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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
a recent project 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 recently 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 a proposal for 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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