{"id":542,"date":"2019-03-18T13:42:04","date_gmt":"2019-03-18T17:42:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.joshuarosenstock.com\/teaching\/lightart-d19\/?p=542"},"modified":"2019-03-18T13:42:12","modified_gmt":"2019-03-18T17:42:12","slug":"light-artist-bill-fitzgibbons","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.joshuarosenstock.com\/teaching\/lightart-d19\/mafischler\/light-artist-bill-fitzgibbons\/","title":{"rendered":"Light Artist &#8211; Bill FitzGibbons"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"660\" height=\"920\" src=\"http:\/\/www.joshuarosenstock.com\/teaching\/lightart-d19\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2019\/03\/img.jpeg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-543\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.joshuarosenstock.com\/teaching\/lightart-d19\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2019\/03\/img.jpeg 660w, https:\/\/www.joshuarosenstock.com\/teaching\/lightart-d19\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2019\/03\/img-574x800.jpeg 574w, https:\/\/www.joshuarosenstock.com\/teaching\/lightart-d19\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2019\/03\/img-215x300.jpeg 215w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 660px) 100vw, 660px\" \/><figcaption>Artist Bill FitzGibbons<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Bill FitzGibbons is a sculpture and installation artist that has been producing artwork for over 30 years. He has completed more than 30 installations, working in 5 different countries. He has won numerous awards including the COD Award for his Light Rails installation, shown below. He was given the title of Offical State Artist by the Texas State Legislature in 2012, and since 2011, he has been a member of the Board of Trustees for the International Sculpture Center.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.billfitzgibbons.com\/uploads\/2\/0\/9\/9\/20997712\/lightrails01_orig.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><figcaption>Light Rails Installation in Birmingham, Alabama<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>A selection of additional works are shown below.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.billfitzgibbons.com\/uploads\/2\/0\/9\/9\/20997712\/kinetic-1_orig.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><figcaption>Kinetic Skyline: <em>An installation on the side of a Bank of America building to give color to the Plaza<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.billfitzgibbons.com\/uploads\/2\/0\/9\/9\/20997712\/olaf01_orig.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><figcaption>Olaf<em>: A pyro-sculpture installation in England done as part of a performance about the history of Olaf the Viking<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.billfitzgibbons.com\/uploads\/2\/0\/9\/9\/20997712\/ondvegissulurpoemoflight01_orig.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><figcaption>\u00d6ndvegiss\u00falur, Poem of Light: <em>Temporary installation in Iceland in 2010 for the annual Museum Night. It was paired with a performance by the Rehkjavik Choir<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.billfitzgibbons.com\/uploads\/2\/0\/9\/9\/20997712\/alamolights04_orig.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><figcaption>Alamo Lights: <em>First artistic lighting of the Alamo in Texas. This was paired with a performance of the San Antonio Symphony for the inaugural Luminaria.<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed-vimeo wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-vimeo wp-embed-aspect-4-3 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<div class=\"jetpack-video-wrapper\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Alamo Lights\" src=\"https:\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/41095208?dnt=1&amp;app_id=122963\" width=\"720\" height=\"480\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"autoplay; fullscreen; picture-in-picture; clipboard-write\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n<\/div><figcaption>Alamo Lights Performance<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bill FitzGibbons is a sculpture and installation artist that has been producing artwork for over 30 years. He has completed more than 30 installations, working in 5 different countries. He has won numerous awards including the COD Award for his Light Rails installation, shown below. He was given the title of Offical State Artist by&#8230; <\/p>\n<div class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.joshuarosenstock.com\/teaching\/lightart-d19\/mafischler\/light-artist-bill-fitzgibbons\/\">Read More<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":119,"featured_media":543,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"cybocfi_hide_featured_image":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-542","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.joshuarosenstock.com\/teaching\/lightart-d19\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2019\/03\/img.jpeg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/paNkLg-8K","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.joshuarosenstock.com\/teaching\/lightart-d19\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/542","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.joshuarosenstock.com\/teaching\/lightart-d19\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.joshuarosenstock.com\/teaching\/lightart-d19\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joshuarosenstock.com\/teaching\/lightart-d19\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/119"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joshuarosenstock.com\/teaching\/lightart-d19\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=542"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.joshuarosenstock.com\/teaching\/lightart-d19\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/542\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":557,"href":"https:\/\/www.joshuarosenstock.com\/teaching\/lightart-d19\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/542\/revisions\/557"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joshuarosenstock.com\/teaching\/lightart-d19\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/543"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.joshuarosenstock.com\/teaching\/lightart-d19\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=542"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joshuarosenstock.com\/teaching\/lightart-d19\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=542"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joshuarosenstock.com\/teaching\/lightart-d19\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=542"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}