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Bay Area Discovery Museum Commissions CCA Graduate Student for Mosaic

Posted on Tuesday, April 20, 2004, by Kim Lessard

CCA graduate student Pippa Murray has been commissioned by the Bay Area Discovery Museum in Sausalito to create The Gathering Place, an 800-square-foot mosaic floor that will serve as the central gathering and performance space for the museum's new permanent outdoor exhibition, Lookout Cove.

Murray's mosaic will be made with numerous types of stone and will feature a sea life theme. Part of a major redesign of the museum, Lookout Cove is a 2.5-acre interactive play area that will feature tide pools and native animal homes, along with various art pieces that reference the ecology and history of the San Francisco Bay Area. The museum will unveil the entire Lookout Cove project in summer 2004.

This is Murray's fourth large-scale commissioned mosaic. Her previous commission sites are a 15th-century olive press building in Crete, a Moorish fortress in southern Spain, an outdoor spa and pool area project in Orinda, California, and a contemporary kitchen in San Francisco.