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Three years ago, Kari Johnson was selected to make the railings special at the Monroe Street and Sam Reynolds EmX Stations. Soon her vision will go to the metal shop for production and then be installed before the September opening. Kari's designs incorporate the neighbors and natural scenes that you might see from the bus window today, as well as scenes of swimming in ponds and playing among cherry trees of the past. Kari says that creating public art is like being a "mood architect," stirring feelings, inspiring connections to ideas, to ideals, and to history. 

Peaceable Kingdom

The Eugene Weekly, March 28. 2012

Bigger Picture

The Eugene Weekly, December 10, 2009

Take Flight

Awards and Accomplishments:

• Featured artist and speaker, Lane Art’s Council 2013-2017 bike tours of murals in Eugene

• Served as a mentor through the Lane Arts Council Youth Arts Program, working with 6 sixteen year old women painting a public mural

• Awarded Lane Arts Council Outside Art Award for “the Revolutionary Oracle”, an interactive sculpture installed in downtown Eugene

• Voted three times as Best Local Artist by the Eugene Weekly’s annual readers’ poll

• Voted People Favorite Building Design at Eugene Celebration for building design at the East Blair Housing Co-op

• Voted Best Outside Art by the Eugene Weekly’s annual readers’ poll

• Named honorary citizen of Harrisburg, OR

• Voted Best of Show at the Mayor’s Art Show

• Award Lane Arts Council grant

• Artwork on 11/2/06 Eugene Weekly magazine cover

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