TriMet: MAX Green Line Public Art Tour
By TriMet
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Podcast Description
Listen to artists describe their public art along TriMet's MAX Green Line in Portland, Oregon, on the renovated Portland Transit Mall and along I-205 from Gateway to Clackamas Town Center. TriMet's Public Art Program promotes transit use and community pride by integrating permanent and temporary art works into the public transit system—celebrating the contributions of public transportation and recognizing the cultural richness in our region.
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Shared Vision, 2009 | Lanterns are popular festival decorations associated with gaiety and rejoicing, and are reminders of the security of a light in the window. By using light as a metaphor for expanded awareness, Suzanne Lee's Shared Vision represents prosperity as the richness of positive social interaction and communication - the very essence of neighborhood. | 3/24/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Lents Hybrids, 2009 | Brian Borrello's Lents Hybrids is a series of spiraling plant forms with 'buds' that generate energy through a hybrid system of wind and solar generators. The pieces are evocative of the native long grasses that may have once grown near the station area, while the buds are symbolic of the unfolding beauty and potential for the Lents neighborhood. | 3/24/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Cairns, 2008 | To create her series of sculptures for the Union Station area, Christine Bourdette was inspired by the man-made stacks of stones that have traditionally served as landmarks for navigation and as memorials. consists of a series of five stacked-slate forms that mark the path to the light rail stations near Glisan at NW 5th and 6th. | 3/24/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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The Legend of the Green Man of Portland, 2009 | With The Legend of the Green Man of Portland, Daniel Duford created a false legend encompassing many of the varied, transitory communities that call have called Old Town and Chinatown home. The piece consists of two sculptures and eight "story markers" over a 10 block area that provide fragments of the story, depending on their routes through the neighborhood. | 3/24/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Burls Will Be Burls, 2009 | Burls Will be Burls, by Bruce Conkle, is a tribute to snowmen and to the forests of the Pacific Northwest. The cast bronze figures of Burls Will be Burls represent what might happen when a snowman melts and nourishes a living tree—water is absorbed by the roots and carries the spirit of the snowman up into the tree where it manifests itself as burls. | 3/24/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Lodge Grass, 2000 | The title of John Buck's Lodge Grass refers to a Montana town originally settled by Native Americans and to the name for a range of plants used by indigenous peoples to make shelters. The artist has used related symbols and imagery for the figure's head and shoulders. | 3/24/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Reading the Street, 2008 | Mark R. Smith's Reading the Street consists of a series of glass panels with images of silhouetted figures arranged in horizontal rows. Through body language and gestures, the images are meant to be read and deciphered like text, as the work addresses the complicated nature of human interaction in crowded urban thoroughfares. | 3/24/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Waving Post, 2009 | The SE Fuller Rd station is located in a section of the Con Battin neighborhood that was isolated from the rest of the neighborhood by the freeway in the late 1970s. Pete Beeman's Waving Post invites viewers to turn the crank, bring the sculpture to life and wave to the neighbors. | 3/24/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Daddy Long Legs, 2006 | In Daddy Long Legs, Mel Katz combines elements of sculpture and painting to create a counterpoint and contrast that add to the complexity of the work. The artist's father was a tailor, and growing up he was influenced by watching him work with templates to cut pattern pieces. | 3/24/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Floribunda, 1998 | Floribunda, one of a series of works Mark Calderon made in the late nineties, was inspired by the hairstyles found in Japanese Buddhist sculpture of the 12th and 13th centuries. Floribunda is the only free-standing work from this series, and the design and pattern of the hairstyle envelops the entire form, creating a finished work that is quite abstract. | 3/24/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Money Tree, 2009 | Valerie Otani created a contemporary Money Tree to symbolize the revitalization of the neighborhood and hope for the prosperity of the new immigrant communities. The overall form evokes the Douglas fir, and each branch takes its design from traditional folk art of cultures living in the neighborhood. | 3/24/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Pile, 2009 | Artist Malia Jensen considers Pile an homage to a tougher, grittier Portland of the past. The crate represents Oregon's tradition of hands-on work and the phonebooks mark affection for the disappearing tactile aspect of information and searching. The urban birds travel between a paved-over city and an airborne wilderness, hinting at what has been lost. | 3/24/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Sky to Earth, 2009 | Sky to Earth, by Carolyn Law, is a vivid sky blue fence that rides the visual edge between the light rail tracks on one side and the expansive topography of the surrounding land along the other side. The artwork's flowing and changing sculptural line shifts between solid and transparent, activating the site and the experience of MAX riders. | 3/24/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Johnson Creek Watershed, 2008 | With Johnson Creek Watershed Map, Brian Borrello reminds riders and neighbors of their regional watershed, one of the major inland watercourses of Portland. The five circular medallions in stainless steel and pigmented cement represent the five tributaries that comprise the surrounding Johnson Creek Watershed. | 3/24/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Whistlestop for an Organ Teacher, 2009 | Chris Bruch designed Whistlestop for an Organ Teacher to be a small island of stillness amidst the urban hubbub and dissonance of the city. Whistlestop refers to an earlier era when politicians campaigned across great distances from trains, while "stop," in organ terminology, means a rank of pipes that all speak with a similar voice. | 3/24/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Portland Mall Segment Overview | An introduction to the MAX Green Line Portland Mall segment art project. | 3/24/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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The Responsibility of Raising a Child, 2004 | Rick Bartow weaves Native American symbols of parenting and life cycles throughout The Responsibility of Raising a Child. The sculpture started out expressing the difficult circumstances of single parents, but by placing the infant in the basket it becomes a hopeful, encouraging and optimistic work. | 3/24/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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I-205 Segment Overview | An introduction to the MAX Green Line I-205 segment art project. | 3/24/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Tall and Fallen, 2009 | The fan-shaped leaf of the ginkgo tree inspired Anne Storrs to create Tall and Fallen. Tall consists of seven abstracted ginkgo leaves cast in concrete and stacked inside four stainless steel poles. Fallen, constructed with the same leaves appearing singly or in pairs, suggests the gingko trees' fallen leaves. | 3/24/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Urban Hydrology, 2009 | With Urban Hydrology, Fernanda D'Agostino reflects some of the environmental science taking place at PSU in an attempt to thread the needle of beauty, abstraction and content while appealing to both academic and casual viewers. Twelve oversized diatoms carved in granite are sited in the biofiltration strips unique to the the southern portion of the Portland Mall. | 3/24/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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City Reflections, 2009 | Patti Warashina's City Reflections is in the heart of Portland, where business, civics and culture come together. The strong female figure has both a classical and minimal form, to which the dog acts as a counterbalance, while the black shapes on the sculptures reference elements of the human body and reflect the shapes and shadows of the surrounding buildings. | 3/24/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Continuation, 2009 | With the five sculptures that make up Continuation, Michihiro Kosuge reused red granite from an earlier sculpture and fountain installation on the Portland Mall. To create relationships between the sculptures while allowing each one to stand on its own, the artist sculpted pieces with interconnecting visual elements that include repetition, tension and stability. | 3/24/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Puzzle Tower 1, 2007 | Puzzle Tower, by Chris Gander, consists of five basic geometric forms designed as an exploration of symmetry and visual balance. These structural and architectural forms invite viewers to speculate and find meaningful personal references from something unknown or unfamiliar. | 3/24/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Two elements from Chain of Life, 2008 – Twisted Ribbon and Pioneer Quilts | The Chain of Life, by Richard 'Dick' Elliott, includes patterns found in indigenous basketry, pioneer quilts and the spiral shape of DNA. The work appears in the brick pavers of the station platform, in the cut steel designs of the walkway guardrails and in windows of the parking garage elevator shaft. | 3/24/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
| Total: 24 Episodes |
