When you build a bridge, the kind ships go under and cars go over, you’d think it’d be something that always kind of stuck with you. But Bob Schraeder, project manager for Shimmick Construction on the Gerald Desmond Bridge replacement, said it was through experiencing the work of the four artists that chronicled the bridge’s creation that “caused me to remember the challenges we had in construction and the beauty of what we were building. The art captures that, it actually makes you reflect more on the accomplishment.”
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The Long Beach-based artists, Sarah Arnold, Kathryn Babcock, Helen Werner Cox and Liz Talbot, were given exceptional access to the bridge project for three years, observing and painting from on top and below it.