Artwork 'Glory and Defeat' Stars at Lauderhill Central Park Library Grand Opening

The new Lauderhill Central Park Library grand opening took place this month reflecting a collaboration of County and City partnerships, the arts, sports and learning.

Featured at the opening was a mixed-medium mural, Glory and Defeat, by Broward-based artist Ruben Ubiera.

For the artist, Glory and Defeat is a marriage between sports and libraries in that people who play sports usually don't find themselves in libraries and vice versa. The artwork represented for him, two ladies: Lady Glory and Lady Defeat, speaking to the unspoken rule in sports where many times, someone wins and someone must lose.

Ubiera also intended the artwork to represent the City of Lauderhill's green areas, gold sunsets, and warmth of the city, as well as their history through newspaper clippings, with the goal of encouraging community pride.

"This is a daring selection by the Artist Selection Panel," said Broward Cultural Division's Public Art & Design Administrator Leslie Fordham. "They took a leap of faith in a conceptual design and supported it through research and questions, in order have the artist bring the artwork to life."

Fordham feels the artwork represents what is important about public art, in that Ubiera was able to improve the artwork through feedback from the community and governing agencies, while at the same time maintain his artistic integrity through organic origami, sporting figures and "even ballerinas," said Fordham.

The Broward County Board of County Commissioners and City of Lauderhill partnership project grand opening was attended by members of the public and Broward County Commissioner District 9 Dale V.C. Holness; Mayor City of Lauderhill Richard Kaplan; Acting Director Broward County Libraries Laura Connors; past Director Broward County Libraries Sam Morrison; Parks and Recreation Division Director Dan West; Assistant Director Construction Management Division Jeff Thompson; Broward County Public Art & Design staff; and many library staff, Friends of the Library and the Library Advisory Board.

For further information on Broward County's Public Art & Design Program or this artwork, contact Leslie Fordham at 954-357-7532.

About the Broward Cultural Division
Broward Cultural Division is a local arts agency, one of thousands across the U.S. providing financial, technical and marketing assistance to artists and arts organizations. Broward County has nearly 1.9 million residents, 15.4 million visitors, 10,000 artists, 6,291 arts-related businesses employing 23,498 people, 823 not-for-profit cultural organizations and 31 cities, some of which operate their own Arts Councils and public art programs.

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12/22/2016 9:05 AM

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