"Tide Field" - art installation by Stacy Levy

In the summer of 2018, artist Stacy Levy installed two temporary site-specific works of public art along the banks of the Schuylkill River—Tide Field and River Rooms—to demonstrate a little-known fact about our city rivers - they are tidal!  Tide Field places strings of colorful buoys in clusters stretching from Center City at the north-most end, leading south to Bartram's Garden, where she installed several River Rooms—wooden platforms shaped like the prows of boats, with benches and illustrations of river factoids embedded in the flooring.

Levy's installations form the inaugural project of Art@Bartram’s, a multi-year initiative begun in 2015 as a collaboration between Mural Arts Philadelphia and Bartram’s Garden, focusing on the development and production of public art projects in and around Bartram’s Garden, Bartram’s Mile, and the surrounding neighborhood.

Tide Field and River Rooms celebrate the Schuylkill River by connecting the public to the river, enhancing the public’s awareness, understanding, and experience of the river and its surrounding landscape, raising awareness of water-related environmental concerns, and promoting environmental stewardship.

Tide Field and River Rooms run through October 2018.  For more information:  https://www.muralarts.org/artworks/artbartrams/