Wilson Students Create Mural for Sky Harbor Airport
June 7, 2002
Students at Wilson Elementary School created fossil-inspired shapes with Tucson ceramic artist Aurore Chabot for a new mural at Phoenix Sky Harbor International Airport. The artist will install the mural , from 8:30 a.m. to 4 p.m. Wednesday, June 12, and Thursday, June 13, in Terminal 4, level 2 (departure/ticketing), near the southwest entry.
Chabot worked with fourth and sixth grade students at Wilson Elementary School - not far from Sky Harbor Airport - to create the mural called "A Vortex of Time and Space." Wilson students made fossil shapes that the artist pressed into a mold and then inlaid into the surface of each ceramic tile, giving the tiles layers of texture.
The mural also includes geometric shapes found on Hohokam pottery and in indigenous rock art. Some of these images can be seen at the Pueblo Grande Museum, a large Hohokam site preserved near the airport on Washington Street east of 44th Street. Chabot selected images that encourage travelers to make connections between the past and present as they bustle through the facility during their travels in and out of the airport.
The mural will be the newest addition to Sky Harbor's collection of approximately 200 works of art. This project is funded through Aviation Percent for Art funds and administered through the Phoenix Arts Commission. The Phoenix Arts Commission's Public Art Program provides opportunities for artists to create artwork to enhance public spaces. For more information on the project, call the Phoenix Arts Commission at 602-262-4637.
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