This web site is created by Jennifer Chenoweth, the Design Team Artist for the 7th Street Corridor Project in Austin, Texas.
It is a working site to communicate with the stakeholders and the Design Team what will guide decisions about art and design for the corridor.

Email Jennifer about the project and link to Fisterra Studio website to see her work.


The 7th Street Corridor Project creates many opportunities to bring art to our neighborhood. As part of the design team, my role is to identify locations for public art along 7th Street. My job was to:

  • choose eye-catching colors COLORS and patterns that will be built into the construction details,
  • help BUSINESS OWNERS find ARTISTS to create works (such as murals), paint the names of businesses on buildings in an artistic way, or make sculptures that become the signage for businesses,
  • identify functional art that local ARTISTS can create,
  • identify GATEWAYS along the corridor where public art can be proposed by ARTISTS, and
  • coordinate with the artist creating a public artwork for the retaining wall in front of Huston-Tillotson College.

"History: culture, nature and identity"

This theme reflects the Black, Hispanic, and artist cultures that thrive in the area and the local businesses that support our growth. By offering the opportunity for many small projects by different artists, I hope to let the individual artists’ voices tell the story of diversity. I recommend that each artist’s work should also represent stories of the neighborhood.

 

 

From the Central East Austin Neighborhood Plan, 2001:

"Goal 7: Respect the historic, ethnic and cultural character of the neighborhoods in Central East Austin."

"Goal 8: Enhance and enliven the streetscape."

From the Govalle/Johnston Terrace Combined Neighborhood Plan, 2003:

"Guideline 1.4: Incorporating locally produced art into commercial architecture brings the unique character of the neighborhood to its business district."

From the Holly Neighborhood Plan, 2001:

"Goal 7: Preserve the neighborhood's historical and cultural character."

"Action Item 7.1.1: Encourage local artists to create public art at parks, schools and East Austin libraries to visually promote the history and character of the neighborhood."

From the Rosewood Neighborhood Plan, 2001:

"Objective 1.3: Make the streetscapes in the neighborhood more attractive."

From the East Cesar Chavez Neighborhood Plan, 1999:

"Goal 3, Objective 2: Promote murals and other public art to reinforce our neighborhood identity."

From Sites of Memory: Perspectives on Architecture and Race,
edited by Craig E. Barton:

"Within the disciplines of architecture, landscape architecture, urban design, and cultural geography, there is an emerging body of theoretical, historical and design research which recognizes the capacity of the built environment to serve as a repository of our collective and individual cultural history and memory. Yet contemporary methodologies of design often ignore the power of the landscape to evoke the history and memory of place, homogenizing the diverse cultural forces resident in the landscape, and thus reinforcing a peculiar sense of collective amnesia."

Last updated March 31, 2006