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Sentries Keep Watch at Wings Performing Arts Center
Pro Bono Installation Debuts at Opening Gala Celebration
Our April 8 newsletter featured a temporary installation at Memorial Hospital in Gulfport, Mississippi. Now, here is a permanent installation in the same town!
Sentries, Wings Performing Arts Center, Gulfport, MS (permanent installation)
Design + Installation: Cynthia Thompson + Transformit
This simple, elegant installation graces the entry foyer of the Wings Performing Arts Center at the Lynn Meadows Discovery Center. The center was built to house the Wings Performing Arts Program, which puts on a variety of youth-oriented and youth-performed programs in theater, dance and music. In addition, the center provides mentoring for students, and in 2008, fourteen seniors received over one million dollars in college scholarships. Wings Performing Arts Center, Lynn Meadows Discovery Center, Gulfport, MS
Design: Eley Guild Hardy Architects Construction: H. Gordon Myrick, Inc.
Speakers at the new building's ribbon-cutting ceremony included the Governor of Mississippi, Haley Barbour, and Senator Billy Hewes. The event was sponsored and catered by renowned chef Emeril Lagasse.
 Sentries, Wings Performing Arts Center, Gulfport, MS (permanent installation)
Design + Installation: Cynthia Thompson + Transformit Sentry was designed and
first installed in 1988 by sculptor Cynthia Thompson. MFA. It is from
her Free Form Wings collection, produced and installed by Transformit,
in locations all over the world.
 Sentries, Wings Performing Arts Center, Gulfport, MS (permanent installation)
Design + Installation: Cynthia Thompson + Transformit
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Dreamsicle at Morgan State's Soper Library
Technical Art Channels Light into Halls of Learning
When Design Collective chose Transformit's Dreamsicle for the new Soper Library's interior lightwell, the idea was to inspire students with art. An unexpected benefit was the piece's ability to bring light from the upper clerestory windows into the lower floors of the library!
Dreamsicle, Soper Library, Morgan State, Baltimore, MD (permanent installation)
Design + Installation: Transformit
 Morris A. Soper Library, Morgan State University, Baltimore, MD
Design: Design Collective, Baltimore, MD, and Sasaki, Boston, MA
Construction: Hess Construction Engineering Services, Gaithersburg, MD
The new Morris A.Soper Library at Morgan State University was named Best Higher Education Project in McGraw-Hill Construction's "Best of the Best Awards." We are honored to have been chosen for this project by this team!
Dreamsicle, Soper Library, Morgan State, Baltimore, MD (permanent installation)
Design + Installation: Transformit
Dreamsicle was designed in 2000 by Cynthia Thompson. Often used in temporary installations, the inner "double funnel" is typically lit from above and below with color-changing LEDs, giving a lava-light effect on a grand scale. Here, the piece's installation is more neutral, but it still effectively transmits light through the building at all times of day.
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Senior Lounge Glows with Lighting Element
DiMella Shaffer Architects specified this backlit element for Fox Hill Senior Condominium. Transformit fabricated and installed the piece for contractor, Manganaro Midatlantic.
Lighting Element, Sunrise at Fox Hill, Bethesda, MD (permanent installation)
Design: DiMella Shaffer Fabrication and Installation: Transformit
Tranformit's fabrication and installation were especially appreciated when the perimeter valance was eliminated from the project, leaving the outboard edges of the lighting element's eight panels visible. Had the fabrication or installation been less precise, any flaws would have been glaringly evident!
Lighting Element, Sunrise at Fox Hill, Bethesda, MD (permanent installation)
Design: DiMella Shaffer Fabrication and Installation: Transformit
Note the precise panel alignment in the photo above. The photo below shows both the fabric lighting element, below, and the similar glass-based lighting element in the lounge, above.
Lighting Element, Sunrise at Fox Hill, Bethesda, MD (permanent installation)
Design: DiMella Shaffer Fabrication and Installation: Transformit
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Acer Events in Amsterdam and New Jersey
Simultaneous Installation Involves a Complex Multinational Team
Transformit played an important part in this international collaboration. Two nearly-simultaneous events were produced in Amsterdam and Jersey City for the Acer Group, introducing new branding for Packard Bell.
Acer Event, Passenger Terminal Amsterdam (temporary installation) Design: Immagine Fiera, Milan Installation: Transformit The events were produced by Syndiqate, a Dutch event firm, in conjunction with Magicvision, Amsterdam. Circle Line, Milan, is Acer's ad agency. Immagine Fiera, Milan, designed the events. The project was overseen for Transformit by our agent in Spain and Italy, Matias Gravenhorst of Magrada Proyectos.
 Acer Event, Passenger Terminal Amsterdam (temporary installation)
Design: Immagine Fiera, Milan Installation: Transformit
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