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Gloria
Bornstein has extensive experience in the design and development of
public spaces and urban streetscapes. She brings a range of experiences
in integrating art into public infrastructure projects and identifying
locations for art opportunities. She is interested in creating a
balance between broad concepts and the particular- through design
details that give voice to the hidden, creating layers of meaning.
For example, in Walk
to the Mountain, she designed the 9th Avenue
Streetscape for the University of Washington’s
Harborview Hospital with SiteWorkshop. Fractal
patterns are cast and etched in imbedded bronze
plaques, representing the forest floor and the
body’s circulation system. The artwork
also acknowledges the changing view of Mt. Rainier
on the three-block campus. These “energy
lines” are on an axis with the mountain,
reframing the pedestrian hospital experience
to a walk to the
mountain.
 In
her art plan for the Seattle
Center International Fountain and Park Area and
artwork, Neototems, the whales are symbols for the journeys of diverse
people passing through the place and based in a Native-American myth of
whales swimming beneath the site. On an intimate level, children
swarming the sculptures complete the artwork.
Based on the above myth, she
developed the Artwork Concept for the Trail,
Connecting Elliott Bay and South Lake Union,
titled The Potlatch Trail. The project description
recommends a design for unified and disparate
elements for a proposed city pedestrian/bike
route which includes an abundance of living
material, and abundance of poetry and interactive
audio-interpretive material that delights visitors.
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 The
artist completed the art plan, Different
Voices, One Community, for Fire Station
10 Center for the Office of Arts and Cultural
Affairs, Seattle. Working with community stakeholders,
she identified art locations, developed budgets,
and selected the artists. In addition, she developed
the artwork Sentinels,
a multi-sculptural environment.
The artist developed the
Puyallup
Commuter Rail arts plan with stakeholders
and design professionals to revitalize the historic
downtown area. The team developed a design for
the depot and shelters based in the historic
station’s arts and crafts architecture,
considered parking and transitional spaces,
and provided locations for local artists to
exhibit their art in a sculpture garden on the
platform.
Experiences
that enrich her contributions to the planning include her past
experience in theater design-as performance artist and
interdisciplinary faculty member in the theater department of Cornish
College. She views designing for the built environment as a large
mis-en-scene, involving interactive elements of lighting, form,
sound-text and audience. In another capacity at the University of
Washington, she teaches Site-analysis in the Public Art Program, an
interest she brings to her projects.
As arts planner, Ms. Bornstein
is interested in developing interactive environments
that consider the body as it moves from one
building, one space to another. Her art plans
and artworks are threshold interpretive experiences
that capture the soul of the place.
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