Artists Selected for Aquatic Center "Art In Public Places"

The City of Miami Springs has selected the husband and wife team of Alfredo and Pavlina Alea to create site-specific artwork for the new Aquatic Center.  Alfredo and Pavlina, classically trained career arts professionals with extensive experience in public art, live and work in Miami. Alfredo is a sculptor specializing in metals and ceramics, and Pavlina is a painter who works with glazes or acrylic paints on various surfaces, including ceramic tiles.

Inspired by the natural movement of water and the optical effects its transparency creates, their themed design titled “Fluid Dynamics” includes an aluminum wall sculpture, four decorative fence panels and six hand-glazed tile wall murals in vivid primary colors.

Some of their sketches are included below.

The new Aquatic Center complex has been designed by Carty Architecture and Alleguez Architecture, two local woman owned firms:  a prominent award winning architectural firm with extensive experience in recreation, aquatic and athletic buildings, and an architectural firm with experience in athletic and community facilities as well as design-build projects. Construction is being done by Lunacon Construction Group, a Hispanic women-owned organization with more than 45 years of collective experience in the construction industry and in the design-build delivery method. 

The Aquatic Center is scheduled to open in summer, 2016.

“Art In Public Places” is part of one of the first public art programs in the country, whereby 1.5% of the construction cost for all governmental buildings in every Miami-Dade County municipality is set aside by County Ordinance for the purchase or commission and maintenance of site-specific artwork.