Cumulus

Artist: Tim Prentice
Date: 2007
Material: Polycarbonate, aluminum, stainless steel
Location: Entry of Beecher School, 100 Jewell Street.

Tim Prentice, from Cornwall, Connecticut, created "Cumulus," a kinetic sculpture consisting of a series of five cloud-like forms in the atrium of the Beecher School. Each 4' to 8' form consists of 150 lexon forms that rotate in response to air currents made by students' movement, interior air systems, and the angle of the sun during different times of day.

Hoops and Hurdles

Material: Acrylic on canvas
Location: Regional Field House, 480 Sherman Parkway.

A series of fourteen acrylic on canvas panels was commissioned by the City to complement the area's new regional fieldhouse, a structure attached to the renovated Hillhouse High School. The murals feature images of Hillhouse students participating in sports, specifically in the two center murals, which depict, on the left, female track athletes, and the right, basketball players (hence, the title of the work Hoops and Hurdles).

Hillhouse High School's commitment to athletics goes beyond the traditional school spirit-one of school's goals is to prepare students for careers in sports through the curriculum offered in its Sports Academy.

The artists describe his mural work with the phrase "imaginistic", a term he coined to reflect his realistic style, which is touched with a hint of fantasy. From Prospect, Connecticut, Falcone's work can be found throughout New Haven.

Hillhouse

Artist: Sheila Levrant de Bretteville
Date: 2002
Material: Ceramic tile, glass mosaic
Location: James Hillhouse High School, 480 Sherman Parkway

Developing her project based on the tile work already installed in the entrance to Hillhouse High School, artist Sheila de Bretteville (who previously completed a Percent for Art project entitled Path of Stars in Ninth Square) chose to replace the plain white ceramic tiles with printed ceramic tiles and glass mosaic pieces. The statements printed onto ceramic tiles by students drawn over decades of the school's existence reveal their experiences of school and education. Many of the more recent students had been taught by writer Elizabeth Alexander (author, The Venus Hottentot) and Hillhouse English teacher Ben Boulton.

According to artist Sheila Levrant de Bretteville, this project intended to "enhance the life and work of everyone at Hillhouse High School, warmly welcoming all who come here now and, in the future, enabling each to know where they are and something about who is here now and has been here before." Bright yellow paint called "golden nectar" also replaced the white walls above the frieze and was intended to create a bright, warm entryway.

Life Spiral

Artist: John Rohlfing
Date: 2001
Material: Cast, enamel aluminum
Location: Wexler/Grant Community School, 29 Foote Street

Clearly, Canton, Connecticut-based artist John Rohlfing intended the large-scale objects floating around the spiral to suggest a 'collective educational journey' meant to inspire students of all ages, both young and old. The spiral, painted in alternating black and white stripes, pulses through space, with book, pencil, and other education-related objects hovering around its energy.