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Cooperative Extension Education Center
About the Artwork
This series of six monoliths surrounds the retention pond at Orange County’s Cooperative Extension Education Center. The artist wanted to reflect the educational theme of the center by creating a sense of discovery. Each relief image depicts ways we commonly interact with and appreciate our environment: wildlife exploration in a boat, cows at the farm, flowers in a forest clearing, a family buying oranges, horseback riders, and Florida’s wild animals. The blue color of the images was designed to complement the architecture of the center.
About the Artist
William (Bill) Culbertson
William C. Culbertson holds a B.S. in Fine Arts from Townson State University and a Masters of Art Education from Rhode Island School of Design in 1981. He was an industrial designer and design director with Hasbro Industries until 1986. In 1986 he branched out on his own as a sculptor and designer while also teaching as a visiting lecturer/instructor for Framingham State College, Rhode Island School of Design and New England Institute of Technology from 2001 to 2005. He has received several public art commissions across the country with a goal of working successfully within the community, often exploring artistic themes that bring attention to the cultural and historic aspects of the surrounding community. Recent commissions have included two large historical pieces for the Dallas Area Rapid Transit Authority, a large-scale series of sculptures depicting the life of the Shepherd Department Stores for the State of Rhode Island, a large bronze sculpture composition in Aimes, Iowa, a large clock tower for the Tampa Union Station and four, five-foot diameter medallions to be installed on highway bridges depicting the rich cultural heritage of historic Ybor City in Tampa, Florida.
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Did you know?
The famous Florida Highwaymen school of art is represented with an enlargement of a Harold Newton painting on the side of OUC's Reliable Plaza
Discover Art in Central Florida!
For those who have eyes to see, there are hundreds of works of art around them.
This web site provides some information on many of those works of art that can
be regularly viewed in Orange County by any member of the public without an
admission fee. They are outside in public view, or located in an interior area
that is normally open to the public.
Look around this web site and find something that interests you. Then go see it
in person. The information you find here will add to the pleasure of exploring
public art in Central Florida.
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