Verdant Studio Digital Journal

Rambling Vanes, New Art Installation at Fayetteville's Lower Ramble

Verdant Studio's director of creative placemaking and artist lead, Dayton Castleman, created a new art installation for the  City of Fayetteville at the  Lower Ramble, an outdoor space in the Fay Jones Woods below the Fayetteville Public Library. This area gets a substantial amount of traffic from walkers and bike riders accessing this area for recreation or passing through on their way to the City of Fayetteville Bike Trail for transportation. " The Ramble is characterized as: a full embrace of the journey…not in a hurry to get from point A to point B, but rather, open to possibility…the concept falls nicely in sync with the cadence of a walk or a bike ride, spontaneous conversation, outdoor installations and gathering spaces," writes the city of Fayetteville, in reference to the recent re-naming of this area.
 
The installation, Rambling Vanes,  is a kinetic sculptural installation suspended within the canopy overlook ellipse. Steel cables affixed to the bridge structure create a simple geometric lattice form supporting 14 minimal wind vanes that orient in unison to the current wind direction.
 
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Natasha Brand selected to participate in the fifth cohort of the ULI Health Leaders Network

The Building Healthy Places Initiative has announced the participants in the fifth cohort of the ULI Health Leaders Network. The Health Leaders Network is designed to empower real estate and land use professionals with the skills, knowledge, and networks to improve health and equity outcomes in their professional practice and communities.

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Famous Hardware Building collaborates with Dayton Castleman in Year End Art Installation

The Famous Hardware Building in Downtown Springdale will feature their final art installation of the year.  The Downtown Springdale Alliance with funding from the Tyson Family Foundation has once again collaborated with curator Dayton Castleman of Verdant Studio and selected artists to activate the windows at the Famous Hardware building in Downtown Springdale for one last time this year. This time the artists, Conrad Bakker of Urbana, IL and Jay Walker of Philadelphia, PA bring a festive spirit to the windows.

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The Famous Hardware Building in Downtown Springdale Features a New Art Experience by Oklahoma City’s Factory Obscura.

Downtown Springdale Alliance with funding from the Tyson Family Foundation is once again collaborating with curator Dayton Castleman of Verdant Studio and selected artists to activate the windows at the Famous Hardware building in Downtown Springdale. This time the artists hail from Factory Obscura, an Oklahoma City artist collective formed in 2017 to provide immersive art experiences, build a creative economy, and support arts education in Oklahoma City. 

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