Shelly Willis Consulting

Sacramento International Airport Rabbit: 56’ x 19’, painted aluminum and steel Suitcase: bronze and granite.

Role: Project Manager

City of West Sacramento, placed on the river walk south of Capital Bridge 4,000 stainless steel tiles on steel armature

Role: Manager of the artist selection process

Sacramento International Airport 18’ x 12’, Terrazzo.

Role: Project Manager

Sacramento International Airport 140’ x 11’’, wood.

Role: Project Manager

Hallow letters, four feet tall, one feet deep, with lighting on the inside and five types of metal cladding their exterior are cantilevered over the river on a thin beam. They turn 90 degrees periodically. 250 steel bands cover the many old pilings surround the pier to show the always changing height of the river.

Role: Project Manager for the artist

Golden 1 Entertainment and Sports Center, Sacramento, California Hand-blown glass and stainless steel Note: this was the artists first public art project.

Role: Project Manager

Regional Transit, Franklin Avenue Light Rail Station Corten steel, 2015 Winner, Americans for the Arts Public Art Network Year in Review Award

Role: Project Manager

Golden 1 Entertainment and Sports Center, Sacramento, CA 11 sculptures: bronze, stainless steel, steel, terrazzo, and cast concrete

Role: Project Manager

Golden 1 Entertainment and Sports Center, Sacramento, California 18’ x 9’ x 9”, chromium stainless steel (surface is reflective)

Role: Project Manager

This is one of 20 videos that are played two, 45 - foot LED Screens that flank the entrance to the building. Willis invited Rachel Clarke, Sacramento State New Media Professor to work with students to produce these videos that will be exhibited during the arena’s opening year. Rachel Clarke worked with 2 classes over one semester.

Role: Project Manager

Corten steel and concrete South Natomas Library and Community Center, Sacramento, CA The artist translated poems from Sacramento’s past five poet laureates into steel.

Role: Project Manager

1680 4-foot florescent lamps wrapped in green acetate, 8 acres in size, Solano County.

Role: Management of the volunteers who built the grid, assisted the artist in acquiring permits, permissions, and in-kind contributions, helped build the artwork.

A temporary public art project on Del Paso Blvd. between El Camino and Arden Way. Five poets create site specific poems that were designed by 5 local designers and painted on walls throughout the neighborhood. This is one of the 5 projects. Winner, Americans for the Arts Public Art Network Year in Review Award

Role: Project Manager

Columbus Public Art 2012 Vinyl letters on brick, 60’ x 66’, The first five words of this generative sentence were written by the artist and installed in three parts every two weeks. Afterwards, a writing contest solicited three to five word entries from the residents of Columbus to continue the sentence. The winning entries were installed every two weeks during the bicentennial year of the city.

Role: Curator and Project Manager with Malcolm Cochran

Columbus Public Art 2012 Columbus, Ohio, USA The Time and The Temperature tells the current time and temperature in Tehran, Iran a city that is geographically distant, yet is in our news on a daily basis. The Time and The Temperature presents a moment in the city where the space between here and there is collapsed and the citizens of Columbus can temporarily project themselves into a foreign place and circumstance. Throughout the run of the project, there were open public forums with cultural, religious, academic, and political leaders discussing some of the complicated issues at stake in U.S. and Iranian relations. Winner, Americans for the Arts Public Art Network Year in Review Award

Role: Co-Curator

City of Columbus, Ohio Terry Allen’s proposal was the alternate proposal, but the public art manager for the City of Columbus was able to fund the sculpture.

Role: Managed the art selection process