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Please join us for an Ice Cream Social to dedicate Vertical Loop By artist Ron Fondaw June 12th, 7:30 pm Pageant Walkway, east side of the Pageant at 6161 Delmar Blvd. Along the public walkway connecting Delmar Boulevard and Enright Avenue, adjacent to The Pageant, one can’t help but notice the new public art sculpture, Vertical Loop, a sequence of seven, colorful, 30- foot high poles reaching toward the sky, arranged with carved images representing life in the Delmar Loop. Four of the poles are topped with wind vanes in the shape of a ballet slipper, book, guitar, and painter’s palette.
All are adorned with glowing fiberglass light shades and LED top lights, which will be lit for the first time on June 12th. Vertical Loop is a public art commission of the City of St. Louis in conjunction with Arts in Transit. Special thanks to Joe Edwards, Kiku Obata & Company, the Missouri Department of Transportation and the Regional Arts Commission. Arts in Transit (AIT) is a community partnership program of Metro. Arts in Transit furthers Metro’s mission of “economic development through excellence in transportation” by forging community partnerships and creating customer friendly and aesthetically appealing, community oriented transit environments. Since its inception in 1986, Arts in Transit has completed more than 100 public art projects, installations and community enhancements. For further information and to view past projects, visit our website at www.artsintransit.org.
Originally published in The Times of Skinker-DeBaliviere, Summer 2003.
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Archival transcription note: Dedication invitation says7:30pm while calendar says7:00pm; source times retained.
Original source: SD_Times2003_06.pdf, printed page(s) 1; PDF page(s) 1.
