Prairie is the theme of this outdoor art, which greets visitors as they arrive at the library. Above the mosaic murals made of natural stone, you’ll see prairie-themed poetry etched into cast concrete. Emily Dickinson writes of prairie clover, bees and revelry, while Carl Sandburg’s words call out: “The prairie sings to me in the forenoon and I know in the night I rest easy in the prairie arms, on the prairie heart.”
Artist statement
“The form of the planters themselves, being horizontally proportioned, lends itself best to landscape-related imagery. The prairie of my imagination is one that construes images of fatness or rolling land.”
Funded by Hennepin County Library One Percent for Art program