Artist:Roberto Delgado

Theme:  A theme of capturing people and places around the Snelling area is inspired by historic archival photographs and the artist’s own photo studies of the area. The color scheme will be fairly bright, vibrant colors as expressed in a community meeting with the artist. The artist will apply the tiles in concrete and stainless steel light columns, which are turned at 45-degree angles. The tiles are also inset in the large panels. The artist will use a technique of photographs grouped together and applied to tiles via airbrush and photo silk-screen. 

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11. Snelling Avenue -- Roberto Delgado

Artist:  Roberto Delgado

Theme:  A unique canvas between tall buildings, capturing people and places around the station. The artist uses historic archival photographs and his own photo studies of the area to reflect the demographics of each station’s extended neighborhoods. The photographs are applied to tiles inset into light columns and on large panels. The artist uses a technique of photographs grouped together and applied to tiles via airbrush and photo silk-screen.

02. Central Station -- Roberto Delgado

Artist:  Andrea Myklebust and Stanton Sears

Theme:  A theme of rail transportation past inspired by trains that would have passed through Union Depot at the time of its construction in the 1920s. They propose a large carved black granite wheel (representing drive wheels of the P-2 Mountain Class steam engine from the Great Northern “Oriental Limited” train and “Empire Builder” train. A bronze sculptural element will clad a light column, depicting a stack of wheels of transit used in the corridor over time (same sculptural element at Westgate Station, the other book-end or gateway of Central Corridor LRT stations), as well as a band of transportation scenes in relief on large panels.

01. Union Depot -- Stanton Sears

Artist:  Andrea Myklebust and Stanton Sears

Theme:  Their theme and inspiration are the Red River oxcart trail that passed near the station site and transportation from industrial business activities located in the vicinity. They propose a set of carved black granite wheels to depict the oxcart and transportation industry and intricate artwork in a raised safety screen of bronze wire mesh surrounding the carved granite, as well as a band of transportation scenes in relief on large panels.

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13. Raymond Avenue - Stanton Sears

Artist:  Andrea Myklebust and Stanton Sears

Theme:  Themes of a vintage International Harvester tractor wheel and 1920s Willys-Overland car wheel are inspired by historic industry near the site. The tractor wheel alludes to the agricultural heritage of the larger region, and the car wheel broadly references the corridor’s transit theme. They propose a set of carved black granite wheels to depict the tractor and car wheels, and a bronze sculptural element to depict a stack of wheels of transit used in the corridor over time (same sculptural element at Union Depot, the two book-end or gateway of Central Corridor LRT stations in St. Paul.) Large inset granite lettering and directional arrow reading “Minneapolis” on the westbound platform and “St. Paul” on eastbound platform, and rumble strip on the street surface would be placed at the border of Minneapolis and St. Paul.

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14. Westgate -- Stanton Sears

Artist:  Catherine Widgery

Theme:  The artist has found inspiration in the clothing and cultural icons of several Asian cultures, and is in the process of developing this concept.  One portion of the concept developed thus far is the use of metal discs on a metal spiral mounted at the top of several light columns.

06. Western Ave. -- Catherine Widgery

 Artist:  Nancy Blum

Theme:  Oak theme inspired by the neighborhood’s old oak forests found in its parks. The concept envisions a glass mosaic of components of the oak tree structure. Mosaics will be on both platforms using smaller panels on the train side and larger panels on the street side.

12 Fairview Ave Blum

 Artist:  Nancy Blum

Theme:  A bird sanctuary inspired by the nearby Mississippi River Flyway for migratory birds and African fabrics inspired by the area’s history of housing immigrants and members of the counterculture. Her concept envisions metal birds hung on mesh stairwell and masked/sandblasted/painted/cut stairwell mesh of African fabrics.

18 West Bank Blum

 Artist:  Nancy Blum

Theme:  The University of Minnesota science theme of discovery inspired her design of stainless steel spirographs mounted on panels of the communication cabinets and mathematical equations etched into their panels. Same designs will be visible from both sides of the center platform.

17 East Bank Blum

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