Meet the public art at Redwood City’s Elco Yards development

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... A “Beauty of Bair Island” mural by Kelly Ording at Elco Yards near the Caltrain tracks in Redwood City on Oct. 27. Photo by Seeger Gray. From playful sculptures to vivid murals to numerous nods to local history, Redwood City’s Elco Yards’ public art program was curated with an aim to add colorful, meaningful touches to the mixed-use development. Heather Marx is the art advisor for the public art program at Elco Yards, a former industrial site spanning five city blocks and currently including public site-specific 11 artworks. She joined the project in 2019, before construction had begun, and worked closely over the years with the developer IQHQ, architecture firm WRNS Studio and landscape architecture firm SWA, as well as with the city’s art commission.

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