Helen DeVos childrens Hospital Proposal

Project: Helen DeVos Childrens Hospital Project

Location: 100 Michigan NE Grand Rapids, Michigan 49507

Proposed site: Project F : Beacons

Artist: T’Alyne 1425 Margaret SE, Grand Rapids, Michigan 49507
www.talyne.org studio@talyne.org 616 304 6821
Architect: Dave Huizenga, Integrated A/E, Grand Rapids, Michigan
Fabricator: Dan Carlson Design, Ada, Michigan

9/29/09 t'alyne copyright 2009 1

T’Alyne 1425 Margaret SE 49507 www.talyne.org studio@talyne.org 616 304 6821

Statement
My work focuses on the importance of
mark making and how this establishes
relationships and bridges between our
understanding of the environment and
self. Flickering between two-
dimensional and three-dimensional
experiences my current work addresses
the conceptual spirit of water. Living in
Michigan surrounded by fresh water I
continually observe and am fascinated
by its constantly changing form while it
trickles, seeps, and flows. I discover
patterns when it freezes. I am
spellbound when it floats in the air.
Water is capable of great power and
destruction. It is beautiful as it filters,
reflects, refracts, and interacts with light.
It represents a precise process, an
exchange of energy that has its own
natural timing and organization.
Studio View during production, Vermont



Artistic goals: I believe it is important to encourage cultural connections throughout
our society establishing value and ensuring a reasonable participation in the
philanthropic process for the arts and humanities. We must move toward an
understanding of the value of art in our communities and family life. During this project,
I am interested in embracing and highlighting our connections with the water around
and near us through identifying its beauty, fragility, and its ethereal aspects. Through
my work as an artist, I want to be part of the wave of collective consciousness
implementing awareness. Building up our inventory of experiences that support the
value of creativity and cultural heritage to the lives of people and their communities is
essential. All life absolutely depends on and receives pleasure from water in some form.



Why important to artist?

Water is a precious resource that we need
to protect. Being a responsible steward of
our resources is key. Environmental
awareness and protecting our natural
resources are crucial if we are to survive.
As a culture we are too busy to notice the
delicacy of this complete system of life.
Through my work as an artist, I view this
project as a means to highlight these subtle
spaces that filter and support water. It is
crucial that we attend to the beauty,
tranquility, and serenity in order to return
to the center of balance. When we take
care of our water we directly impact
ourselves.

Studio View production of Waterfalls, Vermont



Why important to artist:
• My grandparents, George and Leota
Sietsema have made significant gifts
to the community.
• Millenium Park: Naming of Lake
Leota, as well as significant property
additions to the park.
• Spectrum and VanAndel Institute:
Significant contributions in memory
of my grandmother.
• Learning from the philanthropic
legacy of my grandparents, George
and Leota Sietsema, it is important to
Millenium Park, Kent County Parks, Michigan
me to continue bringing it forward.



Objectives and Goals:
• Create an aesthetically pleasing series of 5
BEACONS to inspire and guide children and
families as they enter and interact within the hospital
environment.

• Accentuate the entrance of the hospital and create a
restorative feeling and a sense place that is inspiring
and fun.

• Provide visually dynamic objects that will enhance
the architectural structure and environment.

• Design a series of “beacons” that will flood the space
with color. Utilizing color to enhance the healing
process in turn adding comfort to the environment.

• Foster solid collaborative partnerships with local
businesses.



Beacon-n
1. A light house or signaling
buoy that produces a light to
warn or guide ships.
2. A light on a hilltop or tower
used as a signal to warn or
guide.
3. A prominent hill on which
fires were formerly lit as a
signal.
4. Somebody or something that
inspires or guides others.



Site Specifics for Project F: Beacons
Create site-specific sculptures that mimic the wide
range of contour lines found in the surrounding
landscapes, highlighting the views of the Grand
River from the hospital.
Locate each sculpture on the site to maximize
interactions and interplay with light.
Proposed sculptures will be a series of 5 beacons
hung from the ceiling.
Each beacon is illuminated with strands of LED
lights, and raised or lowered with a motorized
pulley.
Beacon A: 6’Height x 13’Diameter x
40.83Circumference
Beacon B: 3’ H x 9’D x 28.274 C
Beacon C: 6’ H x 6’D x 18.85 C
Beacon D: 6’ H x 3’ D x 9.425 C
Beacon E: 3’ H x 6’ D x 18.85 C



Materials Description:
– Fabricate the frame structures out of anodized
aluminum and steel cable. The use of
anodized aluminum provides a lightweight,
long lasting, durable, and low maintenance
material.
– Imbed image and color onto fiberglass using
water based varnish, UV resins and pigments.
The use of fiberglass provides a durable
lightweight, low maintenance, fire retardant
material that introduces elegant color into the
hospital environment.
– Led lights will hang in the interior of each
Beacon. The use of Led lights will provide a
long lasting illumination source that will
engage the fiberglass, flooding the space with
color. In addition, enhancing the Beacons
visibility from the exterior of the building.
– Each Beacon will be motorized for ease of
raising and lowering objects if Led lights ever
need maintenance.


Site views for Project F: Beacons
Blueprint and placement of Beacons Front entrance

Main lobby Shop



Design Description:
Simple use of elegant forms and color that will result in dynamic, whimsical, poetic
combinations that will appeal to audiences of all ages and embrace all cultures and
religions.
Final sculptures will be developed by imbedding color and composition within the fiberglass
and resin panels.
Color will be used as a means to encourage healing and growth.
Resulting effect will be similar to stained glass.

Exhibition View, Cathedral de St Jacques, France



education
MFA, Arizona State University, Summa Cum Laude,
Printmaking and Foundry
BA, Arizona State University, Magna Cum Laude,
Drawing
BFA, Arizona State University, Magna Cum Laude,
Printmaking
awards and residencies
Fellowship, Vermont Studio Center, Johnson, VT
Honorable Mention, Celebration, First United Methodist
Church, Grand Rapids, MI
Peoples Choice, Celebration, First United Methodist
Church, Grand Rapids, MI
Fellowship, Virginia Creative Centre of Art, Amherst, VA
Artist-in-Residence, Banff Centre, Banff, Canada
Frederick Meijer Botanical Garden and Sculpture Park,
Over the River and through the woods Fiberglass, varnish, pigment, steel Loeshner Award runner-up
West Michigan Natural Storage exhibition. 85’ underground. Fellowship, Camac Centre d'Art, Marnay-sur-Seine,
France
Fellowship, Atelier Fourwinds, Aureille, France
Pell Grant
ASU Printmaking Grant
Interlochen All-American Scholarship, Michigan



Studio View, Vermont

solo exhibitions
And then there was water, Open Concept Gallery, Michigan
Emerge, West MI Natural Storage-Gypsum Mines, Grand Rapids, Michigan
Moving Walls, Forest Hills Fine Arts Centre, Cascade, Michigan
One Year, Wellington Institute of Technology, Wellington, New Zealand
Merged, Gallery James Kaneko, Sacramento, California
In Sound, Conservatoire de Musique de Marcel Landowski, Troyes, France
daVinci Room (permanent installation), Camac , Marnay-sur-Seine, France
Gaps in Time, Eglise de Saint Jacques, Dival, France
New Works, Atelier Fourwinds, Aureille, France
Keep Quiet, Young Bickley Geiger Architects, Phoenix, Arizona



group exhibitions 86th Annual Regional Exhibition, Toledo Museum of
Artprize, Huntington Corporate, Grand Rapids, MI Art, OH Jurors : Vince Castagnacci and
Lexington Art League, Lexington, KY Tarrance Corbin
South Bend Museum of Contemporary Art, South Regional Juried Competition, Lansing Centre for the
Bend, IN Arts, MI
Heavy Metal, Waterstreet Gallery, Douglas, MI Festival 2004, Grand Rapids Art Museum, MI
Retrospective, Forest Hills Fine Arts Center, MI Underground Studio, Grand Rapids, MI
Nooks and Corners, Cascade Gallery, MI Bogena Galerie, St Paul de Vence, France
Trendsetters, Waterstreet Gallery, Douglas, MI Galerie Terre d'Art, St Paul de Vence, France
Small Works, Cascade Gallery, Cascade, MI
Cervini Haas Gallery, Scottsdale, AZ
Festival 2007, Grand Rapids Art Museum, Grand
Rapids, MI Juror : Roger Timmermanis Eye Lounge, Icehouse, Phoenix, AZ
Governors Residence, UICA, Grand Rapids, MI Eye Lounge, Mesa Contemporary Centre for the Arts,
Regional Annual Exhibition, Muskegon Museum of Mesa, AZ
Art, Muskegon, MI Juror : Dr Howard Risatti Art Detour, Icehouse, Phoenix, AZ
Celebration, First United Methodist Church, Grand Drawings in Sculpture, Step, Tempe, AZ
Rapids, MI Desert Iron, Tempe Center Gallery, Tempe, AZ
Festival 2005, Grand Rapids Art Museum, MI : Juror :
Nathan Cummings, Harry Wood Gallery, Tempe, AZ
Art Martin



public art
And then there was water…Temporary Public Art, Open Concept Gallery, MI
Lake Dr. Mural Project, Mixed Greens & Fred Bouma Co., Grand Rapids, MI
daVinci Room, Camac Centre D’Art, Marnay sur Seine, France
Artstops, Grand Rapids MI in progress
Catholic Diocese, Grand Rapids, MI in progress



public collections
Museo De Arte Contemporanco, Mexico Alan Blau and Associates, Ltd., AZ
Carrillo Gil Mexico D.F., Mexico Alain Pourain PDV, Villenauxe la Grande,
Grand Valley State University, MI France
West Michigan Centre of Arts and Technology, First United Methodist Church, Grand Rapids,
Grand Rapids, MI MI
Kaiser Foundation, CA Lecocq Executive Offices Vichy, France
Fondation Franck Tenot, France Patricia Klinck, Ph.D., Alberta, Canada
Pole University, Vichy, France Curtiss Legg, Ph.D., AZ
E.on Energie AG, Munich, Germany Richard R. Raubolt, Ph.D., MI
PFE Prufungsgesellschaft fur Camac Centre d’Art, Marnay sur Seine, France
Energieversorgunosunternehmen mbh, Arizona Country Club, Phoenix, AZ
Munich, Germany Metro Health Hospital, Grand Rapids, MI
Hais Architects, Phoenix, AZ Honorable George Heartwell, Mayor, City of
Grand Rapids, MI
Terra Sana, Alberta, Canada
Joseph Jeup Furniture Headquarters, Grand
Cohen Cohen Law Offices: Phoenix, AZ and Rapids, MI
Las Vegas, NV



IMAGES: Site Specific examples of color and Composition

Johnson, Vermont Pine Cay Island, Caribbean

CAMAC Centre D’Art, France
Color and composition inspired by the Seine River

All images represent
various bodies of water
from Vermont, the Caribbean,
and France.



IMAGES: Site Specific examples of Color and Composition
Amherst, Virginia Crabtree Falls, Blue Ridge Mountains Pine Cay Island, Caribbean, Ocean view at Frey home

All images
Represent bodies
of water and
waterfalls from
Virginia, Caribbean,
and Northern
Michigan.

Charlevoix, Michigan
Fall on the Frey Farm ponds Upper Pennisula, Michigan
Early Morning on private lake at the Frey family compound



IMAGES: Site Specific examples of Color and composition

Artprize 2009,
Huntington Corporate,
Grand Rapids, MI

Work created during
Fellowship at Vermont
Studio Center, April 09

Images represent the cycle of
water as I experienced the
mountains and waterfalls
during snowmelt season in
Vermont.



T’Alyne References:
• Suny Monk, Director, Virginia Center of Creative Arts, Virginia
154 San Angelo Dr
Amherst VA 24521
smonk@vcca.com 434-946-7236 Office 434. 946.9960

• Jean Yves Coffre, Director, CAMAC Centre D’Art, France
1, Grande Rue
10400 Marnay sur Seine France
jycoffre@camac.org 032-539-2061 Office 0663796054 cell

• Honorable George Heartwell, Mayor of Grand Rapids, Michigan
gheartwe@grcity.us

• Robert Eleveld, Attorney, McGarry Blair
rje@mcgarrybair.com 616-742-3500

• Karen Lott, Executive Director, Forest Hills Fine Arts Center, Michigan
600 Forest Hill Ave SE
Grand Rapids MI 49546
klott@fhps.k12.mi.us 616-493-8965



Dan Carlson References:
• Grand Rapids Community Foundation: Exterior Signage
185 Oaks Ave SW
Roberta King- 616-454-1751 x 119

• Ada Township: Roselle Park observation Deck
Jim Ferro, Township planner 616-676-9191

• Xibitz: Grand Rapids Community Foundation Lobby sculpture: Eli Lilly & Co.
5809 Cross Roads Pkwy SW, Grand Rapids, Michigan
Joe Maxwell 616-247-3500

• James and Shirley Balk/ Hausen Balk Steel
1230 Monroe Ave NW 616-458-1414

• Visbeen Architects: Cornerstone University
Grand logo sculpture
Wayne Visbeen 616-285-9901



Dave Huizenga References:
• Forest Hills Fine Arts Center, Grand Rapids

• David D. Hunting YMCA, Grand Rapids

• Cathedral Square Center, Grand Rapids

• Space Source - 169 Monroe, Grand Rapids

• 38 Commerce, Grand Rapids - under construction

• Herman Miller dealer showrooms: Boston, Philadelphia, Miami, St. Louis, Denver, Las Vegas, San Francisco

• Herman Miller manufacturing facility café venues and wall graphics: Spring Lake, Zeeland


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