Artist, Mikyoung Kim, Selected for Port Everglades Master Plan
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9/27/2007 9:37:07 AM
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Mikyoung Kim of Brookline, Massachusetts has been chosen to create a Public Art Master Plan for Port Everglades.
BROWARD COUNTY, FL – The Broward Cultural Division’s Public Art and Design Program is proud to announce the selection of artist Mikyoung Kim to conduct an in-depth study of future opportunities for Public Art and Design in the context of the major master planning effort underway at Port Everglades.
Mikyoung Kim of Brookline, Massachusetts, is an environmental artist and landscape architect whose work ranges from sculptural installations to large scale master plans. She received her BA from Oberlin College with a major in sculpture and a minor in piano performance, and her master of landscape architecture from the Harvard Graduate School of Design. She has taught environmental design at the Rhode Island School of Design since 1994 where she has been the chairman of the Urban Design Department since 2005.
With broad experience in urban design, sculpture and music, she is known for projects that encourage the multi-sensory experience of interior and exterior art environments. She has created arts master plans for SeaTAC Airport in Seattle, WA, the US. Food and Drug Administration in White Oak, MD and the city of Chapel Hill, N.C., and is the recipient of national and regional awards from the American Institute of Architects and the American Society of Landscape Architects.
In order to develop the Port Art Master Plan, the artist will conduct research, interact with the community, Port Everglades staff and constituents and agency Master Plan consultants and write recommend art opportunities, locations budgets and schematic time lines.
The Port Everglades Master Plan is intended to assess the potential for creating integrated and site-specific artworks as a component of future projects such as construction or renovation of cruise terminals and other facilities in the context of this major master planning effort. “People depend on the Port, so this is the right direction for us to move in,” says Mayor Josephus Eggelletion when discussing the 20-year, $2 billion expansion plan at Port Everglades, of which this art commission will be a part. The plan must also take into consideration possible overlap with the Convention Center master plan and the potential transportation system that will connect Port Everglades to the Fort Lauderdale-Hollywood International Airport. As one of South Florida’s leading economic engines, Port Everglades is an important gateway for international trade and cruise vacations.
For further details on the project, contact Claire Garrett, project manager at 954-357-7236 or e-mail cgarrett@broward.org. |
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