Artists: Yanna Ramaekers & Robert Schweiger
Location: Charles B. Washington Branch
Installed: 2006?
Remodeling opens a world of possibilities! The Omaha Public Library and the City Public Arts Commission have pledged 1% of Washington's renovation costs to public art.
Planned projects are an outdoor reading garden featuring a bronze bird cage and two figures wearing
bird masks, a tribute to Maya Angelou's poem "I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings." The birdcage
will be on a raised pedestal facing a semicircular reading bench, of the two figures, one will be
standing and the other seated.
Yanna Ramaekers is the artist for this sculpture.
A geometric-cut mirror, 2 ½ x 7 feet, with words etched in gold-leaf from American literary works, will grace the new entrance of the Charles B. Washington Branch. Lincoln artist, Robert Schweiger has been chosen for this piece.
The new Washington branch is planning to reopen in spring of 2006.
(L. Sullivan, September 2005)