Artwork connects campus and Gainesville

March 4, 2009

The artwork of Brad Smith, teaching lab specialist in sculpture at the University of Florida School of Art and Art History, has been installed between 13th Street and Norman Hall.

The sculpture, “Rejoined,” was funded by the Community Redevelopment Agency and coordinated by the Gainesville Department of Parks, Recreation and Cultural Affairs’ Art in Public Places Trust.

“Rejoined” includes materials previously removed from the old Federal Building downtown. “The design, a split column joined by three stainless steel bars, was to symbolize the old made new,” Smith said. “It also was to act as a symbolic gateway connecting UF with the redeveloped University Heights neighborhood.”