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This project, installed in 2000, was funded by the Alaska State Council
on the Arts. Alaska has a history of commissioning artists from all over
the country and I was honored to have my design selected after a
national competition.
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Exterior View 1
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Exterior View 2
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The facility is for juvenile detention and includes a school for
children in residence. The windows are located in the main entrance
where parents come to visit. There are two major panels, up in the
eaves and twelve smaller panels in the entrance foyer.
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Interior View
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The windows have a clear-textured hand blown glass background allowing a vista
through, I wanted the installation to have an open feeling. The imagery
is based on abstractions that are inspired by Indian art and represent
things like wings or bird shapes or possibly totem pole shapes. These
represent freedom. I wanted the detailing to add a human scaled
detailing to the building and not be intimidating. The use of large
beveled glass prisms in the panels interact with the changing light and
create rainbows that are projected into the environment adding a sense
of warmth. The imagery is childlike and at the same time sophisticated
and is non institutional in its nature. The design is inspired by the
shapes of the architecture as well as responding to the culture of Alaska.
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