The Metro Regional Connector Project connects the Metro L Line (Gold) to 7th Street/Metro Center Station in downtown Los Angeles, allowing passengers to transfer to the A Line (Blue), E Line (Expo), B Line (Red) and D Line (Purple), bypassing Union Station.
The Metro Regional Connector Art Program encompasses a range of projects. Seven artists have been commissioned to create site-specific, integrated artworks for the three new stations.
STATION ARTISTS
Little Tokyo/Arts District
- Clare Rojas, Harmony (in progress)
- Audrey Chan, Will Power Allegory (in progress)
Historic Broadway
- Andrea Bowers, Untitled (in progress)
- Mark Steven Greenfield, Red Car Requiem (in progress)
- Clarence Williams, Migrations (in progress)
Grand Av Arts/Bunker Hill
- Ann Hamilton, Untitled (in progress)
- Pearl C. Hsiung, High Prismatic (in progress)
- Mungo Thomson, Negative Space (STScI-2015-02) (in progress)
IN THE COMMUNITY
Regional Connector artists are engaging downtown communities through a range of activities, such as art-making workshops, artist talks, events at local schools and public performances that connect to the artwork. These activities are intended to inform the artists’ design processes and/or build public awareness of the future artworks at Regional Connector stations. In addition, local youth-designed temporary murals were created and later installed on the construction site fences at Historic Broadway Station and Grand Av Arts/Bunker Hill Station.
ART ADVISORY GROUP
| Charles Gaines Artist (panelist) | Escott Norton Executive Director Los Angeles Historic Theatre Foundation | Morgan Jaybush Sykes Project Manager Omgiving |
| Nick Griffin Vice President of Economic Development Downtown Center Business Improvement District | Erica Overskei Program Manager Arts Brookfield | Lanka Tattersall former Assistant Curator Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles (panelist) |
| Leslie Ito former President and CEO Japanese American Cultural & Community Center (panelist) | Renee Petropoulos Artist (panelist) | Daisy Villa Artist |
| Gabrielle Newmark Founder Swamp Pink Landscape Architecture Program Director Industrial District Green | Cheyanne Sauter Executive Director Art Share L.A. | Qris Yamashita Graphic Designer |
| Ming Ng Vice President, Community Engagement Music Center | Ed Schad Associate Curator and Publications Manager The Broad |
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