Lipe Cross-Arc

Collaborators

• Stewards of Lipe Art Park
  
• Gear Factory
  
• Zeke Leonard

This landscape sculpture was created to provide Crossfit workout infrastructure that resonated with the art park’s post-industrial setting. The design delineates a multi-use space with raw steel trusses and timber-board towers. Crossfit elements include pull-up bars, medicine ball toss walls, monkey bars, and jump-up benches.

Billy Taylor Park Pedestrian Overpass

The Billy Taylor Park pedestrian overpass was designed through engagement with youth and stakeholders in the Mount Hope neighborhood. Community members asked for the artwork to welcome people, so large-scale lettering was designed to create a gateway for people entering into the neighborhood.

During the engagement sessions, participants also conceptualized artwork that extended the natural elements of the park across the bridge. In this spirit, large flowers span the opposite face of the overpass. In honor of the park’s namesake, Billy Taylor, the Black-eyed Susans symbolize justice, encouragement and motivation, and the violets represent the school children that chose it to be the RI state flower.

Overhead medallions decorate the pedestrian entrances to the bridge. These directional markers support neighborhood connectivity and place identity.

Hand

The hopeful open-hand welcomes people to downtown Syracuse. The Hand was designed as a kit-of-parts, assembled with volunteer and audience participation during the city’s Arts & Crafts Festival. Most of the materials were salvaged, including pre-mixed concrete waste from a large construction project nearby.