By Michele E. Buttelman
Dotted all through the panorama of Santa Clarita residents will come across poetry etched in concrete, brightly painted murals and placing creative sculptures.
The seen handiwork of the Santa Clarita Arts Fee could be discovered at practically 100 places all through the town.
From “California Scape” positioned in Honest Oaks Park in Canyon Nation to “Crossroads” on the Iron Horse Trailhead in Valencia the artwork encompasses a wide range of sizes, kinds and genres.
Arts Fee
In 2009 the Santa Clarita Metropolis Council based the Santa Clarita Arts Fee.
Present members of the Santa Clarita Arts Fee: Chair Susan Shapiro, Vice-Chair April Scott-Goss, Patti Rassmusen, Andrea Vibe and
Dr. Michael Millar.
Millar was the founding Chair of the Arts Fee in 2009. He has served on the fee since its inception.
Commissioner Patti Rassmusen, who has served on the fee since 2013, mentioned she is keen about arts schooling.
“I’ve seen what the humanities can do for these youngsters who don’t need to play sports activities, who've this facet to them that we have to encourage,” she mentioned. “Seeing what public artwork can do for a group is eye-opening and superb. We're so fortunate to have a metropolis council that embraces artwork. I'm happy with our city.”
Arts Grasp Plan
In fall 2016, the Santa Clarita Metropolis Council permitted the Arts Grasp Plan, which has develop into the Arts Fee’s guiding doc to supply arts, leisure and cultural improvement all through the town.
As a part of the plan the next imaginative and prescient assertion was issued:
“The Metropolis of Santa Clarita will likely be acknowledged as a ‘metropolis of the humanities,’ the place the lives of residents, artists and guests are enriched by way of creative and cultural experiences.”
The plan mandated that public artwork planning and choice makes use of peer evaluate and group enter to make sure that public artwork items meet the targets of offering fulfilling and enticing public areas that replicate the character of the group.
Susan Shapiro, Arts Fee Chair, mentioned the implementation of an Arts Grasp Plan was a milestone for the fee.
“The Grasp Plan made it attainable to indicate the town’s dedication to public artwork,” she mentioned. “As well as, the Arts Grasp Plan is a vital option to present help for artists locally.”
Shapiro mentioned it's essential to make experiences with artwork and tradition accessible to everybody locally.
One among Shapiro’s hopes for the long run is to see the event of artist’s live-work house.
“We have to do extra to help artists that reside in our group and need to work in our group,” she mentioned. “One of many essential issues the humanities fee can do is present the humanities group in Santa Clarita that they're valued.”
Sculptures
Public artwork in Santa Clarita contains greater than 25 sculptures of which three are non permanent installations.
The latest installations are positioned on the new Canyon Nation Neighborhood Heart, 18410 Sierra Freeway, Canyon Nation, CA 91351.
The items embrace “Communitree” and “Circle Tune,” a mural fully comprised of handmade glazed ceramic tiles, together with tiles created by Santa Clarita residents.
Additionally positioned on the group heart is the “Iconic Gasoline Pump Bike Rack.” A useful art work that serves as a motorcycle rack. Included into the bike rack is a service station for minor bike repairs together with a pump and instruments, mentioned Shapiro.
Amongst Santa Clarita’s different notable sculpture installations are “Fireplace Pit” positioned at Fireplace Station 156 in Valencia, “IMAG_NE” on the Valencia Library, “Willie Johnston” at Newhall Veteran’s Historic Plaza and “Saugus Memorial Obelisks,” two obelisks coated in 28,000 Italian mosaic glass tiles honoring the 2 college students killed within the 2919 Saugus Excessive College taking pictures.
Quite a few public artwork initiatives have been put in in Santa Clarita previous to the institution of the Arts Fee together with the 2006 Artwork Can Challenge. The painted 55-gallon metal drums are used as useful artwork and positioned in Newhall.
One among Santa Clarita’s first artwork installations was the 1994 water characteristic on the Santa Clarita Metrolink Station.
The California Bear Challenge, developed in August 2004 by the town, has put in life-sized fiberglass representations of a California Grizzly Bear from 2005 to 2018 all through Santa Clarita.
Murals
Among the many 15 murals and work in Santa Clarita are a collection of wall murals painted in 2007 in Newhall on Most important Avenue that commemorate Santa Clarita’s western heritage. Artwork additionally adorns the Santa Clarita Skate Park and Aquatics Heart, public libraries and different places.
Sidewalk Poetry
The 30 installations of sidewalk poetry are unfold all through Santa Clarita ready to be discovered like hidden gems within the mud. The Santa Clarita Sidewalk Poetry Program is a collaboration with the town’s Division of Public Works as a part of a sidewalk rehabilitation program, with round 10 poems chosen every year to be stamped on broken sidewalks which can be being repaired.
Future Artwork
Three further sculptures are awaiting set up on the Canyon Nation Neighborhood Heart. The metal artworks, “Within the Wind,” “Amongst the Wildflowers” and “Canyon Dawn” by H&E Design will symbolize the Western scrub-jay, wildflowers and the canyon dawn, which have been impressed by Santa Clarita’s environment.
Presently, Santa Clarita has issued a name for artists to design a mural for the newly opened Santa Clarita Sheriff’s Station on Golden Valley Highway.
Shapiro mentioned the Vista Canyon Metrolink Station may even embrace an artwork set up honoring the Chinese language immigrants who labored on the railroad within the Santa Clarita Valley.
The Arts Fee meets on the second Thursday of the month, at 6 p.m. within the Metropolis Council Chambers, 1st flooring of Metropolis Corridor, 23920 Valencia Blvd., Santa Clarita, CA 91355.
To seek out all the general public artwork places in Santa Clarita go to https://santaclaritaarts.com/publicart/
