Kim to Brighten Providence
June 23rd, 2009 3:05pm by Elizabeth LeuthnerOn Sunday The Providence Journal profiled Landscape Architecture Prof. Mikyoung Kim and her design for The Horizon Garden - a small-scale sculpture park with pedestrian-friendly benches and walkways - to be built on the west side of Providence’s Dunkin’ Donuts Center. The park will also feature a sculpture consisting of a perforated stainless steel screen dotted with thousands of button-size pieces of recycled glass. Mikyoung’s proposal has reignited the debate over Rhode Island’s “One Percent for Public Art” statute - which sets aside a fraction of the cost of state building projects for public art - but when constructed will, in her words, make Downcity Providence “more human, more inviting, even more beautiful.”
