A public art installation moved from a Rockford park to more intimate settings.
The “Screw City Steel” installation was a Rockford Area Arts Council ART FOR IMPACT initiative that was placed at Davis Park three years ago. It includes four steel doors with murals on them. The Arts Council transferred ownership of the pieces.
Mayor Tom McNamara says in a press release that the move will encourage more young people.
“We recently helped relocate the Screw City Steel installation to Rockford Public Schools sites,” he said. “These powerful works, centered around a powerful belonging message, will now reach and inspire even more young people, allowing them to create messages of their own.”
These doors are now spread across four Rockford high schools: Jefferson, Auburn, Guilford and East.
Maggio Truck Center transported the art to the schools.
The design theme is YOU BELONG HERE. That idea of a belonging community came from research from the Other and Belonging Institute at University of California in Berkeley.
The doors were originally donated by First Midwest Group from the Rockford Screw Products factory.
