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Traffic Signal Boxes
from Public Arts 2021
by Missoulian
Kara Maul, “Dog Days of Summer”, Russell and Wyoming
For fourteen years the City of Missoula Public Art Committee has worked with state and local agencies, local organizations, businesses and individuals to enrich Missoula’s street corners. The Committee has invited artists living in Missoula County to create art on traffi c signal boxes throughout Missoula. The boxes serve as “canvases,” enhancing our community and enriching our visual surroundings. The project offers artists of all ages and levels of experience an opportunity to understand the public art process, exhibit their talent to thousands, and contribute to the beauty this amazing community.
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The boxes and the artwork that graces them are ephemeral. At times, boxes are replaced for safety and technological reasons. The new boxes are graced with artwork as funding permits. By 2021, nearly all of Missoula’s seventy-three signal boxes have been completed. 2021 will bring exciting new works, featuring imagery from Missoula’s renowned arts community.
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installation at the art Park Embraces Community and sustainability
Robert harrison: It Takes a Village is on view at the Missoula Art Park from mid-May to mid-October. Harrison is a Helena-based artist at the forefront of radical change in the ceramic community. Author of Sustainable Ceramics: A Practical guide and leading the National Council on Education for the Ceramic Arts Green Committee, Harrison challenges the medium’s extractive history and encourages its long-term sustainability.
Harrison is internationally known for his large-scale, site-specific architectural sculpture. It Takes a Village comprises entirely new, wire-mesh house structures that continue his exploration of architecturally based work. Harrison has invited the Missoula community to contribute material—brick, stone, porcelain—to fill the interior space. This collection of house forms suggests a community, giving voice to the adage in the exhibit title, which celebrates collective action.
Harrison has served as president of the board for both the National Council on Education for the Ceramic Arts and the Archie Bray Foundation for the Ceramic Arts. He has received numerous accolades from the ceramics community and was most recently awarded the Artist Innovation Award by the Montana Arts Council in 2019.
The Missoula Art Park is located at the corner of Pattee and Pine streets, adjacent to the Missoula Art Museum. Both the Art Park and the museum are free. This exhibit is sponsored by Timothy Gordon Appraisals and Caras Nursery. Visit missoulaartmuseum.org for more information.
The house totems will be filled with upcycled material, copyright Robert Harrison, 2021. Open from May 17 - Oct. 15, 2021.
