B-17 "Atmospheric Forces Update: Art Sales Fundraising $8K Goal for a Public Site Proposal

There is good news on the B-17 project "Atmospheric Forces" front: Laura King, the dean of South Seattle College Georgetown, a public school with an aviation focus with a large lawn area right next to Boeing Field, expressed a strong interest in the project, has a good site, and we're already developing ideas like working with aviation tech students, welders, and historians. 

It's a natural fit with this institution and it is the best opening so far in the years I've developed the idea. 

I want to use the next three months to create a dynamic proposal for the public art  including sketches, video , and that will take fundraising to support.  The first fundraising effort,  beginning with direct art sales of my existing work, is for a goal of  $8000 in existing art sales to support materials, design work and studio space to create this proposal for South Seattle College. 

Phase 1:  "A Sculpture for Ants??"

I'm setting an $8000 art sales and/ or donation goal to support the next three months for design sketches, materials, studio space and model building (think architectural models) to make a full presentation to South Seattle College on siting Atmospheric Forces there.  

Sales of any of my existing works are discounted 25% through the end of April to raise funds for this project.

This will result in a set of formal proposal drawings, presentation materials, wax and rough cast B-17 models, and a 3-d illustration model of the whole sculpture for July.


Phase 2.  TBA.  This will be a $25,000 goal to create a full combat box of 54  7" wide B-17s in cast aluminum with their contrails leading back to a supporting wall. An art piece in itself, the arrangement of aircraft in their historical orientation would occupy a space about 15' tall, 20' wide and 7' deepen. At this point the fundraising would be more formal like Kickstarter or Patreon, and with luck direct sponsorship of an institution like South Seattle College.  

One interesting option is each bomber would be cantilevered with a weight behind the wall.  This piece would be mounted on a wall about 20 feet up, and would feature an accurate

Phase 3. Phase is the meat of the project and would through multiple funding sources and grants support the construction of the full size public sculpture.