Quiet Storm - Santa Barbara, CA
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N 34° 24.743 W 119° 51.041
11S E 237985 N 3811567
Quiet Storm is a Kinetic sculpture located on the back wall of the Theater and Dance building, overlooking the lagoon.
Waymark Code: WMEW5K
Location: California, United States
Date Posted: 07/12/2012
Published By:Groundspeak Regular Member Math Teacher
Views: 6

Quiet Storm is one of several Smithsonian Sculptures on the UC Santa Barbara campus. It is a Kinetic sculpture mounted on the back wall of the Theater and Dance building, overlooking the lagoon. Two rotating devices have diameters of 15 and 20 feet. There are windmill like cups to collect the wind.

From the Smithsonian AIC Description:

Two kinetic sculptures, painted blue, installed on the facade of a building. The sculptures' rotating elements move by force of the wind.

TITLE: Quiet Storm

ARTIST(S): sculptor: O. Evan Lewis, (1958- )

DATE: June 1990.

MEDIUM: Steel and aluminum, painted

CONTROL NUMBER: IAS 04670011

Direct Link to the Individual Listing in the Smithsonian Art Inventory: [Web Link]

PHYSICAL LOCATION:
Back Wall of Arts Building (Theater and Dance)


DIFFERENCES NOTED BETWEEN THE INVENTORY LISTING AND YOUR OBSERVATIONS AND RESEARCH:
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