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"Woven Voices"
Monica Ponce de Leon 2014 powder-coated steel, leather and Mylar James F. Battin U.S. Courthouse 2601 2nd Avenue North, Billings, Montana The design and function of the James F. Battin U.S. Courthouse, together with the spectacular natural beauty of Montana’s landscape, inspired Monica Ponce de Leon to create "Woven Voices", an ethereal sculpture that can be enjoyed from many different vantage points. From a distance, the artwork’s overall volume conveys an idea of balance that is thematically appropriate for a courthouse. Viewed at closer proximity, the sculpture reveals a dynamic interplay of forms, materials and textures that reflect the artist’s diverse set of visual references. For example, the sculpture’s inflected angle and bulbous swell imply both a sense of movement and a response to natural forces, such as erosion caused by wind or water. Ponce de Leon derived the artwork’s net-like structure from the paths of several Montana rivers, such as the Yellowstone, that flow in braided channel formations. She based the array of Mylar cones on the bell-shaped cluster of white flowers that bloom atop bear-grass, as well as the metal ornaments that adorn Native American jingle dresses. The artist has rendered these sources abstractly, to allow for a flexibility of meaning based on each viewer’s individual response. Ponce de Leon describes Woven Voices as “a tribute to the people who move in and out of the courthouse on a daily basis, brought together in the pursuit of justice.” Commissioned through the Art in Architecture Program Fine Arts Collection U.S. General Services Administration |
Yellowstone River Corridor Resource Clearinghouse
This web page provides a single point of access to data and publications that the Montana State Library archives for the Yellowstone River Corridor, and is intended to provide a clearinghouse for information associated with the river. The most recent work was conducted as part of the Yellowstone River Corridor Comprehensive Study, also known as the Cumulative Effects Assessment. This interdisciplinary study was mandated by Congress in the Water Resources Development Act of 1999, section 431.
http://geoinfo.msl.mt.gov/Home/data/yellowstone_river_corridor_resource_clearinghouse
This web page provides a single point of access to data and publications that the Montana State Library archives for the Yellowstone River Corridor, and is intended to provide a clearinghouse for information associated with the river. The most recent work was conducted as part of the Yellowstone River Corridor Comprehensive Study, also known as the Cumulative Effects Assessment. This interdisciplinary study was mandated by Congress in the Water Resources Development Act of 1999, section 431.
http://geoinfo.msl.mt.gov/Home/data/yellowstone_river_corridor_resource_clearinghouse
Yellowstone River Conservation District Council
Study Reports
Project Management Plan
Yellowstone River Cultural Inventory
Annual Report
Position Papers and Best Management Practices (watercraft, fish passage, intake diversion, Russian olive...)
http://www.yellowstonerivercouncil.org/resources.php#study-reports
Study Reports
Project Management Plan
Yellowstone River Cultural Inventory
Annual Report
Position Papers and Best Management Practices (watercraft, fish passage, intake diversion, Russian olive...)
http://www.yellowstonerivercouncil.org/resources.php#study-reports
Shiloh Conservation Area
The Shiloh Conservation Area is a project that transformed a City-owned parcel of land at the confluence of the Shiloh Drain and Hogan's Slough into a facility that is balancing the objectives of water quality improvements, flood control, and recreational benefits to the community. The project consists of a series of sedimentation detention ponds, constructed wetlands cells, and open water features. These features function to trap sediment, remove unwanted nutrients from the water column and provide secondary flood detention from West End stormwater runoff. In addition, a trail network includes educational signs so the public can learn about and enjoy the benefits of stormwater runoff management.
The Shiloh Conservation Area is a project that transformed a City-owned parcel of land at the confluence of the Shiloh Drain and Hogan's Slough into a facility that is balancing the objectives of water quality improvements, flood control, and recreational benefits to the community. The project consists of a series of sedimentation detention ponds, constructed wetlands cells, and open water features. These features function to trap sediment, remove unwanted nutrients from the water column and provide secondary flood detention from West End stormwater runoff. In addition, a trail network includes educational signs so the public can learn about and enjoy the benefits of stormwater runoff management.
John Dewey's Art as Experience
(p. 206) discussing aesthetic experience:
"In such experiences, every successive part flows freely, without seam and without unfilled blanks, into what ensues. At the same time there is no sacrifice of the self-identity of the parts. A river, as distinct from a pond, flows. But its flow gives a definiteness and interest to its successive portions greater than exist in the homogeneous portions of a pond. In an experience, flow is from something to something. As one part leads into another and as one part carries on what went before, each gains distinctness in itself. The enduring whole is diversified by successive phases that are emphases of its varied colors."
(p. 206) discussing aesthetic experience:
"In such experiences, every successive part flows freely, without seam and without unfilled blanks, into what ensues. At the same time there is no sacrifice of the self-identity of the parts. A river, as distinct from a pond, flows. But its flow gives a definiteness and interest to its successive portions greater than exist in the homogeneous portions of a pond. In an experience, flow is from something to something. As one part leads into another and as one part carries on what went before, each gains distinctness in itself. The enduring whole is diversified by successive phases that are emphases of its varied colors."