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Time Travelers
Emil Alzamora
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Time Travelers is a group of six life-size figures who appear to be visiting and observing our world from another dimension or another period in time, most likely the future. Though recognizable, they seem out of step with their surroundings. Watching them watch us, we begin to see the world as they do: as a whole new universe to be explored. Locations: Lyric Pocket Park, Summit Promenade, Kaus Way.
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Your Water, My Sky
Nancy Cohen
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Your Water, My Sky is an investigation into place and our experience of it. Each image comes from the artist's personal experience of waterways impacted by climate change. Banners juxtapose glimpses of two different sites, reflecting their individualities and commonalities. These pairings are metaphors for our human relationships, providing visual connections that bring unity to the Village Green and unite us with our surroundings.
Location: Village Green near the corner of Broad and Maple Street across from the Summit post office.
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Between Flagships
Ronen Gamil
| This textile installation celebrates the individual paths taken to a central meeting place. Drawing on local census data, the artist chose colors, shapes, and patterns from twenty flags corresponding to the ancestry of Summit residents whose families migrated to the United States. Each panel layers features from two or more flags to reference how our shared identities become blended over time and through generations. Location: Village Green near Maple St. across from the Summit Y. | | | |
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Cave Painting
Donna Conklin King
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This mural of clouds and sky explores the possibilities of concrete as a medium while addressing the relationship between nature, architecture, and the inevitable ruins of civilization. Celebrating the object’s history by emphasizing its imperfections with silver leaf, the sculpture itself becomes an artifact, highlighting the notions of resiliency, history, and archeology. Location: Village Green near intersection of Broad and Elm Streets.
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Star and Spheres
Ray King
| Using advanced technology, Ray King designs three-dimensional shapes and patterns that are astoundingly complex yet simple and elegant, primitive yet futuristic. Made of dichroic glass, King's sculptures simultaneously reflect and project light and color into the surrounding environment, continuously transforming their appearance as the viewer moves or as the light source changes throughout the day. Location: Summit City Hall at 512 Springfield Avenue. | | | |
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Woman in Heels
Willie Cole
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Inspired by Senufo sculpture, this figurative bronze demonstrates acclaimed artist Willie Cole's fondness for taking ordinary objects and recasting them in a “tribal narrative.” Modeled entirely from previously-worn shoes, this kneeling, full-bodied figure is an attempt to “extract the spirit from the original object” while exploring what one critic has called “the fantasy that high heels have always made it their business to promote.” Location: Village Green near the Summit train station.
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Walk the Streets
Hellbent
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Stretching across four floors, this sprawling mural, with its colorfully-patterned diagonal stripes, has transformed the facade of Summit's Springfield Avenue parking tier into a dynamic, eye-catching space. Artist Hellbent (JMikal Davis) describes his approach as "taking a vast array of colors and patterns and making them work together, which I think is what anyone wants from a community." Location: Springfield Avenue Tier Garage.
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What Lifts You
Kelsey Montague
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Since painting her first mural in New York’s Nolita neighborhood in 2014, artist Kelsey Montague has painted hundreds of murals on six continents and in dozens of cities across the globe. One of a series of her signature What Lifts You murals, this specially-commissioned pair of wings incorporates a number of features characteristic of Summit: a shade tree (for the city’s many parks and tree-lined streets), a train (for Summit’s Midtown Direct line to NYC), and a large sunflower (a nod to the sunflower patch growing nearby). Try on the wings yourself and snap a photo while you’re there! Location: Look for it on the wall behind Bar Bacoa restaurant, where Maple Street meets Deforest Avenue.
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The Watcher
Paul Santoleri
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This large-scale mural of a Great Blue Heron occupies the wall at Lyric Park with a commanding presence. Under its watchful eye, a dreamlike cityscape unfolds just beyond the nest of its feathers. Location: Lyric Park, where Beechwood Avenue meets Bank Street.
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Installed to mark the 50th anniversary of the Promenade Fountain, this dynamic glass sculpture both reflects and projects an ever-changing array of light and colors. Its triangulated panels align along planes that resemble mountain peaks and summits. At the center, a composition of small stainless steel spheres references the constellation Pleiades, named after the seven daughters of Atlas and Pleione. Location: Promenade Fountain, 426 Springfield Avenue.
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Silver Sentinel
Douwe Blumberg
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Artist Douwe Blumberg's homage to this city of trees greets visitors at the Gateway to Summit. Says Blumberg: "When I do a piece, my goal is to capture something special in it. I'm not interested in 'pretty.' I want a spark of life." Location: Down the hill from town where Broad Street meets Dayton Road.
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Stained glass panels inspired by cherry blossoms in full bloom at Summit's Reeves Reed Arboretum. Location: Bus Stop where Broad Street meets Railroad Avenue.
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Spring & Fall
Judith Weber
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Stained glass panels of abstract leaves referencing spring and fall. Location: Bus Stop where Broad Street meets Summit Avenue.
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While Waiting
Barbara Ellman
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Stained glass panels of crisp, colorful abstract forms reference a city's rhythms, momentum, and diversity. Location: Bus Stop where Maple meets Broad Street.
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