Their sculpture, titled "Flight," was installed outside Door 3 late last month and marks the completion of the first phase of an outdoor baggage claim sculptural walk at the airport. PIT's Art Advisory Committee selected "Flight," along with three other projects, each receiving a $25,000 stipend and an agreement to loan the work to the airport for up to five years.
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I’ve always loved seeing the sculptures and installations that have been placed in the airports I’ve visited. It gives artists a chance to create something and have a guaranteed audience. That’s part of what I enjoyed so much about the ‘Line and Form’ design installation project. I think they do a great job at livening up and giving personality to these places. They can help make traveling seem more magical and make it feel exciting to be going somewhere. The large sculpture that they have in this article is really interesting. I how it’s made up of an array of smaller ‘paper’ airplanes that are arranged to form a larger paper airplane. It brings back a memory of the wonder and playfulness of being a little kid folding airplanes and throwing them around. It also has a nice rainbow gradient that travels from the back to the tip of the sculpture that I really enjoy, and I think it helps guide your eye along the plane, to the tip, and beyond. I really hope that someday I’ll be able to take part in making a big installation as well.
This sculpture is beautiful and very visually striking. I do not doubt that to many, it acts as a warm, welcoming beacon at the airport, which is such an otherwise stark environment. The process that these students followed to create this piece seems like it was a lengthy one. I am shocked that they were able to get $9,000 worth of paint from one vendor as a donation. This project definitely came together through a number of efforts from different people, and their work paid off. The “paper” planes, the paint, and eventually the rigging of all of it from the ceiling all after the airport’s commission came together incredibly well. I am glad these students were able to keep up with their degrees while working on the project. That level of multitasking seems very difficult and time consuming, and though it was probably both of those things, they got something wonderful out of it.
I’ve always been an admirer of art in public places. The fact that this colorful installation is placed among the monotonous grayscale of an airport bring life is incredibly strategic. This prompts an essential question of how do people interact with your art? Which audience are you reaching? Is your message understood in the way you intended it to be? This piece is both appealing to tired adult travelers, and children who are drawn to colorful shapes, especially ones they recognize as playful paper airplanes. I’m also excited to see local art being showcase. When I visited the Pittsburgh Center for the Arts for my scavenger hunt project in the fall, I learned that only art created by individuals who live within a few-mile radius was displayed in the museum to show support for those in the community. Choosing to display student work is also important to me because it encourages the future generation of artists.
Wow this is such a cool sculpture I love that CMU students were involved. This is perfectly what the Pittsburgh airport needs a big splash of color in the dark and old airport. The cost of the paint for this was also absolutely crazy! 9,000 dollars for special paint? That’s all insane I’m glad this was done by students for public art installation because thats insane. I also wonder more about the process for this because it does seem like it would take awfully long to paint and construct these in a proper manner. It is remarkable what they have done to the space my only other question about this installation is were it will go after its time in the airport has expired. This is the kind of piece that I feel like could also easily be mass produced or at least recreated and shown as sister pieces in other airports across the country.
Airport installations are always really cool. Travelling can be stressful and boring, and I think it is brilliant to help liven the space, and I think that it also gives the artist and their work the incredible exposure that they deserve. Something that I think was done really well is actually the way in which the sculpture was hung is equally as beautiful as the structure itself. Their idea that the space “acts as a welcome mat to the city for weary travelers” felt so sweet and wholesome. I appreciated that their concept of the parts of a whole was reflected so clearly in their process as well. Through support from their advisors, support from local artisans, and the Pittsburgh community, they were able to create something truly beautiful. Creating an installation of this scale and in an airport must have had a lot of challenges, and I would like to have heard more about the logistical process, but this project is really beautiful, and I will definitely look out for it in the future.
This is really cool. There is art everywhere and people don’t usually notice it. This was designed to be noticed and serves quite an interesting purpose for an airport. While all art sends some sort of message, the message being sent by this piece was specifically designed for the airport rather than placed in it like most works. This adds a whole new level of meaning to it because rather than the art saying something the art in that space says something. It looks quite phenomenal and something the airport needs. I remember the first time I walked through that airport and I did not feel happy. It is dreary and I was having a bad day. The color that this provides would have given me hope for Pittsburgh especially when you arrive on those cloudy, below zero-degree days. A phenomenal work of art and something that is truly uplifting.
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