Nine transportation engineering utility cabinets in the Mills 50 District have been transformed into “art boxes”.
The artists & their locations are: Danny Rodriguez – Colonial & Mills; Lauren Galant – Colonial & Hyer; Michael Fajardo – Mills & Lake Highland; Lee Vandergrift – Colonial & Ferncreek; Harry Glotfelty – Colonial & Shine and Mills & Marks; Genevieve Bernard – Mills & Virginia. The box at Colonial & Summerlin was painted by ESE students from Edgewater High School.
The judging panel was composed of Frank Holt, former Public Art Manager for the City and now Executive Director of the Mennello Museum; Sarah Kelly, former Chair of the DDB and member of the Public Art Advisory Board; Curtis Carswell, owner of the Great Escape Frame and Art Shop; Diane Martens and Janet Walker, artists and Jeff Thompson, senior landscape architect for Walt Disney World and chair of the Mills 50 Design committee.