The Oklahoma City Community Foundation and Western Avenue District Association are the recipients of the 2016 Curtis A. Schwartz Cityscape Award, presented every two years for outstanding construction, design, restoration or renovation.
Mayor Mick Cornett presented the award at a City Council meeting this month. The award was created in 1983 by the Oklahoma City Arts Commission and renamed in 1985 in memory of Curtis A. Schwarz, a great advocate for local arts.
The Oklahoma City Community Foundation was honored for “FLAMENCO,” a work by local artist Jonathan Hils in memory of John Belt. It’s in a median in the Paseo Arts District.
The Western Avenue District Association was honored for murals presented along Western Avenue over the last two years, sponsored by the OKC Midtown Rotary and Google, Inc.
The award is primarily presented to businesses or other groups that make a contribution to the aesthetic quality of Oklahoma City with art, architecture or landscaping accessible to the public.
Past awardees
1983 - Neil Horton for the Bricktown renovation project.
1985 - Leadership Properties for “Galaxy” sculpture.
1987 - Baptist Medical Center for “Vertical Cholla.”
1989 - Kerr-McGee Corporation for Kerr Park.
1991 - HTB, Inc. for former Maywood Presbyterian Church building restoration for use as their headquarters.
1993 - Charles S. Givens and Waterford Association Inc. for “Three Madonnas” sculpture at the Waterford Complex.
1995 - Elliott + Associates Architects, Rotary Club of Oklahoma City, and Oklahoma City Airport Trust for “Iron Feathers” sculpture at Will Rogers World Airport.
1997 - Riverside Community Center, a program of the Latino Community Development Agency for the commission of “Libertad” (Freedom) and “Protegiendo Lo Nuestro” (Protecting Our Own) murals located in the Riverside Community Center.
1999 – National Cowboy Hall of Fame and Western Heritage Center for the commission of “The Remuda” mural located on the exterior west wall of the center.
2001 – Chesapeake Energy for the Christmas Lights project around Western Avenue and the campus.
2003 – Oklahoma Medical Research Foundation for the Jesús Moroles sculpture project in the entrance lobby.
2005 – Kirkpatrick Oil Company for the exterior sculpture “Four Orbits” by Charles O. Perry.
2007 – Downtown Oklahoma City, Inc. and Elliott + Associates for renovation of the underground.
2009 – Triangle Development Partnership, Inc., for the exterior sculpture “Live Work Play” by Stan Carroll.
2011 - St. Anthony Hospital and St. Anthony foundation for “Angels” by Archie Held and campus redesign at St. Anthony Hospital.
2013 – Leadership OKC for “Compass Rose” by Owen Morrel at the Boathouse District campus and The Plaza District Association for its continued Arts District improvements.
Media Contact
Robbie Kienzle
(405) 297-1740
robbie.kienzle@okc.gov
