Richard Hansen
Associate Professor, Department of Art
University of Southern Colorado
Pueblo, Colorado 81001
EDUCATION
Master of Landscape Architecture, University of Colorado, 1985
Bachelor of Arts, Fine Arts, College of William and Mary, 1971
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
Selected Public Art Projects:
"Confluence," Mitre Corporation Headquarters, Maclean, Virginia, 2003. This granite fountain forms the
centerpiece of the courtyard garden of this corporate complex. Split from a single 10 ton boulder, the three
stone elements with stainless steel tubes slotted into each piece stands as a dramatic contrast to the formal plantings.
"Flowline," Sculptural seating, Jackson Sculpture Garden, Sangre de Cristo Arts Center, Pueblo, Colorado , 2003.
Commisioned as a memorial to Karen Adams whose plantings added so much vitality to the sculpture garden.
"Passage," Artwalk/Exhibition Space, Arts and Humanities Building, Mesa State College, Grand Junction, Colorado, 2002.
This space was created to offer a range of outdoor exhibition opportunities for sculpture and other art events while
establishing a connecion to the primary North - South pedestrian corridor within the Mesa State campus.
Town of Vail, Meadow Drive Streetscape. The Art in Public Places Board hired me to work with the design team to
integrate public art into this 2.3 million dollar urban design project, identifying potential sites and participants and
contributing various site-specific proposals.
"Topos",
West Mall, Atwood Student Center, St. Cloud State University, Saint Cloud
Minnesota, 1999-2000. Early
Integration Public Art Project, Science Building. Fort Lewis College, Durango,
CO, 1998-2000
Selected as the public artist to collaborate with the design team to develop the
public art component for this new
building within the Science Complex.
Historic
Arkansas Riverwalk Project. Pueblo, CO 1998-1999
Selected as the site artist to contribute sculptural character to block long
selection of this urban riverfront
restoration project, including the creation of a major water feature.
"Spiral
Code", Ross Hall, University of Northern Colorado, Greeley, CO, 1998-1999
Sculptural seating cut into the landscape, the shapes evoking the curving forms
of the double helix.
Fountains,
the Courtyard at Rock Springs, Maryland, 1996
A pair of stone basins in an exterior courtyard of an office building by Pie,
Cobb, and Freed. A collaboration with
Michael Vergason Landscape Architects, Virginia. Recent
Exhibitions:
Eco-Revelatory
Design: Nature Constructed / Nature Revealed, University of Illinois Art
Museum, September 1998
A major exhibition of 10 ecological designers traveling to Chicago, Boston, New
York, Minneapolis, and
San Francisco.
Expanding
Environments, Brunnier Art Museum, Iowa State University, March-June 1998
One of seven artists from across the United States selected for this
environmental art exhibitions and video
catalogue with artist interviews.
Visiting
Artist / Lecturer Rhode
Island School of Design, University of Illinois, University of Minnesota,
Colorado State University, Iowa State University, Kansas State University,
University of Kansas, Illinois Institute of Technology in Italy Program.
Fountain of large granite slabs inspired by the topography of the campus that
runs along banks of the Mississippi River.