Material: Panoramic: Sheet bronze and stainless steel. Quotation Courtyard: Brick wall and limestone.
Like the other art installations in the City Hall courtyard, Barbara McCarren's Panoramic fuses the past with the present. Panoramic is a replica of a life-size movie camera that displays black and white historic images of Culver City. The images are shown in segments, emphasizing the City's geography, history, and film studio industry identity.
Quotation Courtyard comprises four free-standing walls constructed from the bricks of the former City Hall that was erected on the site in 1928. Each side of the four walls contains a limestone panel etched with a quotation. The quotations represent a group of culturally diverse historical and civil rights leaders, including Cesar Chavez, Albert Einstein, Coretta Scott King, and Mahatma Gandhi.
Barbara McCarren received a B.A. from UCLA and an M.F.A. from the University of Southern California. Her first public art commission was for Los Angeles' oldest park, Pershing Square.
