“Did You Check Out the New Kid?” or “Surprise Locker Inspection” or “Got Ink?”
An enormous octopus is trying to open the combination lock on a cast aluminum and bronze Davy Jones style locker in the locker bay. The sculpture was created in forton, aluminum and bronze.
Award Category
1% for Public Art AwardCommission Year
2014Client
New George H. Gilson Middle School
Best Of Care
The Mother Lynx and kitten cast in bronze are larger than life size and sit at the outdoor entrance to the Mental Health Clinic on Joint Base Elmendorf Richardson in Anchorage Alaska. We were commissioned by Cazador to create this sculpture for the Lynx Wing. It was cast at Bollinger Atelier in Tempe Arizona.
Award Category
1% For Public ArtCommission Year
2012Client
Cazador LLC
Given…By The Great Land
We created a sculpture with panels that flank the flag on the Delaney Park Strip to honor the great Alaskans that have given their lives in military service to our country. The title is inspired by the solemn saying… “All gave some, some gave ALL.”
Award Category
1% For Public ArtCommission Year
2013Client
Municipality Of Anchorage
Ready To Lead
This larger than life size bronze Siberian Tiger sits atop a glacier rock at the entrance of the Career Tech High School in Mat-Su Alaska. It is the school mascot and was cast at Bollinger Atelier in Tempe, Arizona.
Award Category
1% For Public Art AwardCommission Year
2009Client
Career & Technical High School
Top Of The Class
We created this sculpture for the Sitka Public Safety Academy. It is made of cast bronze, granite and cement. A larger than life State Trooper Hat made of bronze sits atop three granite law textbooks and rests on a cement plinth with a cast bronze plaque. The bronze was cast at Arizona Bronze (now Bollinger Atelier) in Tempe, Arizona.
Award Category
1% For Public Art AwardCommission Year
2004Client
Sitka Public Safety Academy
The Save
We created this life-size bronze cast sculpture at the Anchorage Downtown Fire Station #1. A firefighter’s arm reaches out to a child’s hand framed in a burning doorway. The names of all of the emergency personnel who perished in 9/11 in New York City are sealed in the arm of the firefighter. This sculpture was cast at Arizona Bronze (now Bollinger Atelier) in Tempe, Arizona.
Award Category
1% For Public Art AwardCommission Year
2002Client
Anchorage Fire Station #1
The Power Of Angalkut
This sculpture consists of 16 powder coated aluminum animals and figures for the exterior and interior walls of the Chefornak School in Alaska. It tells the story of the Shaman calling the animals to come from the spirit world to be food for the people. The Shamans are the school mascot.
Award Category
1% For Public Art AwardCommission Year
2013Client
Chefornak School
Skywalker
We created a life-size bronze and resin sculpture of a young wire-walker crossing over from the PAC to the Egan Center on a tightrope. This sculpture is located in the Sky Bridge between Egan Center and the Performing Arts Center in downtown Anchorage.
Award Category
1% For Public Art AwardCommission Year
2000Client
Performing Arts Center / Egan Center
Kongiganak School Art Canopy “Provider” and “Respect”
We did two sculptures for the Ayagina’ar Elitnaurvik School in Kongiganak Alaska, which get its name in honor of the best walrus hunter of the village. The art canopy (Provider) consists of powder coated aluminum animal shapes that depict his story of how he provided for the village. The light under the canopy (Respect) represents the hand of the elder with a young person’s hand over top of it.
Award Category
1% for Public ArtCommission Year
2009Client
Ayagina’ar Elitnaurvik School
Lift
We created life-size bronze and resin sculptures of a flock of 22 Canadian Geese for the Mat-Su Youth Facility. We incorporated the symbolic element of the “V” formation and the advantage of “wingtip vortex” providing “lifting energy” for the others in the group. This sculpture spoke to the facility’s mission of promoting a sense of responsibility for each individual and their role in the community.
Award Category
1% For Public Art AwardCommission Year
2004Client
Mat-Su Youth Facility
Keep It Coming! + Ready Seven
This project consists of two sculptures we did for the Sand Lake Fire Station #7. Keep It Coming! is a low relief recycled aluminum sculpture that stretches the length of the hallway and out the front door of the station, while Ready Seven consists of seven sand cast fire buckets and spools made from recycled aluminum and is used as the signage for the station.
Award Category
1% for Public Art AwardCommission Year
2003Client
Sand Lake Fire Station #7
Homewaters
We created this low relief cast bronze and resin sculpture depicting the life cycle of the salmon. The sculpture shows red salmon after they have returned to their spawning grounds in the river where they were born. The sculpture is 3 feet by 4 feet. It is the first in a suite of seven created for the State Veterinarian at the Department of Environmental Conservation in Anchorage. Each sculpture details a significant occurrence in the lives of wild animals in Alaska. Each of the animal sculptures contains a visual/verbal clue to their significance.
Award Category
1% Percent for Public ArtCommission Year
2008Client
Department of Environmental Conservation
Warrior Within
This monolithic stone sculpture with bronze and aluminum shields has illuminated feathers and is located at the entrance to Wasilla High School. It is based on sacred geometry and the Venn Diagram. The two intersecting circles represent family and school. They intersect to create the warrior shields. The bronze shield has a hand print representing good deeds and the aluminum shield has a flame symbol representing the spark of inspiration. The shields were cast at Bollinger Atelier in Tempe Arizona