The Giant Orange ArtVenture continues to receive rave reviews from the community. Recently the Riverside Downtown Partnership presented the Art Alliance with its “2007 Arts & Culture Award” for the project.  Kathy Allavie and Phyllis Crabtree accepted the award on behalf of the Art Alliance.

In addition, the City of Riverside selected the Giant Orange to become our gift to the City of Sendai, Japan, during our Sister-City celebration in March.  Giant orange artists Cathy and Greg Maxwell were commissioned to create a mosaic depiction of the sister-city ties that Riverside and Sendai share. Everyone is welcome to come see the Sendai Orange in the lobby of the Riverside Art Museum.  Call the Museum at (951) 684-7111 for more information.

Read more about the giant oranges in the Winter edition of La Sierra Today (La Sierra University’s quarterly publication). Beatriz Mejia-Krumbein, (a Giant Orange artist and the Art department chair at La Sierra University) is proud that her orange, sponsored by the Kiwanis of Uptown Riverside, will be donated to the new Centro de Los Ninos Children’s Center when it is built later this year.  Until then, you can see it on the La Sierra campus.  Nearly half the Giant Oranges will grace public places when they are all permanently installed.

 These Giant Oranges are now at their permanent locations listed below:

• “Juicy Scoop” - front of the Press-Enterprise
• “The Golden City of the Orange, Riverside, CA” - Bank of America on 14th & Main
• “The Life at Riverside” - lobby of Service Plus Credit Union in University Village
• “Our Emerging City” - lobby of Best, Best, & Krieger
• “The Space Orange” - lobby of Security Bank of California
• “The Awakening Muse” - entrance to the Riverside Marriott
• “The Journey of Eliza’s Orange Trees, 1874” - front of the Riverside Metropolitan Museum
• “The Fruit Stand” - Gless Ranch fruit stand
• “The Long and Rinding Road” - Dutton Motor Company
• “Innkeeper’s Dream” - mall in front of the Mission Inn
• “Under the Citrus Sun” - Riverside Plaza near El Torito
• “When Paths Cross” and “Pieces of Peace: A Global Warning” - park located in Glen Avon next to the offices of the Center for Community Action and Environmental Justice,
• “Reflections” - front of Provident Savings Bank
• “Riverside … And All That Jazz,” - a private home.
• “Hot Rod Orange” - a private home
• “Oran-Orange #103” - a private home
• “Picked by Hand” - lobby of the Casa Blanca Family Learning Center
• “Orange Glow” - a private home
• “La Naranja” - a private home
• “Riverside Gold” - Riverside Convention Center
• “Welcome to Riverside” - on the downtown mall between 10 & University Avenue
• “The Gemmed Orange” - lobby of the main branch of the Riverside Public Library
• “The Squeeze” - a private home
• “The Seeds” currently on display at La Sierra University, eventually moving to its permanent location at the Centro de Ninos Child-Care Center planned at Bordwell Park
• “Mother Nature and Sustainability” - community of Dos Lagos in Corona
• “The Great Crate” - Corona-College Heights Orange and Lemon Association
• “Riverside: Vision of an Enlightened City” - a private home
• “Museum of Modern Oranges: - new Orange Crest Library (in storage until library completed)
• “Untitled #658” - Pacific Motorworks, Main and Garnet
• “Bearing Fruit” - in storage & waiting to be shipped to Canada