WAM Windscreens, Wichita, KS
“I am fortunate to have had the opportunity to work with Vicki Scuri SiteWorks on the roughly six-acre Wichita Art Museum Art Garden Master Plan. Confluence partnered with Vicki for her vast expertise in art and site relationships, understanding of key views, and sensitivity to surrounding context. Vicki excels in open collaboration and played a crucial role in client charrettes, evaluating concepts and developing ideas. Based on the Master Plan recommendations, Vicki was commissioned to develop the Partition Screens, engaging ribbons of weathered steel that elegantly express the movement and patterns of wind. The Partition Screens came in under budget and I was impressed with Vicki’s knowledge of weathered steel finishes. Her relationship with numerous art fabricators was a valuable resource to the team and the project.  Vicki is enthusiastic and passionate about her work and it translates to amazing works of art that enrich communities.”

Matt Evett, Associate ASLA
Confluence
Kansas City, MO

South Bellevue Station, Sound Transit, Bellevue, WA
“Vicki Scuri was selected to develop artwork for our South Bellevue Station, one of the largest and most prominent facilities along our new East Link corridor. The station is a large elevated concrete and glass structure set into the context of the Mercer Slough, a wetlands park on the southern edge of the City of Bellevue. Understanding the need to help soften the structure and nestle it into its site, Vicki has designed an ingenious sort of camouflage for the large acoustic buffer panels on one side of the station and on the columns supporting the station’s elevated track guideways.

“In each case, Vicki has designed complex artworks using repeating patterns that change in intriguing ways over their expanses. The acoustic panel project is roughly 1000 feet long and 6 feet tall; the column paintings will almost fully wrap and run nearly the full height of each 20-feet-tall column. As complicated as these works will seem, they were successfully designed to be buildable by the station’s general contractor – no small feat.
The effort Vicki has put into developing these two artworks has been remarkable, and her balancing of the painterly and practical is a great model for all of our plans to integrate the work of artists into our facilities. We are happy to recommend Vicki and her team and look forward to hearing about her successes with other projects.”

Barbara Luecke
Art Program Manager
Sound Transit
Seattle, WA

Rock Creek Pedestrian Bridge, Silver Springs, MD
“I enthusiastically recommend Vicki Scuri for work on public art infrastructure projects.  Vicki worked collaboratively with our team of in-house and consulting engineers and landscape architects to design a pedestrian bridge that crossed a six-lane roadway (Veirs Mill Road) and is part of the regional Rock Creek hiker-biker trail system, extending fourteen miles through Montgomery County, Maryland and into the District of Columbia to Georgetown.  Vicki worked effectively with a large team of stakeholders, including state and local public agencies, over an eight-year period from the initial planning and design stages through construction.  At the initiation of the project, she identified a menu of design opportunities, turning what could have been a very ordinary project into an extraordinary one. 

“Vicki has a unique ability to inspire vision and ideas, as well as the practical knowledge and technical skill to translate them into reality.  Her boundless enthusiasm, commitment to the project, and adaptability to address budget and schedule requirements, maintenance concerns, and technical challenges were refreshing.  I would welcome an opportunity to work with her again.”

Patricia A. McManus, PLA, ASLA
Design Section Supervisor, Park Development Division
Montgomery County Department of Parks
Silver Springs, MD