Chicago Blues District and Sculpture Park
Chicago, IL
Phase I: A major sculpture tribute to the Chicago Blues era, this project included the redesign of six city blocks into a Blues & Jazz District. The design & installation of two major sculptures and signage entries to the district, streetscape design, landscaping, and 48 sculptures affixed to light poles. The project includes four 27’ high constructed sculptural fixtures on the four corners of 47th & Martin Luther King Drive. Each fixture features a 27’ high bronze cylinder, cut out in the front, with a 7’ high blues musician affixed to the top. The cylinders are internally lit with a powerful spotlight that travels up the tube and highlights the musician on top. There is a different musician in each of the four sculptures.
Phase 2: Blues Sculpture Park: This phase features a monumental tribute to the great musician, violinist, and legendary music teacher Captain Walter Dyett. It is framed in a Sculpture Park setting, and accompanied by four bas-relief panels that relate the evolution of the Blues in Chicago using text and some 50 bronze images of the Blues greats of several eras. Also honored are the 100’s of students of Captain Dyett representing a Who’s Who of Jazz and Blues pioneers and legends.
Phase 2: Blues Sculpture Park: This phase features a monumental tribute to the great musician, violinist, and legendary music teacher Captain Walter Dyett. It is framed in a Sculpture Park setting, and accompanied by four bas-relief panels that relate the evolution of the Blues in Chicago using text and some 50 bronze images of the Blues greats of several eras. Also honored are the 100’s of students of Captain Dyett representing a Who’s Who of Jazz and Blues pioneers and legends.
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