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Artist/Creator (1)	Holt, Nancy Louise (born 1938)
Artist/Creator (1).Nationality	American
Artist/Creator (1).Role	artist, sculptor, designer
Artist/Creator (2)	Walker, Peter (born 1932)
Artist/Creator (2).Nationality	American
Artist/Creator (2).Role	landscape architect
Title/Caption	Dark Star Park
Site/Creative Center	Arlington County, Virginia (United States)
Date of Work	completed 1984
Description of View	Detail of view through hole in sphere showing another sphere framed by hole
Notes	Sponsor/Developer: private contributions, Arlington County and the National Endowment for the Arts. Project Description: This 2/3-acre artist-designed park, located between two busy arterials, serves as the southern entry to Rosslyn, and includes five large gunite spheres or 'dark stars', an earth berm with tunnels, a pond, several towers, lawn and pathways. This project was a design solution to a trash-strewn easement. Nancy Holt took charge of the 2/3-acre site and created an integrated work consisting of earthen forms, five large gunite spheres or Dark Stars, ponds, poles, walkways and seating areas. The lawn captures the natural elements of the site and the relationship of the sky, sun and earth. A unique aspect of this artwork is the simulated shadow patterns of the spheres and poles on the traffic island. The shadow patterns were inlaid in asphalt, and line up with the real shadows on the exact day and time when William Henry Ross acquired the land that became Rosslyn. Dark Star Park serves as a southern entrance to Rosslyn. A modern high rise office building overlooks the park to the north. Project History: Dark Star Park is the result of an alliance among local and federal agencies and the private sector. Planning began in 1977, when the site developer, Theodore Gould, granted an easement to Arlington County as part of a development plan to erect several office buildings. The county contacted the National Endowment for the Arts and other private financial sources, to help in supporting an artwork for the area. Nancy Holt was selected by a panel of local and national art experts, who reviewed the work of forty artists before making their final selection. She was involved in the beginning design phase and became both artist and principal designer of the park. Her expanded role was met with some initial hesitation on the part of the building developers. However, meetings with Kaempfer, Parker, Jeffries and landscape architect Peter Walker resolved any questions about Holt's abilities, and the project was accepted. Kaempfer even increased the park budget by $50,000 because of his enthusiasm for the plan. The project took five years to complete. Project cost: $250,000.
Technique/Process	sculpture, landscape architecture
Materials/Medium	gunite (air-sprayed concrete) spheres, earth, sod, stone dust, stone masonry, asphalt, steel poles, water, landscape plantings
Dimensions	2/3rds of an acre of land
Century	20th Century
Related Persons	Artist/Creator (1) also appears as Nancy Holt.
Subject	Sculpture, American Sculpture, 20th Century Public art Landscape architecture Parks (recreation areas) Art parks Spheres (geometric figures)
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-1(7)-7
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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