Project: Memorial and donor paving stones and seat coping in a garden along urban pedestrian hiking trail. Black Water Creek Park is tucked in undeveloped floodplain center-city areas. Carved and paint filled thermalled bluestone. Client purchase of the material was specified in this scope.
Client: Awareness Garden Foundation, Lynchburg, Virginia
Designer: Gropen (typesetting)
Project: Awareness Garden - Seating area detail
Client: Awareness Garden Foundation, Lynchburg, Virginia
Designer: Gropen (typesetting)
Project: Awareness Garden - Center paving area
Client: Awareness Garden Foundation, Lynchburg, Virginia
Project: Closed campaign donor recognition panel. Gloss acrylic, chamfered edge profile, polished. Back surface ‘watermarked’ campaign logo frosted into acrylic. Top surface vinyl decoration of names.
Client: Martha Jefferson Hospital, OCC Campus
Designer: Gropen
Project: Full donor recognition package for sports complex, all naming opportunities included (even the goal posts). Fairly conservative design standards were implemented given the traditional nature of the campus.
Client: Washington and Lee University
Designer: Gropen
Project: Open campaign for major donors. Detail shot of carved and paint filled icon of the university. Three ‘Valley Gold Vein’ stones made up the full set in a triangular landscape bed just off of the main quad.
Client: Hollins university
Designer: Gropen
Project: Six panel slate donor wall, exterior. Closed campaign. Carved and paint filled copy. Design incorporated into Glave & Holmes designed visitor center.
Client: Montpelier, Home of James Madison
Designer: Design 3
Project: Campaign wall in hospital lobby. Digital graphics with over a thousand names, to be renewed once a year – cost effectively.
Client: Martha Jefferson Hospital Foundation
Designer: Gropen
Project: Traditional granite paver. Sand blasted / carved, paint filled. Stone was thermal finished for trip hazard. Sized to fit into existing brick walkway.
Client: Darden School of Graduate Business Administration
Designer: Gropen
Project: The most prominent of the donor recognition work commissioned for the stadium renovation. An alphabetical listing of 1100+ names for the closed capital campaign. Sand blast and paint filled 2” thick honed non-fading black slate. East and West Gate entrances both got full set of names.
Client: Student Athletics Foundation / University of Virginia
Designer: Gropen
Project: Donor gifts of slate bookends utilizing roofing slate from original 1880 building.
Client: UVA Institute for Advanced Studies in Culture
Designer: Gropen
Project: One of two scholarship and fellowship recognition walls for outstanding scholastic accomplishment. Chronological listing of recipients. Vinyl copy on polished black granite inserts. Headings carved and paint filled metallic gold. Moldings, heights, scale and selection of wood monitored for historic accuracy.
Client: College and Graduate School of Arts & Sciences, University of Virginia
Designer: Gropen
Project: Colorful key to identify specific donors based on their petroglyph tiles. Painted aluminum with layered acrylic and multicolor screen print decoration.
Client: Canadian Academy of Kobe, Japan
Designer: Scott Davis and Gropen
Project: One of a pair of stone plaques. Chronological listings of Senior Wardens and Vicars & Rectors. Black Impala granite with heavy polished edge profile. All copy sand blasted and paint filled.
Client: Trinity Church of Vero Beach Florida
Designer: Gropen
Project: Lobby wall for the recognition of the capital campaign and charter donors who foresaw the inception of the American Shakespeare Center. Newly constructed re-creation of Shakespeare’s original indoor theatre.
Client: Blackfriars Playhouse
Designer: Gotham Graphics and Gropen