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k <br /> News Rele se Airport Artists Selected <br /> October 1 1988 <br /> Page 3 <br /> art cours s and media production for photography, film, and video at Lane <br /> Community College in the mass communication and art departments. <br /> The rt project is possible through the Arts in Public Places Ordinance, <br /> adopted b the city of Eugene in 1981, whereby one percent of the construction <br /> funds for projects over $50,000 is set aside for art work. Visual Arts <br /> Commissio members for the Mahlon Sweet Airport project included Ricky <br /> Langford, formerly of the city of Eugene; Douglas Beauchamp, director of the <br /> Lane Regi nal Arts Council; Sharon Ungerleider, a local artist; Dick <br /> Pickering a fine arts instructor at the University of Oregon; Don Genasci, a <br /> local arc itect; Roger Saydack, a local attorney; Anthony Radich, former <br /> director f the Kerns Art Center; Robert Boulton and Brian Bronson of the <br /> ~ Airport C mmission; Lotte Streisinger, a local artist and the art consultant <br /> ~r for the a rport art project; and representatives from TRA in Seattle, the <br /> architect ral firm for the project, and from Shiels and Obletz, the airport <br /> project m nagement firm. <br /> Mahl n Sweet Airport is in the last phase of a $20 million expansion <br /> that will more than triple the size of the terminal and expand the short- <br /> and long- erm parking lots. The new terminal will offer a spacious lobby, a <br /> second-st ry concourse to a larger boarding area, enclosed passenger loading <br /> i <br /> ~ bridges, mechanized baggage claim system, an observation deck, and more <br /> space for airlines, restaurant, gift shop, car rental agencies, and other <br /> airport b sinesses. Completion is scheduled for late fall, 1989. <br /> If you e, you may contact each of the artists: <br /> - .r~ q~ <br /> <br /> at~,.;r ,cSUavi6d c Oz- ~ 343-4595 <br /> ~ ~ ~~f~on n gren 752-4866 (Corvallis) <br /> eneau 287-9806 (Portland) Peter will be in Eugene on <br /> November 17 and will be available in the afternoon. <br /> If you would like to meet with him, please call him <br /> / to arrange an i ntervi ew. <br /> <br />