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Artist/Creator (1)	Turrell, James (born 1941)
Artist/Creator (1).Nationality	American
Artist/Creator (1).Role	artist, sculptor
Title/Caption	Roden Crater Project
Site/Creative Center	Arizona (United States)
Date of Work	late 1970s and ongoing. Scheduled to be open to the public in 2011
Description of View	Aerial view from 22,000 feet elevation
Notes	Sponsor/Developer: The Skystone Foundation, NEA, Guggenheim Foundation, Museum of Northern Arizona, Dia Art Foundation, Arizona Commission on the Arts, MacArthur Foundation, and donations from the general public. Project Location: western edge of the Painted Desert, northern part of the state of Arizona. Project Description: Working with a 510,000-year-old volcanic cinder cone, the artist is creating an artwork which will serve as a kind of planetarium, from which visitors can observe celestial events and the patterns of light on the crater created by the sun, moon, stars and clouds. Photographs provided by the artist. According to the project sponsors, Turrell's Roden Crater Project, '...will deal with the physical, tactile presence of light inhabiting space...' The surface of this 600-foot-tall crater will not be altered from the exterior. The artist is presently creating a 12-foot diameter tunnel, 1035 feet long sloping gently up from the volcano's exterior to an opening at the volcano's top. The orientation of the tunnel will allow the moon to fall into exact alignment with it every 18.6 years, casting moonlight through its full extent and producing a moon image on a wall at the lower end. Similar imaging of the sun during the summer solstice will occur. The sensation of walking up into the sky will be produced as the visitor walks through the tunnel. The dome area will be sculpted to the shape of a parabolic dish to '...support and make malleable the perception of celestial vaulting'. Visitors will be able to move along the volcano's crater to the rim, where the Painted Desert and the geological history of the planet is evident throughout the landscape below. The curvature of the planet, the sky dome above, and the immense parabolic curve of the volcano's dish will provide the visitor with a sense of the earth's enormous scale. Project History: James Turrell initiated this project. Dr. E.C. Krupp, Director of the Griffith Observatory, and Richard Walker of the U.S. Naval Observatory calculated celestial events, some of which have been calculated for the next 12,000 years. The first one-third of the project will be completed by August of 1985. [Scheduled to be open to the public in 2011]
Technique/Process	architecture, sculpture, earthworks
Materials/Medium	earth and artifacts
Dimensions	Extinct cinder cone, Ht.: 600 ft.
Century	20th Century
Subject	Architecture, American Sculpture, American Sculpture, 20th Century Earthworks (sculpture) Public art Observatories Astronomy
Publisher	ART on FILE
Publisher.Location	ART on FILE. 1837 East Shelby St. Seattle, Washington 98112 (United States). www.artonfile.com
Set/Project Title	New Directions in Public Art: Part I
Set/Project Author(s)	ART on FILE, 2000
Reference Number	Art on File PAI-27(3)-2
Collection Title	Sculpture (Art and Art History Department images)
Collection Information	Collection administered by Visual Resources manager, Architecture Library (402) 472-1193
Copyright Information	http://contentdm.unl.edu/ah_copyright.html

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