Get in Motion for Art in Motion
On Thursday, February 4th at Natasha’s Bistro
From 5:30-10:00.
Food and music:
The Positive Movement from 5-7 for happy hour
Water with vocalist Vera Soules for dinner from 8-10
WUKY’s Anne Deck will MC the event
We’ll be raffling off items from your favorite local Lexington businesses.
Suggested donation: $10-25, sold at the door.
Our second art shelter design contest
We are pleased to partner with the historic Aylesford Place Neighborhood Association, the University of Kentucky, the Lexington Transit Authority (LexTran) and LexArts.
Art in Motion and our partners are offering a $2,000 design prize for an innovative, sustainable transit shelter design that integrates living plants. The shelter will serve both as bus stop with seating and shelter for riders and as public art that incorporates vegetation.
The shelter will serve both LexTran riders and University of Kentucky students.
Professional architects, engineers, landscape designers, sculptors and artists are eligible.
Students under the supervision of relevant professionals are also eligible.
Design contest criteria provides budget information, design details and requirements for submission.
The submission deadline is February 28, 2010 and the winner will be announced April 14, 2010.
Art in Motion Awarded a Congestion Mitigation and Air Quality Grant
Art in Motion, together with LexTran were awarded $150,000 by the Commonwealth of Kentucky through the federally funded Congestion Mitigation and Air Quality Program for the LexTran/Art in Motion "smART" shelter project.
Newtown Pike Art Shelter
The Bluegrass art shelter slated for Newtown Pike was awarded $10,000 from LFUCG Corridors Committee. We are currently seeking an additional $7,000 to fully fund this project:
East End Artstop
Artstop, Lexington’s second artistically designed bus shelter, was dedicated August 2nd. The shelter is located in downtown Lexington’s East End at the corner of Third Street and Elm Tree Lane across from the Lyric Theater.
Bottlestop Art Shelter
Lexington’s first artistically designed bus shelter
Euclid Avenue Art Shelter
UK will work in partnership with Art in Motion to build an art shelter on
Euclid Ave. Bob Wiseman, head of Facilities Construction at UK, has pledged
at least $10,000 for the structure. The Aylesford neighborhood association,
represented by John Michler (johnmichler@gmail.com) and Greg Guenthner
(gguenth@email.uky.edu), was instrumental in negotiating this deal in
response to neighborhood concerns about the large utility poles going up
around campus.