Current Installations on Display

Public Art Projects at ARTS DISTRICT Liberty Station

 

Current Public Art on Display at ARTS DISTRICT Liberty Station

Installations at the Station

ARTIST: Kline Swonger
INSTALLATION NAME: Water & Words
LOCATION: Artchway between Barracks 2 and 3
INSTALLED: December 2023
DESCRIPTION: This project is inspired by water, writing, and light. Words associated with water were collected from community members. Cast light and shadow ebbs and flows within the space, revealing and concealing the words during different times of day. The intention is to invite viewers to contemplate their connection with the Sa

n Diego waters and reflect upon the complexities of water. “One of the aspects I enjoyed the most about this project was connecting with people of all ages and hearing their stories and associations with water.”

 

ARTIST: Scarlett Baily
INSTALLATION NAME: Home
LOCATION: Artchway between Barracks 15 and Barracks 16
INSTALLED: October 2023
DESCRIPTION:Home, a hand-painted, site-specific 2,535 square foot mural bridges the history of the Naval Training Center with regional indigenous maritime culture. Native flora and fauna stage the celebration of San Diego’s heritage and acknowledge the generations of life that have called Point Loma home. Hapai is located on the peninsula and means the people’s water in Kumeyaay. This vibrant landscape invites you to revel in the awe of this incredible place we call Home.

 

ARTIST: Cat Chiu Phillips
INSTALLATION NAME: Tied
LOCATION: Barracks 5 facing North Promenade
INSTALLED: December 2022
DESCRIPTION: Tied blends traditional rigging and knotting techniques with various fiber art techniques as a nod to US Navy’s seamanship training. It pays honor to the Naval Training Center’s historical significance and its continued impact as a bustling community space of today.

 

ARTIST: TrevorAmery
INSTALLATION NAME: Archive & Witness
LOCATION: In front of the Dick Laub NTC Command Center
INSTALLED: December 2021
DESCRIPTION: This piece takes the form of an abstracted nurse log (a fallen tree in a forest) because of the poetic role it plays in the ecosystem. Through the nurse log’s decomposition and decay, it provides ecological facilitation to seedlings, a home to animals and insects, and a nourishing environment for the growth of myriad species over time. The fallen tree is not the end of a life cycle; it is a transformation as well as a beginning.

 

ARTIST: The AjA Project/Josemar Gonzalez, Diana Cervera
INSTALLATION NAME: Transcending Perception
LOCATION: Between THE LOT and Dance Place
INSTALLED: October 2020
DESCRIPTION: The piece is a series of doors composed of a variety of layers placed strategically, juxtaposing the images and narrative of communities that have been historically silenced and or underrepresented by the media. The piece invites the viewer to question their perception and what factors come to influence and inform it. During the day the doors will stand as a monument for these stories and communities inviting the audience to question their perception as they walk through the doors. At night, they will glow and project colors, shapes, and narrative into the surrounding landscape.

ARTIST: Miki Iwasaki, San Diego, CA
INSTALLATION NAME: Facetime
LOCATION: Sybil Stockdale Rose Garden outside Dick Laub NTC Command Center, between Building 200 and Building 201, near Shop Mingei and Café Mingei
INSTALLED:
August 2019
DESCRIPTION:
This installation will contain three sculptures incorporating steel and wooden bench elements, representing the universal, primal need for shelter and spaces for face-to-face conversation.

ARTIST: Jason Xavier Lane, San Diego, CA
INSTALLATION NAME: Tessellation #1
LOCATION: Sybil Stockdale Rose Garden outside Dick Laub NTC Command Center, between Building 200 and Building 201, near Shop Mingei and Café Mingei
INSTALLED: September 2019
DESCRIPTION: This sculpture is influenced by craft and design in the San Diego region, past and present. A sculptural monolith clad in three-dimensional, hand-cast concrete tiles will be set beneath two existing magnolia trees. A bench of hand-hewn timber is inset within the sculpture to reflect Liberty Station’s original 1920’s grand post-and-beam roof construction and the legacy of naval shipbuilding.

ARTIST: Michelle Montjoy, Oceanside, CAA Dime To Call Home
INSTALLATION NAME: A Dime to Call Home
LOCATION: Archways along the North Promenade
INSTALLED: October 2019
DESCRIPTION: A collection of sea bags cast in cement, revealing bits of soft clothing and “arms” knitted from nautical rope reaching up from each bag, this installation represents the transformations new recruits experience upon entering the military and its contrasts to home life. The artist would like to add a public engagement element to the installation by knitting on tabletop looms or casting a small time capsule of sea bags with school groups.

 

ARTIST: Hugo Crosthwaite, Tijuana, Mexico
INSTALLATION NAME: Column A and Column B: A Continual Mural Narrative Performance
LOCATION: Arcades Barracks 14
INSTALLED: August 2018
DESCRIPTION: This mural project is about presenting muralism as performance. Crosthwaite improvised a mural in public for 16 days. During that time, the public was invited to see him work and to ask questions. The project is a performance about the creative process and about the nature of art. It’s also a celebration of draftsmanship.

 

Liberty Station Public Art

These projects are in partnership with NTC Foundation and organizations.

 

ARTIST: James Armenta
INSTALLATION NAME: Untitled
IN PARTNERSHIP WITH: Intuit
LOCATION:
 Between Moniker General and The Presley
INSTALLED: December 2020
DESCRIPTION: The mural merges classic nautical iconography, uses maritime signal flags flanked by dazzle camouflage to communicate a message to viewers. For many years maritime signal flags have been used as a system of communication amongst vessels. Dazzle camouflage was a pattern used by ships in both World Wars. The bold, staggered stripes obfuscate a ship’s direction and speed from enemies.  This piece was made possible through a partnership with Intuit and NTC Foundation.

 

ARTIST: Brad Howe
INSTALLATION NAME: Afoxe
LOCATION: Next to Building 176
INSTALLED:
July 2016
DESCRIPTION:
One of America’s wittiest and most versatile makers of public art, a direct stylistic and spiritual inheritor of Alexander Calder and Joan Miro, a sculptor of broad formal range but consistently expansive spirit.

 

 

ARTIST: Jeffery Laundeslager, Encinitas, CA
INSTALLATION NAME: Fuji San
LOCATION: Near Building 175
INSTALLED:
April 2011
DESCRIPTION: 
The graceful kinetic pieces have been described as visual tai-chi.  The artist’s work is in many private collections as well as numerous public sites.

 

 

 

ARTIST: Victor Ving
INSTALLATION NAME: Greetings from the U.S. Naval Training Station
IN PARTNERSHIP WITH:
McMillin
LOCATION: 2875 Dewey Road
INSTALLED: 
November 2016
DESCRIPTION:
Inspired by the vintage “Large Letter” postcard art popularized during the 30’s-50’s. This mural is the modern interpretation of an iconic military postcard and celebrates Liberty Station’s naval history and recent resurgence as one of San Diego’s top destinations for art, life and the culture in the city.

ARTIST: Jonathan Allen
INSTALLATION NAME: USS Brave
IN PARTNERSHIP WITH:
McMillin
LOCATION: 2770 Historic Decatur Road next to Barracks 14
INSTALLED:
2016
DESCRIPTION:
Every piece of wood has its own character, flaws, perfections, details and personality.  The future is made by the hands of the brave and this is a fitting installation that honors the navy heritage of NTC and those who served.

ARTIST: Mary BuckmanTerra Cotta sculpture of two women
INSTALLATION NAME: Sisterhood
IN PARTNERSHIP WITH: 
Women’s Museum of California
LOCATION: Between Barracks 15 and 16
INSTALLED: 
2016
DESCRIPTION:
This terra cotta sculpture represents the connection between Kumeyaay women and western women.  The Kumeyaay is the collective name for the indigenous peoples in the San Diego area.

 

 

ARTIST: Pandr Design Co.Roxy Prima and Phoebe CornogExplore Liberty Station Arts District with a scavenger hunt - Axios San Diego
INSTALLATION NAME: You Are Exactly Where You Need to Be

LOCATION: Building 194 near SparkCycle 
INSTALLED: 
2016

 

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