eNewsletter Spring 2010
Translucent etched bus shelter panels, designed by Juan and Patricia Navarrete, at the Rialto Avenue Station.
Beautifying Communities through Station Art
The new stations along the E Street Corridor will have cutting-edge technology—including electronic displayboards with real time arrival information
But it’s the public art designed for each station that will give each one a distinct identity and sense of place. Local artists are creating original art for each of the new stations.
Steel sculpture design of an abstracted orange tree by Kyungmi Shin for the Inland Mall Station.
Station art review commitees (SAR) from Loma Linda and San Bernardino helped select four individual artists and five artist teams for the public art opportunities for the project.
A number of semi-finalists prepared a preliminary design concept for the SAR committees. Based on their presentations, nine finalists were selected to develop final design concepts for the stations.
One of the artist teams selected is Juan and Patricia Navarette for the City of Loma Linda. Their concept for the Jerry L. Pettis Memorial Veterans Medical Center station at Benton Street and Barton Road includes the use of military seals from the seven branches of the armed forces etched in the glass panels of the station shelters. In addition, they have included a free-standing sculptural element conceptualized to honor veterans.
A stylized flag sculpture will be fabricated out of carbon steel and painted red, white and blue with gold and blue stars. The artist team will invite Veterans Administration medical centers throughout the area to participate in the sculpture project.
“We envision the flagpole affixed with hundreds of dog tags, symbolic of all the men and women in the armed forces holding up the flag,” said program manager Milind Joshi. “This artwork becomes a metaphor that veterans are the strength that enables the flag to fly proudly.”
