Client: Kenner Sculpture Garden
Location: New Orleans, LA, United States
Completion date: 2017
Artwork budget: $45,000
Project Team
Artist
Vivien Abrams Collens
Public Art Agent
Michael Manjarris
Manjarris Sculpture
Overview
Froebel’s Gifts : Energized Cube was commissioned for the Kenner Sculpture Garden in New Orleans. It is welded aluminum, measures 16' x 4' x 4' .
Goals
It is located in Kenner Sculpture Garden on Power Blvd. in Kenner, LA, a suburb of New Orleans.
Process
The prototype was a wood sculpture about 6.' high high made of 12 identical modules. I had a CAD file made of the module and then printed 5" high 3 D prints and assembled them exactly as the sculpture was to be assembled. The CAD file and small model were then sent to the engineer for approval, and then to the fabricator in Corpus Christi.
Additional Information
The sculpture is made of 12 identical welded aluminum modules. The title is an homage to Friedrich Froebel, who invented Kindergarten in Germany in 1838.. He gave children sets of basic forms (cube, sphere , cylinder, beam) to manipulate to enhance their ability to think creatively. As children, Frank Lloyd Wright and Buckminster Fuller both had sets of Froebel's Gifts. This tower of modules made of beams and cubes is a structure embodying the creative process Froebel celebrated. Other works from this series are available on request.