VISTA

Whitman Elementary School, Richland, Washington
2017
Colored pencils, wood, paint, UV coating
5.5’ x 25.5’ x 2”

Commissioned by Washington State Arts Commission, for Whitman Elementary in Richland, Vista features thousands of color pencils spanning one central stairwell. Pencils are cut and glued into birch and maple geometric frames. Hundreds of kindergartners through fifth-graders poured their stories into this sculpture. Inspired by their own impressions of rivers, shrub-steppe, mountains, and hills, children learn to cherish the Columbia River Basin lifelong.