Center-Light Project
name: label: Collection Creator
content: Shaffer, Mary
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content: Mary Shaffer papers
physdesc: label: Extent
content: (box 3, OV 5, 0.7 linear ft.)
unitdate: label: Date
content: 1985-1993
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: Archives of American Art
identifier: label: Identifier
content: AAA.shafmary, Series 3
objectType: label: Type
content: Archival materials
scopecontent: label: Scope and Contents note
content: This series documents Shaffer's project to build and install a sixty-foot "tower" of tubular glass in the three-story stairwell of the Blumenthal Performing Arts Center (PAC) in Charlotte, North Carolina. The entire process, from Shaffer's selection for the commission, to installation of the sculpture is recorded here in correspondence with project personnel and material suppliers and fabricators, notes of meetings, publicity material including artist statements on the work, architectural plans of the PAC, and Shaffer's sketches and designs. The series documents details of the installation such as how the sculpture was suspended from the ceiling with stainless steel rods and lit from within by fiber optics.

At the end of the project, Shaffer took legal action against the PAC due to their failure to pay her the final sum due under the contract. Records of this action are also included here.