New Public Artworks Unveiled
at Thurgood Marshall College
Christine Clark| April 11, 2011
El Barco on site at Thurgood Marshall College.
The UC San Diego community will be sure to catch “Boat/El Barco,” a captivating new public artworks recently unveiled on the campus of Thurgood Marshall College (TMC). In celebration of Thurgood Marshall College’s 40th anniversary and UCSD’s 50th anniversary, TMC is presenting the final public arts commission installation by award-winning visual artist Robin Sanford Roberts. The piece features chairs stacked up one upon another in an outboard motor boat. “The imagery is an enigmatic mediation between perils of open water migration between Mexico and the United States,” said TMC Provost Allan Havis.
The two existing public outdoor works of art located on the TMC campus include a 22-foot-high “Giant Chair” by MFA theatre design graduate Caleb Levengood and the “Martin Luther King & 37th Street” mural designed by Sadie Barnette, a visual arts graduate student at UC San Diego.
A reception Thursday afternoon attended by students, staff and Roberts, celebrated the unveiling of the new Boat/El Barco installation. “It definitely catches your attention,” said Janet Chien a fourth-year Thurgood Marshal student. “I think it is a good fit for our college because of Marshall’s tradition of celebrating cultural diversity.”
Roberts is an award-winning theatre set designer based in San Diego. Her stage designs have been seen around the country at leading regional theatres and on Broadway. She received her Master of Fine Arts from UC San Diego, and currently teaches at the Bravo School of Art.
For more information about Thurgood Marshall’s 40th Anniversary, go to: http://marshall.ucsd.edu/40th/
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