Fort Worth Public Art - Featured Project

FEATURED PROJECTS . . .

Hazel Harvey Peace Center For Neighborhoods

Houston artist Floyd Newsum applies his characteristically colorful and inviting painting style to a group of playful, three-dimensional scenes for the new Hazel Harvey Peace Center for Neighborhoods located at 818 Missouri Avenue. The Center will be the new home to the Code Compliance Department, Prosecutors Office, Community Relations Department, and the Fort Worth Neighborhood Police Office. The grand opening celebration took place on December 5, 2009 on site.

Installed in early September, the five suspended sculptures in For Better Life show individuals and families from the community happily engaged in healthy outdoor activities. The five sculptures are: a Ball Player, Family Dancing, Swimmer, Bicyclists, and Jump Rope.

Each sculpture is fabricated out of 1/8” aluminum, using a 2” hollow box-construction. After being welded and polished each was painted on both sides in colorful, high-gloss enamel colors. The sculptures range in size from 2 ½ feet by 3 ½ feet to 4 feet by 5 ½ feet, and are suspended on stainless steel rods from ceiling joists in the reception area. The supporting rods are painted to match the color of the rear reception area wall so that from certain angles, the figures appear to float on their own overhead.

About the Artist
Floyd Newsum was born in 1950 in Memphis, Tennessee. He received his Bachelor of Fine Arts from Memphis College of Art and his Masters in Fine Arts from the Tyler School of Art at Temple University in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

Floyd is a painter and printmaker with several successful public art projects under his belt. His colorful, figurative work can be found in many museum collections around the country, including the Philadelphia Museum of Art, the Museum of Fine Arts Houston and the Art Museum of South Texas in Corpus Christi. His work can be seen in the collections of Xavier University in New Orleans, Texas Southern University in Houston, the Atlanta Life Insurance Company in Atlanta, Georgia and at The University of Houston-Downtown where Floyd has been a professor of art for the last 30 years.


		FEATURED PROJECTS . . . Hazel Harvey Peace Center For Neighborhoods Houston artist Floyd Newsum applies his characteristically colorful and inviting painting style to a group of playful, three-dimensional scenes for the new Hazel Harvey Peace Center for Neighborhoods located at 818 Missouri Avenue. The Center will be the new home to the Code Compliance Department, Prosecutors Office, Community Relations Department, and the Fort Worth Neighborhood Police Office. The grand opening celebration took place on December 5, 2009 on site. Installed in early September, the five suspended sculptures in For Better Life show individuals and families from the community happily engaged in healthy outdoor activities. The five sculptures are: a Ball Player, Family Dancing, Swimmer, Bicyclists, and Jump Rope. Each sculpture is fabricated out of 1/8” aluminum, using a 2” hollow box-construction. After being welded and polished each was painted on both sides in colorful, high-gloss enamel colors. The sculptures range in size from 2 ½ feet by 3 ½ feet to 4 feet by 5 ½ feet, and are suspended on stainless steel rods from ceiling joists in the reception area. The supporting rods are painted to match the color of the rear reception area wall so that from certain angles, the figures appear to float on their own overhead. About the Artist Floyd Newsum was born in 1950 in Memphis, Tennessee. He received his Bachelor of Fine Arts from Memphis College of Art and his Masters in Fine Arts from the Tyler School of Art at Temple University in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Floyd is a painter and printmaker with several successful public art projects under his belt. His colorful, figurative work can be found in many museum collections around the country, including the Philadelphia Museum of Art, the Museum of Fine Arts Houston and the Art Museum of South Texas in Corpus Christi. His work can be seen in the collections of Xavier University in New Orleans, Texas Southern University in Houston, the Atlanta Life Insurance Company in Atlanta, Georgia and at The University of Houston-Downtown where Floyd has been a professor of art for the last 30 years.
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