work.

Committee votes on Urban Trees 5

At a meeting yesterday, the Public Art Committee chose which submissions to present to the Port board for Urban Trees 5. Out of approximately 130 entries, 30 were chosen, plus four alternates. The list of which artists' pieces were chosen is as of yet unavailable.

Among those entries not chosen were five pieces submitted by an eighth grade class from Warren Walker Middle School in Mission Valley. The project was led by science teacher Hunter Paschkow and Dean Susan Pettigrew.