The Ann Arbor Public Art Commission was founded in 1998.
AAPAC’s mission is to bring to the City of Ann Arbor public art that improves the
aesthetic quality of public spaces and structures, provides for cultural and
recreational opportunities, contributes to local heritage, stimulates economic
activity, and promotes the general welfare of the community.
Public Art in Ann Arbor
Highlights
Urban Configurations • Decorative metal grates • 4th and Washington Parking Structure
Sponsored by the Downtown Public Art Committee and the Commission on Art in Public Places
Irina Koukhanova
Untitled • Stoneware panels • 4th and Washington
Parking Structure
Sponsored by the Downtown Public Art Committee and the
Commission on Art in Public Places
Barron Naegel and Yiu-Keung Lee
Frames • Glass tile mosaic mural • 4th and Washington Parking Structure
Sponsored by the Downtown Public Art Committee and the Commission on Art in Public Places
Michael Hall
Umbororo Crossing • 2008 Golden Paintbrush winner
Temporary installation • Ann Arbor City Hall
Elshafei Dafalla Mohamed
Festifools • 2007 Golden Paintbrush winner
Mark Tucker and Shoshana Hurand
Photo courtesy Myra Klarman, myraklarman.com
Stainless steel sculpture • Donated by McKinley and Associates
Restored and relocated to Pittsfield Township Library Branch
David Lee Brown
Ant Alley • Off east side of Maynard Street
Begob • Steel, painted red • University of Michigan Lurie Engineering Center
Gift of the Engineering Class of 1945 and NROTC Classes starting 1942
Alexander Liberman
Imagine/Align • Community-based art installation
University of Michigan Nichols Arboretum
Susan Skarsgard
TreeFORMS
West Park , Ann Arbor, Michigan 2011
Travis Pelletier
Fairy Doors • 2006 Golden Paintbrush winner
Jonathan B. Wright
Collaborators: Peaceable Kingdom • Voila • The Ark • Selo/Shevel • Sweetwaters • Red Shoes
Allmendinger Park Pavilion
To be completed November 2012
Mary Thiefels
Great Lakes
Ecosystems
Mosaic Murals
2009
Golden
Paintbrush
Winner
University of
Michigan
Matthaei
Botanical
Gardens
Julia
Hanansen
and 47
volunteers
of all ages
Ten • Hand-cut glass mosaic mural • 322 E. Liberty Street
Commissioned by Denali Development Group
David Chung
Mickey Mouse
Parking Meter
Sidewalk
Paintings
Stenciled faces were
strategically positioned
under shadows cast from
downtown parking meters
Originally created in 1985.
Chris Dunn
Chris died in 1986. Friends
and family restored the
paintings in later years.
Pencil drawing: Elizabeth Postmus,
courtesy the Ann Arbor Observer
Wave Field • Earth and grass • UM FrancoisXavier Bagnoud Building • 1995
Commissioned by the Association FXB in
memory of Bagnoud and gift of his mother
Maya Lin
Municipal Center • 2012
Commissioned by Ann Arbor Public Art
Commission
Herbert Dreiseitl
Car spotted
on
North Campus
Mott Children’s Hospital
Ann Arbor, Michigan
2012
Paul Villinski
Flame of Wisdom
Stainless Steel
Northwest corner of
Biomedical Science
Research Building
Gift of the
Kaufman family
Leonardo Nierman
The Cube “Endover” • Cor-Ten Steel, painted black • UM Regents Plaza
Gift of the Engineering Class of 1965 and the artist
Tony Rosenthal
Enchanted Beanstalk • 2012 Golden Paintbrush winner
Mott Children’s and Van Voigtlander Women’s Hospital, UM Medical Center
Adhesive vinyl on window glass.
Jim Cogswell
Enchanted Beanstalk • 2012 Golden Paintbrush winner
Mott Children’s and Van Voigtlander Women’s Hospital, UM Medical Center
Adhesive vinyl on window glass.
Jim Cogswell
Enchanted Beanstalk • 2012 Golden Paintbrush winner
Mott Children’s and Van Voigtlander Women’s Hospital, UM Medical Center
Adhesive vinyl on window glass.
Jim Cogswell
Sidewalk Chalk
Drawings
2012
Golden Paintbrush
Winner
Downtown
Ann Arbor
•
David Zinn
David Zinn
David Zinn
Sunday Morning in Deep Waters • Bronze • University of Michigan Ingalls Mall
Gift of Charles Baird
Carl Milles
David’s Books Mural • East Liberty • 1982
Richard Wolk
Corbels, UM Law Quad 1923-1924
Ulysses Ricci and Angelo Zari
Mary Thiefiels
Arch • Steel sculpture
Restored and reinstalled at Sculpture Plaza, 4th Avenue and Catherine
David Heberling
Coal Hopper, Detroit and Mackinaw #5732 • Depot Street
Salvaged from Durand, Michigan and reinstalled on property
that was formerly the Stabler Coke and Coal Yard
First Martin
Hob Nob • Aluminum, painted black • University of Michigan Space Research Bldg.
Gift of Jagdish C. and Saroj Janveja
Clement Meadmore
City and the Forest • Mural • North Main Street Railroad Underpass
Commissioned by Peter Allen and Associates
Mary Thiefels • Treetown Murals
Summaries of Arithmetic Through Dust, Including Writing Not Yet Printed • 1992
Aluminum and Steel, painted white • University of Michigan H. H. Dow Building
Gift of Engineering Class of 1933
Alice Aycock
Amococo
10,000-square-foot inflatable “luminarium • 2011
Architects of Air