Anchorage Art on the Street

#12  'SEWARD'S MONUMENT'    Artist: Gerald Conaway
  Location: Old City Hall (Fourth Avenue between E and F streets)
  Some elements that Wm Seward purchased: a bear, sunshine & the chemical symbol for natural gas
#13  'BALTO'    Artist: Jacques and Mary Regat
  Location: Fourth Avenue and D Street
  This bronze Balto is just waiting to run, he embodies the spirit of all mushers and lead dogs.
#14  'THE SAVE'    Artist: Shala Dobson and Jim Dault
  Location: Downtown Fire Station 1 (Fourth Avenue and Barrow Street)
  Symbolizes a firefighter's chief goal - to save lives.  Firefighters can see it on their way out of the firehouse.
#15  'ASCEND'    Artist: Barbara Yawit and Andy Daoust
  Location: Downtown Fire Station 1, south side of the building
  Two steel and fused-glass ladders stretch upward, the glass appears copper or blue (fire or water).
#16  'BEAR AND RAVEN'    Artist:  Hugh McPeck
  Location: E Street Terrace (Fourth Avenue and E Street)
  Based on childhood stories, here comes cute and funny in bronze - rub the bear's belly for good luck.
#17  'AURORA'    Artist:  Keith Appel
  Location: Old Federal Building (Fourth Avenue between G and F streets)
    The angular metal sculpture that glows red and green at night on the Federal Building lawn.
#18  'ATTAINING BALANCE WITHIN'    Artist:  Lee Wallace and Edwin DeWittt
  Location: Nesbett Courthouse (825 W. Fourth Ave.)
    Traditional Haida  totems titled "Eagle and Giant Clam" and "Raven Stealing the Moon and Stars" 
#19  'IN SEARCH OF TRUTH'    Artist:  Susie Qimmiqsak Bevins-Ericsen
  Location: Inside - Nesbett Courthouse Lobby (825 W. Fourth Ave.)
   Inupiat figures observe whether the ancestral values - truth, justice and mercy - are being upheld.
#20  'BEAR SCULPTURE'    Artist: Homer sculptor Mike Sirl
  Location: Boney Courthouse (Fourth Avenue and K Street)
  These Cor-Ten steel bruins, placed in the landscaping, symboliize natural family, love and protection.
#21  'THE LAST BLUE WHALE'    Artist:  Josef Princiotta
  Location: Carr-Gottstein Building (K Street between Third and Fourth Ave)
  A 30-foot bronze blue whale with a boat diving below, just to put man and beast on equal footing.
 
© Artists Alaska 2007       design by Pam      July 2007