Client: Colorado Council on the Arts
Location: Pueblo, CO, United States
Completion date: 2009
Project Team
Public Art Agent
Colorado Council on the Arts
Artist
David Tonnesen
Overview
“Birds” Sculpture Detail. 14’Hx15’Wx8’D. Colorado Mental Health Institute at Pueblo, Robert Lee Hawkins Forensic Institute of Psychiatry. Public Art commissioned by the Colorado Council on the Arts. Installed 8/2008. A place-marking, entry sculpture in polychrome stainless steel and Cor-ten steel.
Goals
The client wanted a positive uplifting message for its troubled residents to be inspired by. I proposed an abstract flock of birds that soars upward conveying a positive and uplifting message to staff, residents and visitors.
Process
The art selection committee was comprised of the staff and directors of the center.