{"id":10018,"date":"2022-08-08T08:06:59","date_gmt":"2022-08-08T12:06:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/news.colgate.edu\/magazine\/?p=10018"},"modified":"2022-08-08T09:59:19","modified_gmt":"2022-08-08T13:59:19","slug":"construction-to-completion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.colgate.edu\/magazine\/2022\/08\/08\/construction-to-completion\/","title":{"rendered":"Construction to Completion"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Eastgate<\/em>, a sculpture by Professor DeWitt Godfrey, is featured on the 2022 \u201cBest of Denver\u201d list by the Colorado city\u2019s Westword<\/em> news. \u201c[Godfrey] took a stark departure from the stacked, conical works he\u2019s known for to create this cascading sculpture,\u201d Westword<\/em> wrote. \u201cBut what makes the work so compelling is its metaphorical acknowledgment of its surroundings: The metal materials point to the industrial history of its environment, while the structure serves as a portal to discovering the potential of your surroundings.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Photo by Thaddaeus Rowe <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Here\u2019s what it involved:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u2192<\/strong>\tCommissioned by Denver Public \tArt for the new 39th Avenue \tGreenway, Eastgate<\/em> spans 39th Ave. and an adjacent bike path, forming a celebratory entrance to the park.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u2192<\/strong> \t66′ long, 10′ deep, 24′ high<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u2192<\/strong> \tTotal weight: 66,280 pounds (~33 tons)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u2192<\/strong> \tSculpture surface area: 2,400 square feet; unfurled it would be almost the length of a football field<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u2192<\/strong> \t1,376 pieces of 1\/4″ Corten steel plate, totaling 5,300 square feet<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u2192<\/strong> \t209 lengths of C3x5 Corten steel channel, totaling 2,556 feet (just short of 1\/2 mile)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u2192<\/strong> \t8,840 stainless steel bolts<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The artist says: \u201cEastgate<\/em> was a new frontier, a completely new ribbon typology that pushed myself and crew to our limits at every step in the process \u2014 from design to final installation. It stands as my most ambitious, labor-intensive, and complex project to date, more than I ever expected.\u201d Godfrey (the Peter L. and Maria T. Kellner Endowed Chair in the arts, creativity and innovation; professor of art and art history) creates unique, site-specific public works of art for cities, institutions, and private clients.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

See what it took to make “Eastgate,” a 33-ton sculpture by Professor DeWitt Godfrey.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1260,"featured_media":10203,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_hide_featured_image":false,"_jetpack_featured_image_duplicate_dismissed":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[21],"tags":[37,204,1128,1127,1129,489],"coauthors":[135],"class_list":["post-10018","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-scene","tag-art","tag-design","tag-industrial","tag-metal","tag-ribbon","tag-sculpture"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/palXSH-2BA","amp_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/news.colgate.edu\/magazine\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2022\/08\/ConstructionCompletionFeature.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.colgate.edu\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10018","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.colgate.edu\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.colgate.edu\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.colgate.edu\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1260"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.colgate.edu\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10018"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/news.colgate.edu\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10018\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10181,"href":"https:\/\/news.colgate.edu\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10018\/revisions\/10181"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.colgate.edu\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10203"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.colgate.edu\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10018"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.colgate.edu\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10018"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.colgate.edu\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10018"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.colgate.edu\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=10018"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}