Artist at Work Video Series

FAPE co-produced with the Checkerboard Film Foundation, NY, a series of profiles to document the creation of site-specific work by American artists that have been commissioned by FAPE for U.S. embassies throughout the world. These videos are intended for use by the respective U.S. embassies and the U.S. Department of State. They will also be distributed by Checkerboard to its traditional educational market.

Ellsworth Kelly & Sol LeWitt

In February 2008, Ellsworth Kelly’s forty-foot-high stainless steel totem was permanently installed in the courtyard garden of the U.S. Embassy in Berlin, Germany. At the same time, a team from Sol LeWitt’s studio installed Wall Drawing #1256: Five Pointed Stars, in the embassy’s Behrenstraße entrance.

Dorothea Rockburne, Homage to Colin Powell

This film features Dorothea Rockburne who was commissioned by FAPE in 2006 to create a work for the atrium of the U.S. Embassy in Kingston, Jamaica.

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Joel Shapiro, Conjunction

This film features Conjunction, a large-scale bronze sculpture, which was commissioned by FAPE in 1998, and installed at the U.S. Embassy in Ottawa, Canada, the following year.

Michael Singer, Courtyard Garden and Sculpture

This film features the artist Michael Singer, who FAPE commissioned in 2006 to create a work for the garden at the U.S. Embassy Annex Building in Athens, Greece. The work was installed in May 2007.

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Elyn Zimmerman, Mkusanyiko wa Marafiki / Assembly of Friends

This film features Mkusanyiko wa Marafiki (Assembly of Friends), a large-scale sculpture that groups six related geometric forms around a granite-rimmed pool. It was commissioned by FAPE in 2002 for the U.S. Embassy in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania, and was installed in June 2004.