“Travelers” - Big Spring, CityCentre, & Community Foundation Parks
Huntsville, Alabama
Public Art Collaborative Team:
David Dahlquist & Matt Niebuhr in conjunction with RDG Dahlquist Art Studio (RDG Planning & Design)
Huntsville, Alabama
2021/2022
The installation is grounded in Huntsville’s history while celebrating the city’s trajectory into the future. The word traveler has several associations. The floors of Huntsville’s historic textile mills are embedded with thousands of ring travelers that once twisted raw fiber into finished thread. In addition, Huntsville’s identity is entwined with the history and the future of space travel. And today, as a global STEM center, Huntsville leads the world as we travel into a tech-driven future. Circulating through the site, three art installations serve as a visual link between Big Spring Park, the CityCentre development, and the Community Foundation park, each installation exploring the theme of trajectory.