Proposal accepted for Clyde Alley archway
Published 3:38 pm Friday, January 22, 2016
An artistic archway may soon be installed at Clyde Alley from Third to Second street.
The Langley Arts Commission announced it had selected a proposal from artists Milo White and Lin McJunkin. The Skagit County-based artists frequently collaborate, with White creating the steel frame and McJunkin filling it in with glass. Their proposal was selected from among five applications, and will come with a $3,000 to $6,000 stipend for the work to be featured near the Third Street parking lot behind Callahan’s Firehouse, Useless Bay Coffee Company and Langley Village.
“The Arts Commission is very pleased with this selection and believe this will create a startling visual impact on Clyde Alley,” said Frank Rose, chairman of the commission, in an emailed news release.
White and McJunkin’s proposal shows an archway made of three separate steel pieces. Only one is a complete arch, while the other two reach upward as if two-thirds of another semicircle. Included with the metal arches are several glass panes filling the circular lattice.
The alley archway is just the latest in a string of projects pursued by the arts commission. The most visible are the sculptures on Second Street’s plaza between Cascade and Anthes avenues. Other sites are being identified for sculptures and other outdoor galleries, as well as a trail of the city’s inventoried publicly viewable art.
