Public Art Location

Below you can find the public art located throughout the City of Campbell. Check out the printable version of the public art locations or explore the photo gallery.

Downtown

Art Work	Location	History	Artist	About the Artist
Agricultural Heritage Plaques: French Prune, Bartlett Pear, Blenheim Apricot, Payne Walnut, Jordanola Almond, Bing Cherry (View Photo)	Various locations Downtown Campbell Avenue, Civic Center Drive, Central Avenue. All 12 plaques displayed in the center of Orchard City Green.	Installed in 1992 as part of the Downtown Streetscape Project. The fruits and blossoms commemorate Campbell's agricultural heritage.	Alfredo Mucchino	Mr. Mucchino, a respected brand and design expert, is the Chief Creative Director of Liquid Agency, Inc. Before that, he was the Chief Creative Officer of Full Moon Interactive and Mucchino Design Group, a design firm he started in 1980. Muccino Design Group grew to become one of the leading brand and corporate identity design firms in Silicon Valley.
Art Panels, 2002 (View Photo)	Second Street Parking Garage	The panels were designed to capture Campbell's orchard history, portray the seasons and include the natural imagery of the sky, earth and trees in its design. The panels are constructed with bronze, brass, powder coated stainless steel, aluminum, and copper.	Lea Anne Lake and Tom Askman, Spokane, Washington	Tom Askman is Professor and Art Department Chairman, Eastern Washington University, Cheney, Washington. Lea Anne Lake is a professional artist located in Spokane, Washington.
Second Street Garage (View Photo)	Second Street side of Parking Garage
"Gateway", 2001 (View Photo)	East and west entrances to Downtown Campbell	The arch was designed to symbolize a "Gateway" at the entrances to historic Downtown Campbell and incorporates the Water Tower logo as part of the design.	Artist: Suzanne Bauer, Bauer Design Fabricator: Brian Padilla, Brian's Welding

Community Center

Art Work	Location	History	Artist	About the Artist
"Apricot Walk " 2003 (View Photo)	Main sidewalk at the Community Center.	Pattern is evocative of fruit drying in trays. Commemorates and celebrates Campbell's history as the "Orchard City" and a past location of one of the largest fruit drying grounds in the world.	Sheila Ghidini, San Francisco, California	Ms. Ghidini has been a practicing artist for over 20 years. She has worked in a wide range of media, which have taken form in drawing, sculpture, installations and collaborations. Much of her work revolves around a sense of place and memory.
Handball Mural (View Photo)	Community Center Handball Court		Niles Palmer Sportsart, Whittier, California	Mr. Palmer's work is characterized by an unusual ability to capture impressions of color and movement. This ability combined with his lifelong interest in all types of sports results in unique and imaginative portrayals of sports happenings. His work form the decor of many court clubs, college and municipal golf clubs and aquatic centers, city parks, and ball fields.
"Handball Gloves" (View Photo)	Community Center Handball Court		Robert Kass	Mr. Kass was the Public Works Director for the City of Campbell from 1993 to 2011.
Tennis Court (View Photo)		At the tennis courts.	Niles Palmer Sportsart, Whittier, CA	Mr. Palmer's work is characterized by an unusual ability to capture impressions of color and movement. This ability combined with his lifelong interest in all types of sports results in unique and imaginative portrayals of sports happenings. His work form the decor of many court clubs, college and municipal golf clubs and aquatic centers, city parks, and ball fields.
Sports (View Photos)		Around the walls of the Community Center swimming pool and gymnasium buildings.	Alber and Luna DeMatteis
"Memory Landscape" (View Photo)	Orchard City Banquet Hall - West wall	The mosaic design is divided in three separate panels depicting an expressionist landscape with bright blue skies, a tree full of whimsical fruits, and colorful textured fields in the background. The Memory Landscape honors the agricultural tradition of Campbell. This puzzle of thousands of tiny tiles is also a symbol for “community”, in a landscape where each of the pieces represents a valuable, unique part of the diversity of human experience that has forged Campbell.

Library

Art Work	Location	History	Artist	About the Artist
"Children's Authors" (View Photo)	At the Harrison Avenue entrance to the Campbell Library.	In conjunction with the city's 2001 Annual Sidewalk Maintenance Project, the main entrance to the Library was re-landscaped. Part of the design included a children's authors word search. The authors are: Baum, Blume, Carroll, Cleary, Dahl, Frank, Grimm, Lewis, Lindgren, Milne, Sendak, Poe, Rowling, Twain, Seuss, Tolkien, Wilder, Verne and White.
"Discover Water" (View Photos)	Along the Los Gatos Creek Trail just south of the Campbell Park bridge.	Installed by the Santa Clara Valley Water District as a means of educating the public about creeks, tributaries, aquifers and their Adopt a Creek Program.

Theatre

Art Work	Location	History	Artist	About the Artist
"Fishin' with Roger", 2004 (View Photos)	In the reflection ponds in front of the Heritage Theatre.	Roger was Artist Cork Marcheschi's grandfather. Time spent with him was magical. The color, light and fantasy of this sculpture comes close to expressing the magic times they had together.	Cork Marcheschi, San Francisco, California	Mr. Marcheschi has worked as a fine artist for 35 years and public art for 23 years. He has worked all over the world. His fine art work is about energy, light and humor. Light is the material of our visual experiences. We know it as an abstract material. This prelinguistic knowledge is a very important component in understanding why artworks composed of light penetrate people's barriers of abstract art and ideas.

Other Locations

Art Work	Location	History	Artist	About the Artist
Flowers - From early 1999 until February 2008, this colorful mural of fruits and flowers graced the stucco wall at the corner of San Tomas Expressway and Campbell Avenue. Unfortunately, during a blustery storm on February 20, 2008 the wall collapsed, taking the majority of the mural with it. (View Photo)	Northwest Corner of Campbell Avenue and San Tomas Expressway	Because of frequent tagging on the sound wall, artist Debbie Arambula volunteered to paint this mural.	Debbie Arambula	Born in Tucson, Arizona, and raised in the Almaden Valley, Ms. Arambula created beautiful works of art that uplift and inspire people. Her art studio is located in Downtown Campbell.

Ainsley Park

Art Work	Location	History	Artist	About the Artist
"Beacon" - a smooth edged vertical spine 11 feet tall cut from 1/2 inch steel is 4.5 feet at its widest point. Decorative images of fruit, nuts, seeds and spirals are laser cut from 1/2 inch steel. (View Photos)	Ainsley Park	Glen Rogers' inspiration for "Beacon" comes from a lantern shape depicting a beacon of guiding light, illuminating the way to Campbell's Historic Downtown. Rogers selected design elements found in nature, like spirals and circles, which symbolize unity and oneness, and combined them with designs representative of Campbell's agricultural past.	Glen Rogers	Mr. Rogers' work reflects an investigation into archetypal symbols found in nature and inscribed on ancient stones. She draws from this universal visual language, returning again and again to some of nature's purest forms such as the spiral, the circle, and the crescent, whose cyclical shapes suggest renewal and regeneration, birth and the cycle of life. Other works by the artist located in the City of Campbell include "Swimming in Circles" at John D. Morgan Park and "Essence of Water" at Edith Morley Park.
Copper panels copied from the "Beacon" sculpture and inlaid into the seat wall depicting images of fruit, nuts and seeds. (View Photos)	Ainsley Park		Glen Rogers	See Above
View of the right half of the seat wall (View Photo)
View of the left half of the seat wall (View Photo)

Morgan Park

Art Work	Location	History	Artist	About the Artist
(View Photos)	Water play area in the playground on the Budd Avenue side of John D. Morgan Park	Installed May, 2004 with other playground improvements under the Park Improvement Implementation Plan adopted by the City Council, October 1996.
"Swimming in Circles" May 1999 (View Photo)	Rincon Avenue playground at John D. Morgan Park	Ceramic Tiles by Rolling Hills and Campbell Middle School Students in Collaboration with Glen Rogers and Bill Gould	Glen Rogers, Oakland, California Bill Gould, San Jose, California	Ms. Rogers work reflects an investigation into archetypal symbols found in nature and inscribed on ancient stones. She draws from this universal visual language, returning again and again to some of nature’s purest forms such as the spiral, the circle, and the crescent, whose cyclical shapes suggest renewal and regeneration, birth, and the cycle of life.   Bill Gould Design addresses the issue of bland, generic architectural environments through creative, economical architectural solutions and the reintegration of art into architecture.

Fischer Park

Art Work	Location	History	Artist	About the Artist
Tile Murals (View Photo)	Jack Fischer Park	Completed by students in 1969, the tile murals were originally displayed on the front of the San Tomas Elementary School. Titled: Santa Clara Valley - The Old and the New, the murals were created from students illustrations of the past, present and future of the Campbell area. The murals celebrate the heritage of the San Tomas area and stand today as a reminder of the many students who attended school on this site.
Fossils and Dinosaur Bones (View Photos)	On the sides of the water play feature at Jack Fischer Park.	Moore Iacofano Goltsman (MIG), Tim Gilbert, Landscape Architect		MIG's play environments inspire children to be fit and active and foster their social, emotional and cognitive development.

Morley Park

Art Work	Location	History	Artist	About the Artist
"Essence of Water", 2000 (View Photo)	Edith Morley Park	Fabricated steel wall sculpture with rust patina incorporating landscaping elements of trees and vines	Glen Rogers, Oakland, California	Mr. Rogers' work reflects an investigation into archetypal symbols found in nature and inscribed on ancient stones. She draws from this universal visual language, returning again and again to some of nature's purest forms such as the spiral, the circle, and the crescent, whose cyclical shapes suggest renewal and regeneration, birth and the cycle of life.

Dog Park

Art Work	Location	History	Artist	About the Artist
Mural - "Dogs on Pedestals" (View Photo)	Los Gatos Creek County Park Dog Park	Installed in 2006 as part of the Dog Park Project.	Janice Lowe, owner of Decorative Painting, Morgan Hill, California.	Janice specializes in murals, specialty faux finishes, fine art paintings, and bronze sculpture. The inspiration for the Dog Park project was the concept of elevated status for pets that parks are designed around. Her mural work is often whimsical in nature, and most always conveys her highest personal priorities: personality, energy and life.

Stojanovich Family Park

Art Work	Location	History	Artist	About the Artist
Bronze Grasshopper on Apricot (View Photo)	Stojanovich Family Park Union Ave.	Grand Opening December 1, 2011.	Michael McLaughlin Torrington, Connecticut.	Mr. McLaughlin works out of his own foundry in Connecticut.
Interpretive Panels (View Photos)	Stojanovich Family Park Union Ave.	Grand Opening December 1, 2011.	Rachel Slick Tucson, Arizona.	Ms. Slick brings 16 years of diverse experience in mixed media sculpture with works in ceramic, cement, metal, glass, tile, and mixed media murals to her credit.

Virginia Park

Art Work	Location	History	Artist	About the Artist
All 26 alphabet letters and numbers 1 through 10 along the park paths. (View Photos)	Virginia Park	Installed in April of 2000 with other playground improvements under the Park Improvement Implementation Plan adopted by the City Council, October 1996.