The art project will be implemented as part of the $50 million in renovations to its historic Terminal 1 and connecting concourses. Lambert will install art glass screens in Concourses A & C during a year- long renovation project that begins on 1 December 2010.
Renovations projects in Terminal 1 will begin by early 2011. The airport renovations and the creation of Lambert’s Public Art and Culture Project are part of the Airport Experience Program which began in 2008.
Nine local artists are now designing concepts for the art glass screens, which are the first public art commissions for Lambert within its new Public Art and Culture Project. The selected artists are Lauren Adams; Sarah Giannobile; Joan Hall; Jana Harper; Tom Huck; William LaChance; Eva Lundsager; Edna Patterson-Petty and Mel Watkin.
The artists for this project were chosen from a competitive call to artists, selected by the airport’s new Art Advisory Committee with a focus on their past artistic works and the best artistic styles that would translate into glass. Each artist will create designs for three side-by-side glass panels measuring 5.5ft high by 3ft wide, with an overall glass ‘canvas’ of nearly 50 square feet. The first art glass screens are scheduled to be installed by early 2011.
The $50 million modernization project is considered to be the largest interior renovation in the history of the airport.
