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Chelsea Trail Markers
Permanent Installation |
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| Detail of Sidewalk Segment |
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| Location: |
City of Chelsea, MA |
| Client: | City of Chelsea, Chelsea Schools |
| Size: | 100 pavers, 1'x3', on 5 city blocks |
| Material: | Granite Pavers |
| Budget: | $25,000 for workshops from Boston Foundation - $60,000 for workshops and fabrication.
$700,000 for street improvements |
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| 65 students from Williams Middle School and Chelsea High School visited 10 local businesses, public and private. The students' responses to these experiences with the working world of Chelsea have been interpreted into their own drawings. These drawings were then sandblasted into a 100 granite pavers to create Trail Markers, which will become a permanent connection between the students and the working world. The Trail Markers will be installed at Fifth Street that is the primary route to the school from Bellingham Square at the center of downtown. |
| The school has a very diverse population with a high proportion of minority, non-English speaking and low-income families. The connections with local businesses, fostered through this project and strengthened by the enduring physical presence of the art works, are intended to generate on-going mentoring of the children and school programs.
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Williams School with Sidewalk
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Williams School Student in Workshop | Funding has been provided by a $25,000 grant from the Boston Foundation. The grant supports the workshops conducted at the local businesses and the artists' work with the students to create the drawings. A larger impact of this project is assured by $700,000 already committed from Mass. Highways for the Streetscape program on Fifth Street including $30,000 for the fabrication of the granite pavers that will contain the student designs. Under a separate design contract, Haries/Héder were urban designers for the Fifth Street streetscape improvements. |
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Student Drawing of Fire Station
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Project coordinators:
Amy Morel
Shannon Curry Green.
Funding:
The Boston Foundation
Teachers:
L Cort
H Johnson
M Olsen
B Slater
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Mentors:
Bunker Hill Community College
Carbone Metal
Chelsea Clock Co
Chelsea Coop Bank
Chelsea Fire Station
Tobin Bridge
MGH Chelsea
NE Produce Center
Shawmut Printing
Washington Park Florist
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Photos by Cymie Payne, Richard Howard, and Greg Heins |
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