There’s been a big brouhaha in Ann Arbor recently because the city’s public art fund decided to spend around $770,000 on a sculpture for the new ($47M) City Hall building. The sculpture will be by renowned storm water sculptor Herbert Dreiseitl, and advocates of the installation made much of the fact that Dreiseitl is the world’ s leader in integrating public art with proper techniques for storm water drainage.
Imagine my pleasure, then, when I saw this article in Nature about another one-of-a-kind public artist with scientific profiency.
James Acord is the only sculptor licensed to work with radioactive materials. Formally trained in nuclear physics, he tells Nature why he thinks contaminated nuclear sites should be marked for future generations and explains his obsession with the nuclear age.
via Access : Q&A: The art of transmutation : Nature.
Let’s get Mr. Acorn into Ann Arbor for a project at the decommissioned Ford Nuclear Reactor on North Campus. The budget starts at $770,000.
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