Central Corridor light rail station art concepts:
Snelling Avenue, Stadium Village, and 4th and Cedar Street Stations
Roberto Delgado
Roberto Delgado
Delgado envisions using historic and current photographs
Fourth & Cedar Street Station
The theme is a unique canvas between tall buildings, capturing people and places around the station. The artist uses historic archival photographs and his own photo studies of the area to reflect the demographics of each station’s extended neighborhoods. Large cut-tiles of large photo silk-screened pictures – clearly visible from distances above, such as tall buildings – would be inserted into platform pavement. Communication and electrical cabinets would be clad in yellow brick with cut-tiles inserted into the cabinets in colors to be determined with input from community.
For all three stations, the artist will use a technique of photographs grouped together and applied to tiles via airbrush and photo silk-screen.
Snelling Avenue Station
The theme at the 4th and Cedar Station in downtown St. Paul is conceived by the artist as “a unique canvas between tall buildings, capturing people and places around the station.”
A theme of capturing people and places around the Snelling area is inspired by historic archival photographs and the artist’s own photo studies of the area. The color scheme will be fairly bright, vibrant colors as expressed in a community meeting with the artist. The artist proposes cut-tiles inserted in platform pavement and/or concrete light columns, cut-tiles inserted into platform knee walls or communications/electrical cabinets.
Stadium Village Station
A theme of capturing people and places around Stadium Village is inspired by historic archival photographs and the artist’s own photo studies of the area. He proposes cut-tiles inserted in platform pavement and/or concrete light columns, and communication and/or electrical cabinets clad in brick with cut-tiles inserted into cabinets in colors of the Stadium Village Business Association and University of Minnesota.