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Downtown |
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Agricultural Heritage Plaques: French Prune, Bartlett Pear, Blenheim Apricot, Payne Walnut, Jordanola Almond, Bing Cherry |
Various locations Downtown Campbell Avenue, Civic Center Drive, Central Avenue. All 12 plaques displayed in the center of Orchard City Green. |
Installed in 1992 as part of the Downtown Streetscape Project. The fruits and blossoms commemorate Campbell's agricultural heritage. |
Alfredo Mucchino |
Mr. Mucchino, a respected brand and design expert, is the Chief Creative Director of Liquid Agency, Inc. Before that, he was the Chief Creative Officer of Full Moon Interactive and Muccino Design Group, a design firm he started in 1980. MDG grew to become one of the leading brand and corporate identity design firms in Silicon Valley. |
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Art Panels, 2002 |
Second Street Parking Garage |
The panels were designed to capture Campbell's orchard history, portray the seasons and include the natural imagery of the sky, earth and trees in its design. The panels are constructed with bronze, brass, powder coated stainless steel, aluminum and copper. |
Lea Anne Lake and Tom Askman, Spokane, Washington |
Tom Askman is Professor and Art Department Chairman, Eastern Washington University, Cheney, Washington.
Lea Anne Lake is a professional artist located in Spokane, WA. |
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Second Street side of Parking Garage |
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"Gateway", 2001 |
East and west entrances to Downtown Campbell |
The arch was designed to symbolize a "Gateway" at the entrances to historic Downtown Campbell and incorporates the Water Tower logo as part of the design. |
Artist: Suzanne Bauer, Bauer Design
Fabricator: Brian Padilla, Brian's Welding |
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Community Center |
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"Apricot Walk ", 2003 |
Main sidewalk at the Community Center. |
Pattern is evocative of fruit drying in trays. Commemorates and celebrates Campbell's history as the "Orchard City" and a past location of one of the largest fruit drying grounds in the world. |
Sheila Ghidini, San Francisco, CA |
Ms. Ghidini has been a practicing artist for over 20 years. She has worked in a wide range of media, which have taken form in drawing, sculpture, installations and collaborations. Much of her work revolves around a sense of place and memory. |
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Handball Mural |
Community Center Handball Court |
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Niles Palmer Sportsart, Whittier, CA |
Mr. Palmer's work is characterized by an unusual ability to capture impressions of color and movement. This ability combined with his lifelong interest in all types of sports results in unique and imaginative portrayals of sports happenings. His work form the decor of many court clubs, college and municipal golf clubs and aquatic centers, city parks and ball fields. |
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"Handball Gloves" |
Community Center Handball Court |
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Robert Kass |
Currently the City of Campbell Public Works Director. |
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At the tennis courts. |
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Niles Palmer Sportsart, Whittier, CA |
Mr. Palmer's work is characterized by an unusual ability to capture impressions of color and movement. This ability combined with his lifelong interest in all types of sports results in unique and imaginative portrayals of sports happenings. His work form the decor of many court clubs, college and municipal golf clubs and aquatic centers, city parks and ball fields. |
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Around the walls of the Community Center swimming pool and gymnasium buildings. |
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Library |
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"Children's Authors" |
At the Harrison Avenue entrance to the Campbell Library. |
In conjunction with the City's 2001 Annual Sidewalk Maintenance Project, the main entrance to the Library was re-landscaped. Part of the design included a children's authors word search. The authors are: Baum, Blume, Carroll, Cleary, Dahl, Frank, Grimm, Lewis, Lindgren, Milne, Sendak, Poe, Rowling, Twain, Seuss, Tolkien, Wilder, Verne and White. |
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"Discover Water" |
Along the Los Gatos Creek Trail just south of the Campbell Park bridge. |
Installed by the Santa Clara Valley Water District as a means of educating the public about creeks, tributaries, aquifers and their Adopt a Creek Program. |
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"Fishin' with Roger", 2004 |
In the reflection ponds in front of the Heritage Theatre. |
Roger was Artist Cork Marcheschi's grandfather. Time spent with him was magical. The color, light and fantasy of this sculpture comes close to expressing the magic times they had together. |
Cork Marcheschi, San Francisco, CA |
Mr. Marcheschi has worked as a fine artist for 35 years and public art for 23 years. He has worked all over the world. His fine art work is about energy, light and humor. Light is the material of our visual experiences. We know it as an abstract material. This prelinguistic knowledge is a very important component in understanding why artworks composed of light penetrate people's barriers of abstract art and ideas. |
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Flowers - From early 1999 until February 2008, this colorful mural of fruits and flowers graced the stucco wall at the corner of San Tomas Expressway and Campbell Avenue. Unfortunately, during a blustery storm on February 20, 2008 the wall collapsed, taking the majority of the mural with it. |
Northwest Corner of Campbell Avenue and San Tomas Expressway |
Because of frequent tagging on the sound wall, artist Debbie Arambula volunteered to paint this mural.
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Debbie Arambula |
Born in Tucson, Arizona, and raised in the Almaden Valley, Ms. Arambula created beautiful works of art that uplift and inspire people. Her art studio is located in Downtown Campbell. |
Parks - Ainsley |
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"Beacon" - a smooth edged vertical spine 11 feet tall cut from 1/2 inch steel is 4.5 feet at its widest point. Decorative images of fruit, nuts, seeds and spirals are laser cut from 1/2 inch steel. |
Ainsley Park |
Glen Rogers' inspiration for "Beacon" comes from a lantern shape depicting a beacon of guiding light, illuminating the way to Campbell's Historic Downtown. Rogers selected design elements found in nature, like spirals and circles, which symbolize unity and oneness, and combined them with designs representative of Campbell's agricultural past. |
Glen Rogers |
Ms. Rogers' work reflects an investigation into archetypal symbols found in nature and inscribed on ancient stones. She draws from this universal visual language, returning again and again to some of nature's purest forms such as the spiral, the circle, and the crescent, whose cyclical shapes suggest renewal and regeneration, birth and the cycle of life.
Other works by the artist located in the City of Campbell include "Swimming in Circles" at John D. Morgan Park and "Essence of Water" at Edith Morley Park. |
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Copper panels copied from the "Beacon" sculpture and inlaid into the seat wall depicting images of fruit, nuts and seeds. |
Ainsley Park |
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Glen Rogers |
Ms. Rogers' work reflects an investigation into archetypal symbols found in nature and inscribed on ancient stones. She draws from this universal visual language, returning again and again to some of nature's purest forms such as the spiral, the circle, and the crescent, whose cyclical shapes suggest renewal and regeneration, birth and the cycle of life.
Other works by the artist located in the City of Campbell include "Swimming in Circles" at John D. Morgan Park and "Essence of Water" at Edith Morley Park. |
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View of the right half of the seat wall. |
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View of the left half of the seat wall. |
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Parks - Morgan |
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Water play area in the playground on the Budd Avenue side of John D. Morgan Park |
Installed May, 2004 with other playground improvements under the Park Improvement Implementation Plan adopted by the City Council, October 1996. |
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"Swimming in Circles" May 1999 |
Rincon Avenue playground at John D. Morgan Park |
Ceramic Tiles by Rolling Hills and Campbell Middle School Students in Collaboration with Glen Rogers and Bill Gould |
Glen Rogers,
Oakland, CA
Bill Gould, San Jose, CA |
Ms. Rogers work reflects an investigation into archetypal symbols found in nature and inscribed on ancient stones. She draws from this universal visual language, returning again and again to some of nature’s purest forms such as the spiral, the circle, and the crescent, whose cyclical shapes suggest renewal and regeneration, birth and the cycle of life.
Bill Gould Design addresses the issue of bland, generic architectural environments through creative, economical architectural solutions and the reintegration of art into architecture. |
Parks - Fischer |
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Tile Murals |
Jack Fischer Park |
Completed by students in 1969, the tile murals were originally displayed on the front of the San Tomas Elementary School. Titled: Santa Clara Valley - The Old and the New, the murals were created from students illustrations of the past, present and future of the Campbell area. The murals celebrate the heritage of the San Tomas area and stand today as a reminder of the many students who attended school on this site. |
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Fossils and Dinosaur Bones |
On the sides of the water play feature at Jack Fischer Park. |
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Moore Iacofano Goltsman (MIG), Tim Gilbert, Landscape Architect |
MIG's play environments inspire children to be fit and active and foster their social, emotional and cognitive development. |
Parks - Morley |
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"Essence of Water", 2000 |
Edith Morley Park |
Fabricated steel wall sculpture with rust patina incorporating landscaping elements of trees and vines |
Glen Rogers, Oakland, CA |
Ms. Rogers' work reflects an investigation into archetypal symbols found in nature and inscribed on ancient stones. She draws from this universal visual language, returning again and again to some of nature's purest forms such as the spiral, the circle, and the crescent, whose cyclical shapes suggest renewal and regeneration, birth and the cycle of life. |
Parks - Dog Park |
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Mural - "Dogs on Pedestals" |
Los Gatos Creek County Park Dog Park |
Installed in 2006 as part of the Dog Park Project. |
Janice Lowe, owner of Fo. Decorative Painting, Morgan Hill, Ca. |
Janice specializes in murals, specialty faux finishes, fine art paintings and bronze sculpture. The inspiration for the Dog Park project was the concept of elevated status for pets that parks are designed around. Her mural work is often whimsical in nature, and most always conveys her highest personal priorities: personality, energy and life. |
Parks - Virginia |
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All 26 alphabet letters and numbers 1 thru 10 along the park paths. |
Virginia Park |
Installed April, 2000 with other playground improvements under the Park Improvement Implementation Plan adopted by the City Council, October 1996. |
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