Mosaic Artist Selected for New Transit Center

Mosaic Artist Selected for New City of Frankfort Transit Center

Josephine Sculpture Park is excited to announce the selection of Xavier Cortada to complete a large mosaic and ceramic installation in Frankfort! JSP conducted a national call for mixed-media mosaic artists, resulting in 50 submissions from all over the globe. After a multi-stage juried selection process, the City of Frankfort and JSP selected Cortada. 


Over the past three decades, Cortada, a Cuban-American based in Miami, Fla, has created art across six continents, including more than 150 public artworks, installations, collaborative murals and socially-engaged projects. He has been commissioned to create art for CERN, the White House, the World Bank, the Florida Turnpike, Port Everglades, and Miami City Hall, among many other art, science, and government venues. Particularly environmentally focused, the work Cortada develops is intended to generate awareness and action toward issues of global climate change, sea level rise, and biodiversity loss.

Cortada’s artwork for the transit center will cover 1,200 square feet with glass mosaic and hand-painted ceramic tiles. It will be installed on the back wall of a four-story stairwell in the new facility. The transit center and parking garage is currently under construction in the quadrant surrounded by Clinton St, Wilkinson St, Mero St and Saint Clair in downtown Frankfort, adjacent to the Capital Plaza hotel. The transit center is a key element of the city’s Downtown Frankfort Masterplan. It will include a 300-space parking garage and a 5,000 square foot enclosed ground-level building for administrative offices and transit user public space.


The stairwell where the mosaic will be installed is located at the center of this new parking garage and will face south, overlooking Clinton St. The front and side walls of the stairwell will be clear glass, providing views of the installation from all angles. Cortada plans to begin his work in Frankfort this summer or fall, depending upon the parking garage’s construction completion.


Images

Left: Xavier Cortada, “Sunburst Woodstorks,” hand-carved/hand-painted ceramic tile, 10′ x 8.75′, 2016 (Stirrup Plaza II, Coconut Grove | Miami Dade Housing Authority)

Right: Xavier Cortada, "Diatom Fountain, " 16' x 8' x 8' hand-carved, hand-painted ceramic and mosaic on concrete, 2017. (Smathers Plaza | Little Havana, Miami-Dade Housing Authority)


posted March 27, 2024

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