Bloomington Artist Reza Pishgahi Selected for Gateway Public Art Project

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
February 8, 2012

For more information, please contact:
Miah Michaelsen, Assistant Economic Development Director for the Arts, City of Bloomington, 349.3534, michaelm@bloomington.in.gov
Brian Robinson, Interim Communications Director, City of Bloomington, 349.3406, robinsonb@bloomington.in.gov


Bloomington Artist Reza Pishgahi Selected for Gateway Public Art Project

Bloomington, IN -- Bloomington artist Reza Pishgahi has been selected to create a new public art gateway sculpture to be installed on 4th Street in the Bloomington Entertainment and Arts District (BEAD) in 2012.

The goal of the project was to design a unique, durable, site-specific artwork to act as a gateway to BEAD's Restaurant Row Character District, the 4th Street Arts Festival Street and the Indiana University campus. This installation will be the first of a series of gateways in BEAD character districts.

The selected artwork features arches of limestone, powder-coated steel and cast glass over the sidewalks on both sides of 4th Street in the area that informally demarcates the geographic beginning of the 4th Street Festival of the Arts. The design gives a slight nod to another Bloomington gateway, IU's Sample Gates, which are located one street over on the IU campus.

Pishgahi's artwork was selected from submissions by 16 other artists by a review panel. Pishgahi is a member of the 4th Street Festival Steering committee and has won numerous sculptural competitions and commissions. It is his first public art project for the City of Bloomington. Other work by Pishgahi can be viewed at his website: www.pishgahi.com.

For more information, contact Miah Michaelsen, Assistant Economic Development Director for the Arts, at michaelm@bloomington.in.gov or (812) 349-3534.

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