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<\/a>Artist Betsy Schulz is chosen from six applicants to create a mosaic that will adorn the new Carlsbad fire station. Photo courtesy of Mark Johnson<\/p><\/div>\n
CARLSBAD \u2014 Del Mar artist Betsy Schulz has been selected by the Carlsbad Arts Commission to create the $48,000 public art piece for the new fire station in northwest Carlsbad.<\/p>\n
Late last month, the Arts Commission picked Schulz from a pool of six applicants to create the art that will adorn the new fire station, which is estimated to be built in spring 2014 but may be as late as fall of that year.<\/p>\n
\u201cI hope that it truly captures how important the firemen are and fire protection is in our area,\u201d said Schulz about the piece, which is still in the earliest planning stages.<\/p>\n
Through a process of research, design and community involvement, Schulz\u2019s work is intended to do more than just fulfill the city\u2019s public art requirements with a splash of paint on one of the station\u2019s walls.<\/p>\n
Rather, she aims to create a piece that tells the story of Carlsbad\u2019s past and present and how important the firefighters are to the community.<\/p>\n
Currently researching Carlsbad to get a better idea of what that story is, Schulz said she\u2019ll meet with the historical society and local community groups.<\/p>\n
\u201cI try to start with the beginning, when the first people settled and then work up from there,\u201d said Schulz.<\/p>\n
She will also be working actively with the station\u2019s firefighters and the architects to decide how the artwork will be incorporated into the building and feature firefighters.<\/p>\n
\u201cI appreciate what they (firefighters) do, and for me, I think it\u2019ll be really inspirational to communicate that in art,\u201d said Schulz.<\/p>\n
The project will most likely include handmade sculptural tiles, but Schulz is remaining open about the piece\u2019s form until she learns more about the vision behind the new station.<\/p>\n
\u201cRather than bringing in artwork and plopping it in later, it will really be integrated into the building itself,\u201d said Karen McGuire, Carlsbad\u2019s curator of exhibits.<\/p>\n
When Schulz begins to build the piece several months from now, she\u2019ll welcome community members to volunteer their time and materials to help create the piece, as she has done with her past public art works.<\/p>\n
This is the first time Schulz has created a piece for Carlsbad, but she has crafted works locally for Solana Beach and Del Mar.<\/p>\n
\u201c(The Art Commission members) were excited about her coming to Carlsbad and telling their story,\u201d said McGuire.<\/p>\n
\u201cI don\u2019t know what she\u2019s going to be doing and that\u2019s kind of exciting,\u201d McGuire added.<\/p>\n
Schulz has been creating public art and landscapes for the past 14 years after leaving her career as a graphic artist.<\/p>\n
She received some formal training in college, but has picked up her greatest skills and techniques in recent years by learning from professional artists and through her own trial and error.<\/p>\n
\u201cI just got a kiln and learned everything I needed to know, and started going for it,\u201d Schulz said.<\/p>\n
The Carlsbad fire station piece appealed to her passion for creating art that is accessible to the public.<\/p>\n
\u201cI just want to create art that people can touch and that is outside and not behind a locked door,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
After Being Selected to Create Mosaic, Del Mar Artist Will Look to Tell Story of City, its Firefighters By\u00a0Rachel Stine\u00a0for The Coastal News CARLSBAD \u2014 Del Mar artist Betsy Schulz has been selected by the Carlsbad Arts Commission to create the $48,000 public art piece for the new fire station in northwest Carlsbad. Late last […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[55],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-563","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jananipriya.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/563","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jananipriya.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jananipriya.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jananipriya.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jananipriya.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=563"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/jananipriya.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/563\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jananipriya.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=563"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jananipriya.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=563"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jananipriya.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=563"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}