East 14th Corridor Improvement Project Ashland, Alameda County

The Alameda County Arts Commission is pleased to announce that artist Miriam Klein Stahl has been awarded the public art contract for the East 14th Street Corridor Improvement Project. Stahl was selected from a group of 5 semifinalist artists by the Artist Selection Committee, comprised of community members and a local artist. Stahl is creating designs for 17 unique cut metal art panels that will be placed in the street medians along East 14th Street. The panels will be painted a solid color which will be determined at a later date. Stahl is also creating 16 smaller designs that will be cut in metal and inset on the tops of seating placed along the sidewalks. The 16 smaller designs will be repeated and appear on a total of 53 seat tops. Lastly, the artist is creating 10 designs that will wrap utility boxes as well as 12 designs to be printed on street banners. The overall theme of the artwork is “Keep Close to Nature”. The artwork invokes the beauty of the natural world, resilience, and a sustainable future for communities. The imagery explores how all the living things in the neighborhood live in harmony and how we are interdependent. Stahl is creating the designs as paper cuts which will then be turned into digital files for use by the fabricator who will laser cut the designs into the metal.