Biographical
sketches
Reprinted with permission of the Journal-News
Stanton Gray
Sears is a sculptor and Associate Professor in the Department of Art at
Macalester College, St. Paul, Minnesota. He
holds degrees from the Rhode Island School of design and Penn State University.
In addition tothe fine arts, his training has included significant study
in architecture and landscape architecture.
Andrea
Myklebust is a sculptor and alumna of Macalester College. An architect's daughter, her activity outside of the fine
arts has included years of grass-roots work in neighborhood organizations'
community development initiatives to encourage the creation of a lively, high
quality public realm in our towns and cities.
Myklebust and
Sears began working collaboratively in 1994 with the production of “Octopus
and Ice Cream,” a Minnesota Percent-for-Art in Public Places commission at the
Minnesota Library for the Blind and Physically Handicapped.
They share a strong interest in the integration of art and architecture,
and in the constructive role public art can play within our communities and
their civic spaces.
Recent Public
and Civic Artwork
Commission to
execute a granite and marble floor (Voucher) for the University of Wisconsin
Green Bay's new Academic Building, with imagery drawn from the school's
herbarium and natural history specimens. Anticipated completion: late 2001.
Invitation to
design and execute an inlaid stone floor (Big Woods Summer) in water-jet cut
granite, marble and stainless steel for the expansion of the green concourse of
the Minneapolis St-Paul International Airport.
Anticipated completion: late 2000.
Design team
chosen to execute a sculptural seating area in carved limestone and cast bronze
for the Florida State Department of Health, Tallahassee, Florida,
The work, LifeRing, makes reference to the functions of the surrounding
buildings and incorporates elements drawn from plants and animals native to the
region. Anticipated completion Fall
2000.
Invitation
to create a contemplative viewing area and rooftop planters (Station 20 ICU)
adjacent to an Intensive Care Unit at Abbot Northwestern Hospital, Minneapolis,
Minnesota.
Design
and execution of the pedestrian plaza and fountain Weatherdance, with a design
based on archetypal weather patterns in the Midwest, for downtown Iowa City,
Iowa. The work includes carved
limestone seat walls depicting cloud fronts and meteorological symbols,
map-related paving in granite, and cast bonze fountain and infrastructure
elements.
Design and
execution of Boreal Triad, three inlaid floors in granite, marble, stainless
steel and brass at the Minneapolis-St. Paul International Airport.
The floors are directional markers oriented to north and emphasizing
ideas related to travel and the plants and animals of the region.