Devos Proposal

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Project: Helen DeVos Childrens Hospital Project

Proposed site: Project F : Beacons

Artist: T’Alyne

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Proposed site: Project F : Beacons T’Alyne www.talyne.org [email protected]

Statement My work focuses on the importance of

mark making and how this establishes relationships and bridges between our understanding of the environment and self. Flickering between two-dimensional and three-dimensional experiences my current work addresses the conceptual spirit of water. Living in Michigan surrounded by fresh water I continually observe and am fascinated by its constantly changing form while it trickles, seeps, and flows. I discover patterns when it freezes. I am spellbound when it floats in the air. Water is capable of great power and destruction. It is beautiful as it filters, reflects, refracts, and interacts with light. It represents a precise process, an

Studio View during production, Vermont







Artistic goals: I believe it is important to encourage cultural connections throughout our society establishing value and ensuring a reasonable participation in the philanthropic process for the arts and humanities. We must move toward an understanding of the value of art in our communities and family life. During this project, I am interested in embracing and highlighting our connections with the water around and near us through identifying its beauty, fragility, and its ethereal aspects. Through my work as an artist, I want to be part of the wave of collective consciousness implementing awareness. Building up our inventory of experiences that support the value of creativity and cultural heritage to the lives of people and their communities is essential. All life absolutely depends on and receives pleasure from water in some form.







Why important to artist? Water is a precious resource that we need

to protect. Being a responsible steward of our resources is key. Environmental awareness and protecting our natural resources are crucial if we are to survive. As a culture we are too busy to notice the delicacy of this complete system of life. Through my work as an artist, I view this project as a means to highlight these subtle spaces that filter and support water. It is crucial that we attend to the beauty, tranquility, and serenity in order to return to the center of balance. When we take care of our water we directly impact ourselves.

Studio View production of Waterfalls, Vermont







Why important to artist:

• My grandparents, George and Leota Sietsema have made significant gifts to the community.

• Millenium Park: Naming of Lake Leota, as well as significant property additions to the park.

• Spectrum and VanAndel Institute: Significant contributions in memory of my grandmother.

• Learning from the philanthropic legacy of my grandparents, George and Leota Sietsema, it is important to me to continue bringing it forward.

Millenium Park, Kent County Parks, Michigan







T’Alyne www.talyne.org [email protected]

Objectives and Goals:• Create an aesthetically pleasing series of 5

BEACONS to inspire and guide children and families as they enter and interact within the hospital environment.

• Accentuate the entrance of the hospital and create a restorative feeling and a sense place that is inspiring and fun.

• Provide visually dynamic objects that will enhance the architectural structure and environment.

• Design a series of “beacons” that will flood the space with color. Utilizing color to enhance the healing process in turn adding comfort to the environment.

• Foster solid collaborative partnerships with local businesses.







T’Alyne www.talyne.org [email protected]

Beacon-n1. A light house or signaling

buoy that produces a light to warn or guide ships.

2. A light on a hilltop or tower used as a signal to warn or guide.

3. A prominent hill on which fires were formerly lit as a signal.

4. Somebody or something that inspires or guides others.







Site Specifics for Project F: Beacons Create site-specific sculptures that mimic the wide

range of contour lines found in the surrounding landscapes, highlighting the views of the Grand River from the hospital.

Locate each sculpture on the site to maximize interactions and interplay with light.

Proposed sculptures will be a series of 5 beacons hung from the ceiling.

Each beacon is illuminated with strands of LED lights, and raised or lowered with a motorized pulley.

Beacon A: 6’Height x 13’Diameter x 40.83Circumference

Beacon B: 3’ H x 9’D x 28.274 C

Beacon C: 6’ H x 6’D x 18.85 C

Beacon D: 6’ H x 3’ D x 9.425 C







Materials Description:– Fabricate the frame structures out of anodized

aluminum and steel cable. The use of anodized aluminum provides a lightweight, long lasting, durable, and low maintenance material.

– Imbed image and color onto fiberglass using water based varnish, UV resins and pigments.

The use of fiberglass provides a durable lightweight, low maintenance, fire retardant material that introduces elegant color into the hospital environment.

– Led lights will hang in the interior of each Beacon. The use of Led lights will provide a long lasting illumination source that will engage the fiberglass, flooding the space with color. In addition, enhancing the Beacons visibility from the exterior of the building.

– Each Beacon will be motorized for ease of raising and lowering objects if Led lights ever need maintenance.





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Site views for Project F: Beacons

Front entrance

Main lobby Shop

Blueprint and placement of Beacons







Design Description:Simple use of elegant forms and color that will result in dynamic, whimsical, poetic

combinations that will appeal to audiences of all ages and embrace all cultures and religions.

Final sculptures will be developed by imbedding color and composition within the fiberglass and resin panels.

Exhibition View, Cathedral de St Jacques, France







educationMFA, Arizona State University, Summa Cum Laude,

Printmaking and FoundryBA, Arizona State University, Magna Cum Laude,

DrawingBFA, Arizona State University, Magna Cum Laude,

Printmaking

awards and residenciesFellowship, Vermont Studio Center, Johnson, VTHonorable Mention, Celebration, First United Methodist

Church, Grand Rapids, MIPeoples Choice, Celebration, First United Methodist

Church, Grand Rapids, MI

Fellowship, Virginia Creative Centre of Art, Amherst, VAArtist-in-Residence, Banff Centre, Banff, CanadaFrederick Meijer Botanical Garden and Sculpture Park,

Loeshner Award runner-upFellowship, Camac Centre d'Art, Marnay-sur-Seine,

Over the River and through the woods Fiberglass, varnish, pigment, steelWest Michigan Natural Storage exhibition. 85’ underground.







solo exhibitionsAnd then there was water, Open Concept Gallery, Michigan

Emerge, West MI Natural Storage-Gypsum Mines, Grand Rapids, Michigan

Moving Walls, Forest Hills Fine Arts Centre, Cascade, Michigan

One Year, Wellington Institute of Technology, Wellington, New Zealand

Merged, Gallery James Kaneko, Sacramento, California

In Sound, Conservatoire de Musique de Marcel Landowski, Troyes, France

daVinci Room (permanent installation), Camac , Marnay-sur-Seine, France

Gaps in Time, Eglise de Saint Jacques, Dival, France

New Works, Atelier Fourwinds, Aureille, France

Keep Quiet, Young Bickley Geiger Architects, Phoenix, Arizona

Studio View, Vermont







group exhibitionsArtprize, Huntington Corporate, Grand Rapids, MI

Lexington Art League, Lexington, KY

South Bend Museum of Contemporary Art, South Bend, IN

Heavy Metal, Waterstreet Gallery, Douglas, MI

Retrospective, Forest Hills Fine Arts Center, MI

Nooks and Corners, Cascade Gallery, MI

Trendsetters, Waterstreet Gallery, Douglas, MI

Small Works, Cascade Gallery, Cascade, MI

Festival 2007, Grand Rapids Art Museum, Grand Rapids, MI Juror : Roger Timmermanis

Governors Residence, UICA, Grand Rapids, MI

Regional Annual Exhibition, Muskegon Museum of Art, Muskegon, MI Juror : Dr Howard Risatti

Celebration, First United Methodist Church, Grand Rapids, MI

Festival 2005, Grand Rapids Art Museum, MI : Juror : Art Martin

86th Annual Regional Exhibition, Toledo Museum of Art, OH Jurors : Vince Castagnacci and Tarrance Corbin

Regional Juried Competition, Lansing Centre for the Arts, MI

Festival 2004, Grand Rapids Art Museum, MIUnderground Studio, Grand Rapids, MIBogena Galerie, St Paul de Vence, FranceGalerie Terre d'Art, St Paul de Vence, FranceCervini Haas Gallery, Scottsdale, AZEye Lounge, Icehouse, Phoenix, AZEye Lounge, Mesa Contemporary Centre for the Arts,

Mesa, AZArt Detour, Icehouse, Phoenix, AZDrawings in Sculpture, Step, Tempe, AZDesert Iron, Tempe Center Gallery, Tempe, AZNathan Cummings, Harry Wood Gallery, Tempe, AZ







public artAnd then there was water…Temporary Public Art, Open Concept Gallery, MILake Dr. Mural Project, Mixed Greens & Fred Bouma Co., Grand Rapids, MI

daVinci Room, Camac Centre D’Art, Marnay sur Seine, FranceArtstops, Grand Rapids MI in progress

Catholic Diocese, Grand Rapids, MI in progress







public collectionsMuseo De Arte Contemporanco, MexicoCarrillo Gil Mexico D.F., MexicoGrand Valley State University, MIWest Michigan Centre of Arts and Technology,

Grand Rapids, MI Kaiser Foundation, CAFondation Franck Tenot, FrancePole University, Vichy, France E.on Energie AG, Munich, GermanyPFE Prufungsgesellschaft fur Energieversorgunosunternehmen mbh, Munich, Germany

Alan Blau and Associates, Ltd., AZAlain Pourain PDV, Villenauxe la Grande,

FranceFirst United Methodist Church, Grand Rapids,

MI Lecocq Executive Offices Vichy, FrancePatricia Klinck, Ph.D., Alberta, CanadaCurtiss Legg, Ph.D., AZRichard R. Raubolt, Ph.D., MI Camac Centre d’Art, Marnay sur Seine, FranceArizona Country Club, Phoenix, AZMetro Health Hospital, Grand Rapids, MIHonorable George Heartwell, Mayor, City of

Grand Rapids, MIJoseph Jeup Furniture Headquarters, Grand

Rapids, MI







IMAGES: Site Specific examples of color and Composition

Johnson, Vermont Pine Cay Island, Caribbean

CAMAC Centre D’Art, FranceColor and composition inspired by the Seine River

All images representvarious bodies of water from Vermont, the Caribbean, and France.






Proposed site: Project F : Beacons T’Alyne www.talyne.org [email protected] IMAGES: Site Specific examples of Color and Composition

Amherst, Virginia Crabtree Falls, Blue Ridge Mountains Pine Cay Island, Caribbean, Ocean view at Frey home

Charlevoix, MichiganFall on the Frey Farm ponds Upper Pennisula, Michigan

Early Morning on private lake at the Frey family compound

All images Represent bodies of water and waterfalls fromVirginia, Caribbean, and NorthernMichigan.






Proposed site: Project F : Beacons T’Alyne www.talyne.org [email protected] IMAGES: Site Specific examples of Color and composition

Artprize 2009,Huntington Corporate, Grand Rapids, MI

Work created duringFellowship at VermontStudio Center, April 09

Images represent the cycle of water as I experienced the mountains and waterfallsduring snowmelt season in Vermont.







T’Alyne References:• Suny Monk, Director, Virginia Center of Creative Arts, Virginia154 San Angelo Dr

Amherst VA 24521 [email protected] 434-946-7236 Office 434. 946.9960

• Jean Yves Coffre, Director, CAMAC Centre D’Art, France1, Grande Rue

10400 Marnay sur Seine [email protected] 032-539-2061 Office 0663796054 cell

• Honorable George Heartwell, Mayor of Grand Rapids, [email protected]

• Robert Eleveld, Attorney, McGarry [email protected] 616-742-3500















Dan Carlson References:

• Grand Rapids Community Foundation: Exterior Signage

185 Oaks Ave SW

Roberta King- 616-454-1751 x 119

• Ada Township: Roselle Park observation Deck

Jim Ferro, Township planner 616-676-9191

• Xibitz: Grand Rapids Community Foundation Lobby sculpture: Eli Lilly & Co.

5809 Cross Roads Pkwy SW, Grand Rapids, Michigan

Joe Maxwell 616-247-3500

• James and Shirley Balk/ Hausen Balk Steel

1230 Monroe Ave NW 616-458-1414







Dave Huizenga References:

• Forest Hills Fine Arts Center, Grand Rapids

• David D. Hunting YMCA, Grand Rapids

• Cathedral Square Center, Grand Rapids

• Space Source - 169 Monroe, Grand Rapids

• 38 Commerce, Grand Rapids - under construction

• Herman Miller dealer showrooms: Boston, Philadelphia, Miami, St. Louis, Denver, Las Vegas, San Francisco

• Herman Miller manufacturing facility café venues and wall graphics: Spring Lake, Zeeland





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