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St. Louis Metro Adds Artwork to Stadium Station

In anticipation of the St. Louis Cardinals’ new baseball season, Metro in St. Louis recently dedicated an 18-foot-long aluminum sculpture with a baseball and Gateway Arch theme at the MetroLink light rail Stadium Station.

Metro installed the artwork, “Out of the Park,” as part of a commitment to upgrade light rail stations in the original part of the alignment. The design—created by Jennifer Andrews and Gregg LeFevre from the Andrews/LeFevre Studios in New York City—shows a baseball bouncing down the median between the Stadium Station MetroLink tracks, leaving a pattern of bounces that echoes the shape of the Gateway Arch.

“We are very excited about the new artwork at the Stadium MetroLink Station,” said David Allen, director of the Metro Arts in Transit Program. “It absolutely nails the public art trinity of time, place, and action for the thousands of baseball fans at the Stadium Station.”

Andrews said, “One of the things we found over and over while researching the history of baseball in St. Louis is the devotion of its fan base. St. Louis is a city that really supports her home team, and baseball is tightly woven into the thread of civic life in a deep and historic way."

The $50,000 sculpture is the second of 10 Metro Arts in Transit projects scheduled to be created and installed at Metro Transit locations over the next few years.

 

Posing in front of “Out of the Park,” the new artwork at St. Louis’ Stadium Station, are, from left, John M. Nations, president and chief executive officer, St. Louis Metro; artist Jennifer Andrews of Andrews/LeFevre Studios; and Dan Farrell, St. Louis Cardinals senior vice president, sales and marketing.

 

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