FOOTHILL GOLD LINE - Key Persons
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- Member of the Non - Voting
Mr. Wapner currently serves as Mayor Pro Temp in the City of Ontario.
Myklebust and Sears create context-driven sculptural works, which are made meaningful by reflecting the natural and cultural histories of their sites. Because each project is shaped by the needs of its end-users and the special circumstances of its location, the artists do not develop designs for a project until they have had an opportunity to meet with stakeholders and explore a site and its community in depth.
Beth Thielen received her Bachelor of Fine Arts from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. Her work has included unique experimental book forms that represent her interests in the developmentally disabled, individuals with Alzheimer's, and incarcerated youth and adults. Her works are included in museums, libraries, and private collections worldwide. She was the recipient of artist-in-residence grants from the California Arts Council and the Blue Mountain Center in New York.
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- Member of the Construction and Project Management Team
- Director of Construction
Blue McRight is an accomplished local artist. Some of her existing commissioned public artwork are a piece titled Luminaries for the California Dept. of Health Services in Sacramento; a light sculpture for the Port of Portland; and artwork for the Staples Center in Los Angeles.
Blue attended Rhode Island School of Design and Evergreen State College. She is the recipient of numerous awards and grants including the Downtown Cultural Trust Fund Grant through the L.A. County Redevelopment Agency, a Cultural Grant from the City of Los Angeles, and two Artist Grants from the Santa Fe Arts Council in New Mexico.
Based on her preliminary design concept, Blue was selected by the city La Verne's Station Design and Art Review (SDAR) Committee, later ratified by the city council, in 2005. As the Foothill Gold Line from Glendora to Montclair continues to move from planning to reality, Blue has taken her preliminary design concept and work with the SDAR Committee and La Verne community, and advanced the design to be incorporated into the project's construction.
Bonita Ave/Cataract Ave Intersection Bridge
The California Public Utilities Commission (CPUC) is responsible for reviewing and approving all grade crossings in the State of California where a train is proposed to cross a street or pedestrian walkway. As part of the CPUC's extensive review process for the Foothill Gold Line project, the regulatory agency has required that a new bridge be built over the intersection of Bonita Ave/Cataract Ave in the City of San Dimas for the Gold Line only. The bridge is being required for safety of both the new light rail system and the city streets; as the result of an estimated 200+ Gold Line trains crossing this intersection each day in the future.
As part of the CPUC approval, the existing freight track will be relocated within the existing railroad corridor and remain at street level; and the intersection of Bonita Ave/Cataract Ave will be reconfigured to improve safety and visibility. Monte Vista Avenue will be permanently closed to vehicular traffic, and a pedestrian walkway will be built through the bridge structure.
Cha-Rie Tang is a Pasadena-based artist who has created commissioned artwork for Pasadena's A.R.T. Bus, the City of Los Angeles Public Library at Exposition Park, Los Angeles County Hall of Administration, City of Mission Viejo Arts Alive Festivals, among others. Her experience is focused on the use of ceramic tiles and glass, combining her artistic and architectural training to form exquisite compositions that celebrate our time and place in context with nature.
Cha-Rie received her B.S. in Art & Design from MIT and her Masters in Architecture from the University of Colorado at Boulder. She has also attended the University of Washington at Seattle and the Art Center College of Design in Pasadena. She continues to teach periodically.
Cha-Rie was nominated for the 1996 Computerworld/Smithsonian Award for excellence in incorporating technology and culture for her work as principal on the Direct Imagination team that published the Grammar of Ornament CD-ROM. She was included in The Pasadena Foothills Magazine's 50 Creative People of 2011, and Best Glass Artist Worldwide in 2011.
Cheri Gaulke earned a Master of Arts in Feminist Art/Education from Goddard College in Los Angeles. Early in her career she participated in performance artist Rachel Rosenthal's Instant Theatre, and the Feminist Studio Workshop at The Woman's Building in Los Angeles. She co-founded the collaborative performance art groups Feminist Art Workers and Sisters of Survival. Her current work includes video, installation, artist's books, and public art, and has been exhibited in galleries and museums nationwide. She has received recognition from the National Endowment for the Arts, California Arts Council, California Community Foundation, and the Rockefeller Foundation, among others.
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- Chief
- Member of the Executive Team
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- Administration
- Clerk of the Board & Personnel Manager
Chusien Chang received her Master of Fine Arts from UCLA. She has exhibited her artwork in galleries and museums throughout the Los Angeles area as well as in Norway, Pennsylvania, and New York. Her other works include public artwork in Shanghai, China, and two installations at the Los Angeles River. She has collaborated with numerous artists, performers, and musicians on interdisciplinary projects, and has received several awards and grants.
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- Engineering Manager
- Member of the Executive Team
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- Chief Financial Officer
- Member of the Executive Team
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- Member of the Construction and Project Management Team
- Safety Manager
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- Contract Manager
- Member of the Construction and Project Management Team
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- Member of the Non - Voting
Mr. Evans is an attorney and professor of international business and marketing.
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- Director of Engineering
- Member of the Executive Team
Mr. Reece currently serves as a Mayor Pro Tempore in the City of Claremont.
Eugene Daub is a local artist nationally recognized for his sculpture and Bas-relief work. He is also the vice-president of the American Medallic Sculpture Association and a Fellow of the National Sculpture Society. Over the years, Eugene has designed and created many public art commissions for the United States Government, private foundations, universities and corporations. Some of his public collections are displayed at the Helsinki Art Museum, the British Museum in London, the Smithsonian Institute, United States Capitol and the United States Park Service.
Eugene studied at the University of Pittsburgh; Pennsylvania Academy for the Fine Arts; University of the Arts, Pittsburgh; the Johnson Atelier Technical Institute of Sculpture; Rutgers University in New Jersey; and the Academy of Art College in California.
Anne Olsen Daub was educated at Fresno City College and Otis College of Art and Design in Los Angeles. She has lived in Los Angeles the past 15 years and has worked in the fashion industry at Mattel, designing and creating doll concepts and fashions for Barbie in both mainline and collectors. Since leaving Mattel, Anne has returned to her love of painting and mixed media. She explores the use of color, fabric, found objects and architectural elements in her work.
Based on their preliminary design concept, Eugene and Anne were selected by the city of San Dimas' Station Design and Art Review (SDAR) Committee, later ratified by the city council, in 2005. As the Foothill Gold Line from Glendora to Montclair continues to move from planning to reality, they have taken their preliminary design concept and work with the SDAR Committee and San Dimas community, and advanced the design to be incorporated into the project's construction.
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- Council Member
- Member of the Non - Voting
Mr. Masuda currently serves as a Council Member in the City of Pasadena.
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- Chief Executive Officer
- Member of the Executive Team
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- Member of the Executive Team
- Deputy Director of Engineering
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- Member of the Executive Team
- Hill International Program Manager / Engineering and Systems
John Valadez received his Bachelor of Fine Arts from California State University, Long Beach. He was Artist in Residence at the Foundation d'Art de la Napoule in France in 1987. Other honors include: a California Community Foundation Getty Trust Fellowship; a Joan Mitchell Foundation grant; a General Services Administration Design Award for artwork at the Federal Building in El Paso, TX; and an Art in Public Places Award from the Architecture Foundation of Orange County for his project at the Federal Office Building and Courthouse in Santa Ana, CA. His work has been exhibited in museums and galleries throughout the US, Europe, and Mexico.
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- Member of the Construction and Project Management Team
- Project Controls Manager
Joyce Kohl is an accomplished artist based in Altadena, California with experience in cast iron and metal sculpturing. In 2004, she completed a major sculpture utilizing cast iron artifacts from farming, shipping and industrial machinery for a Park & Ride in DuPont, Washington. Other work includes a set of sculptures for the San Joaquin Valley Centennial Celebration of the two major industries in the area - farming and oil. Joyce also designed and created the tile and sculptural AIDS Wall in Zimbabwe.
Joyce graduated with a Masters of Art from California State University Fullerton and is the past recipient of the Fulbright-African Regional Research Grant, Zimbabwe, and the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Fellowship.
Based on her preliminary design concept, Joyce was selected by the city of Claremont's Station Design and Art Review (SDAR) Committee, later ratified by the city council, in 2005. As the Foothill Gold Line from Glendora to Montclair continues to move from planning to reality, Joyce has taken her preliminary design concept and work with the SDAR Committee and Claremont community, and advanced the design to be incorporated into the project's construction.
Jud Fine received his Master of Fine Arts from Cornell University in New York. He has been the recipient of many awards, grants, and fellowships. His artwork has been exhibited and collected in museums and galleries throughout the world. He often collaborates with artist Barbara McCarren. Both individually and as McCarren/Fine, his recent art commissions include: Split Mound, an earthwork for the San Francisco Zoo; Modestopo, the Civic Plaza of Modesto, CA; Eureka, the lobby of the California State Department of Education Building, Sacramento; Mark, a linear narrative for the Ventura River Trail; and Maiz, an interactive landscape for Cesar Chavez Park, Long Beach, CA.
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- Member of the Executive Team
- Chief Communications and Strategic Development Officer
Mr. Ilomin currently serves as Policy Deputy for City of Los Angeles Councilman Gil Cedillo.
Mr. Thompson currently serves as a Council Member in the City of Glendora.
Michael Amescua was born in Morenci, Arizona and currently lives in East LA. Michael obtained a degree in Anthropology from Occidental College, specializing in Pre-Columbian myth and ritual, and is a long time artist in residence at Self-Help Graphics in East Los Angeles. Working in steel as a primary medium, he reinterprets traditional art forms and his pieces can be found in collections at UCLA, the Rincon Indian Reservation, and the Wilfredo Lam Museum in Havana, Cuba.
Michael C. McMillen holds a Master of Fine Arts from UCLA. He has received numerous grants and awards, including the 1978 Los Angeles County Museum of Art's Young Talent Award, and a National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship. His artwork is in many public and private collections, including: the Guggenheim Museum, New York; Australian National Gallery, Canberra, Australia; Art Gallery of New South Wales, Syndey, Australia; Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles; Oakland Museum, Oakland; Laguna Art Museum, Laguna Beach; and San Jose Museum of Art, San Jose. His work has been exhibited at the Whitney Museum of American Art, the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, and at museums and galleries throughout the US, Asia, and Europe.
Michael Davis was born and raised in Los Angeles, CA. He currently lives and works in the coastal city of San Pedro. Michael received an M.F.A. in Fine Art at California State University, Fullerton. He is a practicing studio and public artist and has exhibited nationally.
Michael has public art commissions installed throughout the United States and in Japan. He is currently working on several public artworks and the design for a bridge and ocean front promenade in Ventura, CA. His public art transit projects are featured in stations in Seattle, Los Angeles, Dallas, San Jose and San Diego. His work has been featured in numerous publications, including Artforum, Art News, Art in America, Public Art Review, and recently in L.A.Rising, SoCal Artists before 1980.
Michael Hillman is an accomplished local artist with an extensive resume of public art projects completed in California. In, 2004, Michael received a grant for the Visiting Artist Program at Citrus College. The artist and his students designed and created a bench and two hand-made tile wall murals. Some of his other work includes work for the City of Pomona to create a large-scale diorama for the Los Angeles Fair, which won an award.
Michael received a Masters of Art & Ceramics degree from Cal State Long Beach. His experience includes teaching as a Professor of Art at Citrus Community College since 1997. He previously served as a Professor of Art at Azusa Pacific University and was an art consultant for the J. Paul Getty Museum in 1994.
Michael Stutz began his journey as a public artist creating temporary recycled cardboard installations. His first permanent public sculpture was for the W Hotel adjacent to the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art. Since then, he has completed a number of public commissions in cities throughout the United States including Portland, OR, and Salt Lake City, UT and is currently working on pieces in Jacksonville, FL; Richmond, VA; San Jose, CA; Ventura, CA; and San Francisco, CA.
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- Member of the Executive Team
- Chief Contracting Officer & in - House Counsel
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- Project Operations Manager
Pat Ward Williams holds a Master of Fine Arts in photography from Maryland Institute College of Art, Baltimore, MD. Her public art commissions include a project for the Hollywood & Highland Entertainment Center, Hollywood, CA; and the Gilbert Lindsay Memorial at the Los Angeles Convention Center. She has received many awards, including: a Ford Foundation Grant; two National Endowment for the Arts Photography Fellowships; a California Community Foundation Getty Trust Fellowship; and a Fulbright Regional Research Fellowship in Johannesburg, South Africa. Her work has been exhibited nationally and internationally, and has been included in shows at the: Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles; Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; Smithsonian Museum, Washington, DC; and Contemporary Arts Museum, Houston, TX.
Artist Pat Ward Williams used people in transit as the subject for her artwork at the station. Area residents modeled for the artist, and she captured them in the act of pointing, waving, laughing, talking, reaching, rushing, scolding, waiting, and daydreaming. The resulting human-scale black and white photographic portraits were emblazoned on dichroic glass panels that frame the station entry galleries bisected by Lake Avenue.
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- Member of the Executive Team
- Director of Systems
Ries Niemi participated in one of the first artist design team projects in the country-the Creston Nelson Substation-in Seattle, WA in 1979. Since then, he has created many public artworks, including projects for the Anacortes Public Library in WA; Mariner's Baseball Stadium, Seattle, WA; San Antonio Convention Center; and King County Regional Justice Center, in Kent, WA. He is currently working on public artworks for the Snohomish Public Library in WA; Valley Metro Rail in Phoenix, AZ; Tacoma City Hall, WA; and the Great Mall Station, Santa Clara Valley Transportation Authority in Milpitas, CA.
Roberto Delgado received a Master of Fine Arts from UCLA. He was the recipient of a Brody Arts Foundation Grant, and earned two coveted Fulbright Fellowships in 1996 and 1987. His murals investigate the esthetics of color and form framed within the politics of the human condition, and can be seen in numerous cities across the US, including: the Hartsfield International Airport in Atlanta, GA; the Federal Courthouse in Pocatello, ID; the North Carolina A&T State University in Greensboro; at Lincoln High School, the LAPD Training Center, and in other Los Angeles area locations. His paintings and drawings have been exhibited in galleries in Alaska, France, Mexico, Scotland, Germany, Costa Rica, and South Africa.
Paul Polubinskas holds an Associate of Arts degree from Albany College, and is a ceramic arts fabricator. He assisted in completing the fabrication and installation of the artwork for this station.
Brailsford is the inventor and patent holder of LithoMosaic, where vast mosaics are cast within monolithic concrete pours. The technique lends the color and beauty of mosaic to the scale and durability of traditional concrete. Working with her partner, Wick Alexander, and a large design team, she is just finishing an urban centerpiece for the City of Lemon Grove, CA, utilizing LithoMosaic, alternative energy and all things "Pioneer Modern."
Ms. Carder currently serves as a Council Member in the City of La Verne.
Ruth Ann Anderson is an accomplished artist based in Southern California. Some of her works include a life-size sculpture for the Lincoln Heights/Cypress Park Gold Line station; and In Living Memory, a public eco-art project using the memories of senior citizens to recall the environment of Los Angeles 50-70 years ago recorded on posters for Los Angeles bus shelters.
Ruth Ann graduated from California State University Long Beach with a Masters of Fine Arts. She is the past recipient of numerous grants and awards including a Metro Transportation Authority Award, City of Los Angeles Cultural Affairs Grant, and LACE (an Interdisciplinary Grant through the Nation Endowment of the Arts). She currently teaches art classes at California State University, Northridge.
Based on Ruth Ann's preliminary design concept, she was selected by the city of Montclair's Station Design and Art Review (SDAR) Committee, later ratified by the city council, in 2005. As the Foothill Gold Line from Glendora to Montclair continues to move from planning to reality, Ruth Ann has taken her preliminary design concept and work with the SDAR Committee and Montclair community, and advanced the design to be incorporated into the project's construction.
The San Dimas station is part of the Foothill Gold Line light rail project from Glendora to Montclair, and will be located east of San Dimas Avenue between Bonita Avenue and Arrow Highway. The station will be a center platform station, with light rail tracks on either side (one for westbound and one for eastbound trains). The San Dimas station will have an associated parking facility, and have amenities for riders arriving by walking, bicycle, bus and drop-off.
Once completed, three tracks will run through the City of San Dimas within the shared rail corridor - the two light rail tracks will be located in the south portion for the Gold Line and the one freight track will be on the north. While the two systems will share the rail corridor, light rail trains and freight trains do not share tracks.
A native of Pomona Valley, Stephen Farley is an accomplished artist based in Tucson, Arizona. He has an extensive resume of community-based public art projects across the U.S. His current work includes creating varied art features at the two main light-rail stations in Downtown Phoenix. He invented a new process for translating photographs to ceramic tile called tilography, which he has used for two four-story murals at the One University Government Center in Broward County, Florida, and 18 large vertical murals at the Gardner Community Center in San Jose, California.
Stephen Farley has gathered images and stories over the last few years and has created a website with more information about his station art program. To view submissions or to learn more, go to www.pomonapeoplepower.com.
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- Member of the Construction and Project Management Team
- Member of the Executive Team
Teddy Sandoval received his Bachelor of Arts from Cal State Long Beach. His work has been exhibited in galleries throughout California, Arizona, Texas, Colorado, New Mexico, Illinois, Michigan, Florida, and Washington, DC. His work was included in the Color Xerox Show in Calgary, Canada, in American Pop Culture Images Today in Tokyo, Japan, and in Viva la Frida: Fridomania at the Diego Rivera Studio Museum in Mexico City. Teddy died in 1995 after completing the design concept for the station.
Mr. Sandoval currently serves as a Mayor in the City of Pomona.
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- Member of the Non - Voting
Mr. Tavares currently serves as the District 7 Director of Caltrans.
Tony Gleaton has pursued an artistic career as a photographer since 1974. His interest in rodeo performers and black and Native American cowboys influenced a series of portraits of African-, Native-, Euro-, Mexican, and Mexican-American cowboys shot throughout Texas, Colorado, Nevada, Idaho, Kansas, and Colorado. His relationship with the Tarahumara Indians of Northern Mexico influenced a body of work shown in Mexico, Cuba, and the US by the Smithsonian Institution Traveling Exhibition Service. He is the recipient of a Durfee Foundation Award, and a grant from the Samoan Archives of the Oceanside Public Library to photograph present day American Samoa.
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