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Sacramento Artists Asking Whether City Funding Should Be Kept Local
Tuesday, May 18, 2021 | Sacramento, CA
Kim Garza and Erik Prince under California Cathedral outside the convention center in Downtown Sacramento April 30, 2021.
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On the east end of the Sacramento Convention Center one recent weekday morning, orange-vested workers installed custom-cut wood planks around a towering cylinder. They’re building a sculpture that will look like a large tree.
It’s one of five new public art pieces being installed around the complex this summer. Sacramento-based landscape architect Kim Garza was one of the four commissioned artists.
“All the wood members ungulate in kind of form and so they will dip in and out. I really wanted this to be acknowledgement of climate change in the Golden State, but also to have a moment of reflection,” says Garza, describing the piece as the workers use a scissor lift to