City of Tempe Public Art

The Broadway Road Streetscape public art, Hedgerow, pays homage to the hedge of sour orange trees that once lined the north side of the Broadway between Mill Avenue and Rural Road. The privacy wall that has taken their place has been cleverly enhanced to create the sense of a hedge of orange trees. Within the privacy wall setbacks are 123 steel "tree profiles" and 1,250 square "pixels" in various hues of green and orange, recalling the orange trees that had previously served as a natural divider. Continuing the orange tree motif, Morse Code patterns spell out "orange trees" and "blossoms" in repeated sections.  

Laurie Lundquist is a public artist with a deep interest in natural systems and geography. She aspires to design places or circumstances that will trigger a sense of connection to our surroundings. Lundquist received a Master of Fine Arts in Sculpture from Arizona State University.   Rebecca Ross has received numerous awards for her photography including a Visual Arts Fellowship and Artist Project Grant from the Arizona Commission on the Arts and public art commissions for the cities of Phoenix, Tempe, and Scottsdale.

Learn more about Tempe's public art: https://www.tempe.gov/publicart