New Name and New Look!
The Art in Public Places Committee, along with the City of Kettering team, have rebranded the public art program for the first time in it's history! CitySites is now Art in Public Places, and a new mission, vision and goals are guiding the future of the public art collection, alongside the City of Kettering's updated Strategic Plan, published in 2024.
Rosewood Arts Center Public Artwork
The Art in Public Places program is commissioning a new artwork by Sujin Lim, to be located at the entrance of Rosewood Arts Center. In 2023, over 30 artists responded to a RFP to create a permanent outdoor artwork at Rosewood Arts Center. Sujin Lim's proposal Silver Lining was selected due to it's playfulness, welcoming nature, and relationship to the landscaping, facility and the collection. The artwork is projected to be installed in 2025.
Sujin Lim was born in Seoul, Republic of Korea, and is based in Brooklyn, NY. She specializes in creating site-specific installations, sculptures, and public art. Her artistic journey has seen her hold five solo exhibitions in Korea and Switzerland, and her works have been selected for the BIENALSUR, International Biennial of Contemporary Art of the South at the MARCO Museum of Art, Buenos Aires, AR; the IV Moscow International Biennale for Young Art in the Museum of Moscow; and exhibitions at the Brooklyn Museum, USA,
Bauhaus-Museum, Neues Museum, Germany, and Seoul Museum of Arts, South Korea. Sujin Lim's talent has been acknowledged with the Contemporary Talents 9th Edition of the Francois Schneider Foundation in France. She has been selected for residencies at renowned institutions, including the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture, the International Studio & Curatorial Program (ISCP), the Bemis Center for Contemporary Arts, at the Changdong Studio run by the National Museum of Contemporary Art Korea (MMCA). Sujin has been commissioned to create public art projects for the cities of Santa Clarita, CA; Cedar Falls, IW; Decatur, GA; Richmond, VA; Denver, CO, and Ottawa, Canada, and for the Alexa Rose Foundation, ID; the Santa Cruz Museum of Art and History, CA.
Kettering Rocks! International Stone Symposium Artwork Maintenance
Through September and October 2023, a team of professional public art conservationists treated and cleaned the limestone sculptures of the 2002 Kettering Rocks! Stone Symposium. This was the first cleaning in over 20 years, and while the darkening of the stone is a normal part of the process of the material aging, the special treatment brightened the sculptures back up to how they looked several decades ago!
Questions on Artists, Artwork Locations or Other Information
Contact Rosewood Arts Center at 296-0294
