Arts and Culture in Gainesville&Alachua County


Solar Walk NW 8th Avenue (between NW 34th Street and NW 22nd Street) Gainesville, FL “Gainesville Solar Walk” 2002 In a cooperative project with the Alachua Astronomy club, artist Elizabeth Indianos created monuments to represent the planets of our solar system. Each of the ten, fourteen foot tall concrete monoliths is covered with tactile and visual information including: scientific facts, symbols and poetry. The linear path of monoliths stretches along 8th Avenue, spaced in ratios of the actual distances between the planets on a scale of 4 billion to 1. 10 colored concrete monoliths. Recycled glass and brick. Relief text. Glass marbles and stones Two public art benches created by Elizabeth Indianos entitled, “Clouds, Stars and Moons” were added on May 10, 2006.

Martin Luther King Jr. Multipurpose Center Citizens Park Gymnasium 1028 NE 14 Street, Gainesville, FL "Gainesville Athletes", 2002 This mural displays several levels of sports that Gainesville athletes have achieved. Gainesville artist Suzanne Marie Raveling captures the potential that exist among our youth beginning with high school sports, to college, to major league baseball and ultimately Olympic achievement. As children play in the gymnasium they are surrounded by images depicting endless possibilities. · Enamel paint on a 90' long and 24' tall cement block wall. City Hall Project City Hall, Entrance Lobby 200 E. University Avenue, Gainesville, FL "A Gainesville Group Portrait" 1996 Richard Heipp, Associate Professor of Art at the University of Florida created this mixed media installation for the newly renovated City Hall building in which he presents an unofficial history of the people of Gainesville. Twelve lightboxes house group portraits of local peoples, circa 1900-1940 and each is layered with a "Hobo symbol." The intent is to pay homage to the working people, the disenfranchised of our community and to stand as a reminder that government exists to serve all people. · 12 backlighted display panels with photographic color transparencies. · 4 cutout metal figurative elements. · 5 cutout metal symbols. SW 5th Ave Triangle "Rejoined" Artist Brad Smith states, “The design, a split column joined by three stainless steel bars, was to symbolize the old made new. It was also to act as a symbolic gateway connecting the University of Florida with the redeveloped University Heights neighborhood located adjacent to it.” The origin of “Rejoined” dates back to the early 1900s when construction began on the “old Federal Building” in downtown Gainesville. Granite blocks were laid as the foundation, upon which a steel frame supported limestone moldings and entablature. The building was finished in 1911 and housed the Post Office and the Federal Court until 1964 when those offices were moved to the new Federal building. When the building was renovated to house Gainesville’s Hippodrome Theatre, a number of granite foundation blocks and limestone molding were removed from the structure and put into storage. 2008, Indiana limestone, Georgia granite and stainless steel, recycled stone from renovation of the Hippodrome State Theatre Building Gainesville Regional Airport “Indigenous” Pete Davidson, 41, and his dog Mullet put the finishing touches on an alligator sculpture titled 'Indigenous' located in front of the Gainesville Regional Airport. Artist Pete Davidson states, “Indigenous is that which belongs, it assumes a rightful place. In the developed world today we travel constantly using the once abundant fossil fuels. Will we always move about like this? As you travel today pause and consider the honored American alligator. Some scientists say the species is as much as 150 million years old. The gator is the true Florida native. Clear waters and tall trees have witnessed centuries of mans trials and triumphs. The objects collected and embedded in the form for you to discover were created or found here, now. You are visiting or residing in the great Gainesville, Florida, home of the ancient American Alligator. Will you walk as the ancients did, go on Spanish horses’ hooves, ride the wagon wheels and the train tracks, or fly on the wings of an airplane? I celebrate in peace your place in this space with sculpture.”

Solar Walk
NW 8th Avenue (between NW 34th Street and NW 22nd Street)
Gainesville, FL
“Gainesville Solar Walk” 2002

In a cooperative project with the Alachua Astronomy club, artist Elizabeth Indianos created monuments to represent the planets of our solar system. Each of the ten, fourteen foot tall concrete monoliths is covered with tactile and visual information including: scientific facts, symbols and poetry. The linear path of monoliths stretches along 8th Avenue, spaced in ratios of the actual distances between the planets on a scale of 4 billion to 1.

10 colored concrete monoliths.

Recycled glass and brick.

Relief text.

Glass marbles and stones

Two public art benches created by Elizabeth Indianos entitled, “Clouds, Stars and Moons” were added on May 10, 2006.

Martin Luther King Jr. Multipurpose Center
Citizens Park Gymnasium
1028 NE 14 Street, Gainesville, FL
"Gainesville Athletes", 2002

This mural displays several levels of sports that Gainesville athletes have achieved. Gainesville artist Suzanne Marie Raveling captures the potential that exist among our youth beginning with high school sports, to college, to major league baseball and ultimately Olympic achievement. As children play in the gymnasium they are surrounded by images depicting endless possibilities.

· Enamel paint on a 90' long and 24' tall cement block wall.

City Hall Project
City Hall, Entrance Lobby
200 E. University Avenue, Gainesville, FL
"A Gainesville Group Portrait" 1996

Richard Heipp, Associate Professor of Art at the University of Florida created this mixed media installation for the newly renovated City Hall building in which he presents an unofficial history of the people of Gainesville. Twelve lightboxes house group portraits of local peoples, circa 1900-1940 and each is layered with a "Hobo symbol." The intent is to pay homage to the working people, the disenfranchised of our community and to stand as a reminder that government exists to serve all people.

· 12 backlighted display panels with photographic color transparencies.
· 4 cutout metal figurative elements.
· 5 cutout metal symbols.

SW 5th Ave Triangle
"Rejoined"

Artist Brad Smith states, “The design, a split column joined by three stainless steel bars, was to symbolize the old made new. It was also to act as a symbolic gateway connecting the University of Florida with the redeveloped University Heights neighborhood located adjacent to it.”

The origin of “Rejoined” dates back to the early 1900s when construction began on the “old Federal Building” in downtown Gainesville. Granite blocks were laid as the foundation, upon which a steel frame supported limestone moldings and entablature. The building was finished in 1911 and housed the Post Office and the Federal Court until 1964 when those offices were moved to the new Federal building. When the building was renovated to house Gainesville’s Hippodrome Theatre, a number of granite foundation blocks and limestone molding were removed from the structure and put into storage.

2008, Indiana limestone, Georgia granite and stainless steel, recycled stone from renovation of the Hippodrome State Theatre Building

Gainesville Regional Airport
“Indigenous”

Pete Davidson, 41, and his dog Mullet put the finishing touches on an alligator sculpture titled 'Indigenous' located in front of the Gainesville Regional Airport.

Artist Pete Davidson states, “Indigenous is that which belongs, it assumes a rightful place. In the developed world today we travel constantly using the once abundant fossil fuels. Will we always move about like this? As you travel today pause and consider the honored American alligator. Some scientists say the species is as much as 150 million years old. The gator is the true Florida native. Clear waters and tall trees have witnessed centuries of mans trials and triumphs. The objects collected and embedded in the form for you to discover were created or found here, now. You are visiting or residing in the great Gainesville, Florida, home of the ancient American Alligator. Will you walk as the ancients did, go on Spanish horses’ hooves, ride the wagon wheels and the train tracks, or fly on the wings of an airplane? I celebrate in peace your place in this space with sculpture.”