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Guy Kemper

Architectural; Visual Arts: Mosaics, Murals, Sculpture

Study • Listen to and collaborate with the committee, construction team, and community • Research heritage of site to inform artwork meaning • Address engineering, technical and budgetary issues Design • Succeed as art, meaningful community marker, and architectural art • Timeless, joyful, elegant Make • Make as beautiful as possible • Make to require little or no maintenance for 100 years • Usually make from blown glass or Italian mosaic smalti • All projects are installed on time and on budget Me • Professionalism and experience minimize unpleasant surprises • Internationally recognized. Work exhibited and commissioned in Asia, Europe, America, and the Middle East. Lectured at architectural design conferences in the United States, South Korea, and Germany. • Subject of two half-hour documentaries broadcast nationally in US and Germany • Featured in over 80 publications in the US, Europe, Asia and the Middle East • Winner of CODA International Design Awards in 2021, 2018, and 2013

Kersey Ceramics LLC

Visual Arts: Mosaics, Murals, Sculpture

When Diana Kersey was a kid growing up in Lubbock, Texas, her parents let her dig a mud pit in their backyard. Thirteen inches down, she hit clay, and she’s been working with it ever since. Kersey is a visual artist working exclusively in clay, from small studio pieces to large architectural installations. Her work has become instantly identifiable, due to the muscular, spontaneous qualities of the material enhances with her colorful, translucent glazes. Her public works have been commissioned by the City of San Antonio, VIA Metropolitan Transit, The San Antonio River Authority, and the City of Harlingen. In 2021 she completed her largest private commissions to date (over 650 square feet) for a new office tower in San Antonio, Texas. Kersey earned an MFA in ceramics from Washington State University in 1997, and a BFA in drawing from Texas Tech University in 1994. She serves on the faculty at Northwest Vista College and owns and operates Kersey Ceramics LLC.

BJ Krivanek

Visual Arts: Media & Visual Communications, Mixed Media, Other, Sculpture, Site-specific; public art, inscription

BJ Krivanek is a professor emeritus of visual communication at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, principal of Krivanek+Breaux/ Art+Design, and founding artistic director of Community Architexts. He has an MFA in Art+Design from the University of Illinois/ Urbana-Champaign and a BA in Applied Arts from Iowa State University. During the past 25+ years, he has completed over 25 public art projects throughout the country, including activated structures for the CTA Brown Line Chicago station, an interactive artwork at the University of Florida, and a commission for the Oklahoma City Municipal Courthouse. Most recently, he has completed an activated plaza for the Municipal Courts Building in Oklahoma City and has received a commission with the Lincoln Presidential Library & Museum in Springfield, IL. BJ’s work has been honored/ published in many design annuals, including the American Center for Design100 Show, American Institute of Graphic Arts, Society for Environmental Graphic Design, ID and Graphis, and included in the inaugural National Design Triennial at the Cooper-Hewitt National Design Museum/ New York. A feature article about his work appeared in Graphis 310/ Zurich. His work has received an NEA Federal Design Achievement Award and the Art Directors Club of New York Gold Medal as well as numerous SEGD honor/ merit awards, Illinois Arts Council fellowships, and grants from the Chicago and Los Angeles cultural affairs departments.

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