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Five Bronze Critters

Date created: 2007

Category: Garden ; Outdoor Sculpture

Medium(s): Bronze ; Metal

The five bronze animals installed Veteran’s Park represent five animals indigenous to Brentwood: kit fox, raccoon, coyote, mallard duck and egret. The public art was created by Danville artist Willard Carmel and funded by a donation from Braddock...

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Flowers

Category: Utility Box

The Utility Box Public Art Program enables artists to create works of art that contribute to the vitality and attractiveness of the streetscape and community, foster civic pride and community identity, and bring art to unexpected places. Utility Box...

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Flowers, Bees and Butterflies

Category: Painting ; Utility Box

In 2017, Deena Sharenko and Patrick Viera created Flowers, Bees & Butterflies as part of the Concord Utility Box Art Program. The work is a painted mural on a utility box showing sunflowers, bees, and a birdhouse. The project was organized by the...

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Folded Circle Two Rings

Category: Outdoor Sculpture

Medium(s): Metal

The Bishop Ranch Sculpture can be seen from highway 680 and is made of two rings with a split disc in the middle. The sculpture, Folded Circle Two Rings, was created by San Francisco artist Fletcher...

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Forever Growing Centipedes

Category: Mural

John Horton is a multidisciplinary artist experimenting with painting in the digital aesthetic. Residing in Sacramento, California, he creates paintings that mimic the distortion of corrupt digital files; the result is a blend of art, technology,...

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Full Circle

Category: Outdoor Sculpture

Medium(s): Metal

Douglas Heine’s Full Circle, an inspiring, full-metal sculpture, has joined the public art collection at the Orinda Library. Heine is a Vallejo-born sculptor who developed his art in a Berkeley studio shared with the Mexican sculptor Jorge Duron....

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Future's Past

Artist: Kate Raudenbush

Date created: 2010

Category: Interactive ; Outdoor Sculpture

Medium(s): Aluminum ; Steel

Created by artist Kate Raudenbush, Future’s Past is a monument to man’s technological advancement has been mysteriously abandoned to time and left to seed. In its place, a monument to nature grows out of its fertile ground. The angular black...

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Gears

Category: Mural ; Painting

Medium(s): Paint

Artist David “Hyde” Cho created Gears as part of the City of Pittsburg Public Art Initiative. The work is a painted mural of interlocking mechanical gears and clockwork. Sources: https://www.localeditioncreative.com/murals...

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Go Green

Category: Painting ; Utility Box

Medium(s): Paint

In 2022, Kristen Kong created Go Green. The work is a utility box mural of a community scene promoting environmental sustainability through positive changes in daily routines. The artist states that reducing car dependency through walking, cycling,...

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Goddess Victoria

Category: Mural

Medium(s): Paint

“Mural design and painting by Shaye Maxey and Jeffrey Geronimo for Creative Concord 2023. As a symbol of victory, the Greco-Roman Goddess Victoria is surrounded by elements of Italian Renaissance architecture and flowers. In honor of Concord’s...

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Greetings from Brentwood

Category: Mural ; Painting

Medium(s): Paint

In 2020, Lorin Baeta created Greetings from Brentwood located in downtown Brentwood. The work is a hand-painted mural of local species. Sources: https://www.letterly.design/portfolio Sandy The Giant Octopus

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Greetings from Concord

Category: Utility Box

Medium(s): Paint

Fiona M. Hughes created Greetings from Concord as part of the Concord Utility Box Art Project. The artwork is a painted utility box mural of mountains, clouds, and green hills. Sources: https://www.concordartassociation.org/...

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Happy Kids

Category: Utility Box

Medium(s): Paint

In 2018, Nancy Roberts created Happy Kids as part of the Brentwood Utility Box Mural Project. The work is a painted utility box that depicts silhouettes of children and geometric shapes. Sources: DRAFT Jan. 2022 Agenda.docx...

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Harding Elementary School Mural

Category: Mural ; Painting

Medium(s): Paint

In 2022, Sandrine Demathieu created the Harding Elementary School Mural at the Harding Elementary School. The work is a painted mural featuring the local environment, including a sea turtle, butterfly, waterfall, and deer. Sources: Harding...

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Helados y Paletas Perita Mural

Category: Mural ; Painting

Medium(s): Paint ; Spray Paint

The Helados y Paletas Perita Mural created by unknown artist. The artwork is located on the exterior of Helados y Paletas Perita store. The artwork is a painted mural of ice cream cones, sundaes, popsicles, cupcakes, and dessert sweets surrounded by...

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Heritage

Category: Outdoor Sculpture

Medium(s): Metal

Archie Held is an internationally recognized artist who has been creating sculpture since the late 1970s. He studied at UCLA for both his graduate and undergraduate degrees. The Archie Held Studio, founded in 1985 and based in Richmond, California,...

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Horse

Category: Painting ; Utility Box

Medium(s): Paint

In 2018, Emma Smith created the Horse utility box for the City of Brentwood public art program. The artwork is a horse galloping through a colorful background. Sources: Visions Student’s Art Brightens Brentwood ...

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Hung Up On Blue

Category: Outdoor Sculpture

Medium(s): Ceramic

From artist’s website: “Joe Taylor is a ceramic sculptor from rural Northern Nevada. He received his Bachelors of Fine Arts from Sierra Nevada College in 2004 with an emphasis in new genres, and drawing. After earning this degree he was hired to...

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I'm Your Puppet

Category: Utility Box

In Jennifer Bain’s paintings, she creates abstract compositional grounds with gestural, chromatically layered surfaces and geometric forms, against which she juxtaposes realistic renderings of brightly colored birds. Jennifer combines abstraction...

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Imagination Is The Pathway To Change

Category: Mural ; Painting

Medium(s): Paint ; Spray Paint

In 2013, the Community Rejuvenation Project, Peskador, Loriana Valente, and local youth created Imagination Is The Pathway To Change at the West Contra Costa County Children’s Services building. Sources: West Contra Costa County Children’s...

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Imagination Train

Category: Utility Box

The Imagination Train utility box by Tim Hancock located at the Orinda Public Library and Community Center. Source: https://lamorindaarts.org/artify-projects/

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Indigo Animal and Dame Eleanor Marmot

Date created: 2020

Category: Outdoor Sculpture

Medium(s): Ceramic

This sculpture is 650 lbs. A seated, 5′ tall tapir-like mammal, Indigo Animal and a much smaller brown animal, Dame Eleanor Marmot are part of this sculpture. These two characters originated from the pages of Oakland author Rue Harrison’s book,...

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Intersect in Red

Category: Outdoor Sculpture

Medium(s): Metal ; Steel

Constructed from 7 tapered steel cylinders, this monumental, free-standing sculpture with its vibrant, high-gloss red paint. welcomes people to the city as it stands at one of the major gateways to Walnut Creek. It acts as a beacon for people...

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It's a Dog's World

Category: Painting ; Utility Box

Medium(s): Paint

In 2018, Debra Janis created It’s a Dog’s World for the City of Brentwood. The work is a hand-painted utility box mural of dogs playing with a ball and a flying disc in a grassy field. Source:...

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