Public Art Services

Kipp Kobayashi's newest work of public art "Model Colony", an internally illuminated beehive featuring 146 individual building facades based on those found in the downtown area, can be found at the DABC facility in Salt lake City, Utah.

In the artist's words: “Originally selected to represent the cooperative work that was necessary to create a thriving and industrious community in this desert environment, the beehive became the symbol of not only what was to become Salt Lake City but of the entire state of Utah. Playing off this connection between animal and man-made habitats, I imagined dozens of scale buildings referencing the many iterations of the existing and historical structures that once inhabited the district, organically clustering together to form a metaphorical hive.”

Such a pleasure to get to work with Kipp again on another amazing project.

📷 Photos courtesy of Kipp Kobayashi.

Our 2025: A Year in Review blog post is live. In 2025 we worked on projects that speak to the history of a place and it’s people, engage communities, illuminate transit hubs, and temporary projects that breathe new life into public spaces. Tap the link below to read the blog post.

2025: A Year in Review — PUBLIC ART SERVICES In 2025 we worked on projects that speak to the history of a place and it’s people, engage communities, illuminate transit hubs, and temporary projects that breathe new life into public spaces. Leafy Wader , Donald Lipski, 2025

Last month the Minneapolis-St. Paul International Airport unveiled their newest work of public art by Kipp Kobayashi for the G Concourse. We had the pleasure to work with Kipp on this incredible project that is inspired by the diverse and temporal nature of the airport community and how it is inclusive of travelers and airport staff as well as the people of the surrounding neighborhoods and cities.

Through public outreach and in-person events Kipp asked the question: "You’re offered a one-way ticket wherever you’d like to go. Who knows when you’ll return? What three things would you take along?" The many responses are reimagined here into a cloud-like composition of floating suitcases and bags swirling in the center of the rotunda, carrying within them the pieces of the multiple narratives that tell the story of the airport.

Thank you to Art Project Partners (APP) for providing fabrication and installation services, the team at MSP, and of course Kipp Kobayashi.

To learn more about this project visit our website (link in profile).

Join us Saturday June 28th from 11am-3pm for the grand opening of Cloud Nine Park at 9+CO. We recently wrapped up installation of Ana María Hernando's "To Let the Sky Know/Dejar que el cielo sepa" made possible at Cloud Nine Park by Nine Co Blvd JV LLC. As you can tell from the install photos even the weather couldn't stop our amazing team of installers.

This temporary public art project of three components is part of a fifteen-part public piece commissioned and installed at the Madison Square Park to inaugurate the twentieth-anniversary year of the Madison Square Park Conservancy's art program, launched in 2004.

Saturday's celebration will feature an ice cream social, live music by Dotsero, rock painting for kids, artist meet-and-greet, free padel play, and a showcase of 9+CO businesses!

📷 Installation Photos Courtesy of Mowry Studio.