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Feel the Energy at the Central Library

July 8th, 2009 Tana

This summer you can experience the energy of the Central Library with “Community Energy Project”, a public art installation funded by the Madison Arts Commission BLINK Grant.

Public institutions like schools, community centers, and libraries, provide their community with intellectual energy and environments that encourages collaboration and growth. The symbolism of an electrical outlet placed onto a still-functional library door emphasizes this role as a source of energy and not simply as a resource for information.

The painted tiles are the favorite books by enthusiastic kids from the Goodman Community Center. They used their imagination to redesign the covers of these books as they wanted. Each book cover is an original design.

Artist Logan Woods is an undergraduate sculptor from the University of Wisconsin-Madison. This is his first public art piece.

Entry Filed under: Central Library, City Connection, In the Galleries