Spokane International Airport Art Projects
As part of the development and update of Spokane International Airport, the Spokane Arts Commission and the Spokane Airport Board developed plans for public art in the airport. The airport is the “front door” to the region, welcoming and serving the 3 million plus passengers coming and going from the region each year.
T.C. Quinn
T.C. Quinn's expertise is in acrylic, oil, watercolor and pastel painting, cartooning, advertising layout, editorial illustration, and mural painting. In Spokane, his murals have livened up several buildings and walls in the Hillyard, West Central, Latah Valley, and Browne's Addition neighborhoods. His most noted outdoor mural to-date is the marmot mural he painted at the Division Street and Sprague Avenue intersection, featured in Ranger Rick magazine. Aside from his art, Quinn has been an art instructor at Spokane Art School, Corbin Art Center, and Spokane Community College. Quinn holds an A.A. from the Art Institute of Seattle in advertising layout and editorial illustration and a B.A. in Art History, minor in Fine Art from Gonzaga University.
T.C. Quinn has created a mural painted in acrylic, which extends from floor to ceiling and is the full width of the wall in Concourse C. The mural represents an aerial view of Spokane's first airport circa 1929 and Spokane's first famous refueling plane, the Spokane Sun-God, the first airplane to make a non-stop transcontinental round-trip flight.
For more information about T.C. Quinn, please visit his website at http://www.quinntheartist.com/
Ken Yuhasz
Ken Yuhasz’s work is based on the ideas that utilize found objects in an effort to re-create, or at least suggest, moments of his life. His approach to art is largely based on his experience in designing, building, and repairing components of appliances, bicycles, automobiles, houses, and anything else that he needed to fix or improve. In Spokane, Yuhasz owns and operates a design studio, Acme Glass Works, where he produces neon signs and art. Yuhasz studied at Rio Hondo College in California and the Neon Art School in Oregon and credits his glass mentors Glenn Walters and Bob Williams, both of Spokane for his technical prowess.
Ken Yuhasz has created an appliance of unusual size. His flying Aer•O•Toaster, has a fourteen foot wingspan and is made out of aluminum, glass, fiberglass, and neon, and is installed adjacent to the baggage claim area and escalator in the C Concourse. This work is an oversized version of his light-hearted sculptures made from actual appliances.
For more information about Ken Yihasz, please visit his website at http://www.acmeglassworks.com/
Louise Kodis
Louise Kodis' banners, mobiles, and fabric works are known not only locally, but nationally. Her work can be seen at Boise International Airport; Santa Rosa County Health Facility in Florida; University of Oregon; University of Utah; Unitarian Universalist Church at Shelter Rock in New York; University of Wisconsin; Fashion Plaza in North Brunswick, New Jersey; Lake Mead Library in Nevada; and she has done works at The Northwest Museum of Arts and Culture, Spokane County Libraries, KSPS Public Television, and Shriners Children's Hospital in Spokane.
Louise Kodis will brighten the airport rotunda with her work "Conversations Between Clouds." Her design presents a flock of alluring, complex, three dimensional floating shapes suspended under the ceiling of the rotunda. The shapes suggest dreams, ideas, and facts about flying and the visual details of our thoughts as we fly or anticipate flying. In the construction of 'Conversations' Kodis will use bamboo rod, curved acrylic rod, colored and textured silks and synthetic fabrics. These three-dimensional fiber sculptures will be suspended at dynamic angles to imply movement and bring a lively energy to the installation.
Steven Vallentyne Adams
Steven Vallentyne Adams began working with glass in 1969 at the University of Idaho. After graduating with a degree in Architecture, it was clear that his interest in glass would mold his life. After more studies at Washington State University and at Pilchuck Glass School, Steve moved his studio to Spokane and became the owner of Adams Glass Works. His work varies from functional objects to sculpture. Some of his most famous glass installations can be seen at Fire Station #1, Hillyard Public Library, and the Spokesman-Review Building in Spokane.
Adams drew upon the harrowed fields and rolling hills of the Palouse and the water currents of the Spokane River and Latah Creek for inspiration in the fabrication of kiln cast glass panels in the A/B Concourse baggage claim area.
