Artist at Work Video Series
FAPE co-produced with the Checkerboard Film Foundation, NY, a series of profiles to document the creation of site-specific work by American artists that have been commissioned by FAPE for U.S. embassies throughout the world.
Ellsworth Kelly & Sol LeWitt
In February 2008, Ellsworth Kelly’s forty-foot-high stainless steel totem was permanently installed in the courtyard garden of the U.S. Embassy in Berlin, Germany. At the same time, a team from Sol LeWitt’s studio installed Wall Drawing #1256: Five Pointed Stars, in the embassy’s Behrenstra?e entrance.
Dorothea Rockburne, Homage to Colin Powell
This film features Dorothea Rockburne who was commissioned by FAPE in 2006 to create a work for the atrium of the U.S. Embassy in Kingston, Jamaica.
Joel Shapiro, Conjunction
This film features Conjunction, a large-scale bronze sculpture, which was commissioned by FAPE in 1998, and installed at the U.S. Embassy in Ottawa, Canada, the following year.
Michael Singer, Courtyard Garden and Sculpture
This film features the artist Michael Singer, who FAPE commissioned in 2006 to create a work for the garden at the U.S. Embassy Annex Building in Athens, Greece. The work was installed in May 2007.
Elyn Zimmerman, Mkusanyiko wa Marafiki/Assembly of Friends
This film features Mkusanyiko wa Marafiki / Assembly of Friends, a large-scale sculpture that groups six related geometric forms around a granite-rimmed pool. It was commissioned by FAPE in 2002 for the U.S. Embassy in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania, and was installed in June 2004.
Robert Storr Speaks About the Collection at the U.S. Embassy in Berlin, Germany
In 2012 Robert Storr, Chairman of FAPE’s Professional Fine Arts Committee and Dean of the Yale School of Art, visited the U.S. Embassy in Berlin, Germany, to install a series of prints by Jackson Pollock. While at the embassy, Mr. Storr made a presentation to staff about the Collection, and was filmed talking about some of the key works by artists such as Jackson Pollock, Sol LeWitt, Ellsworth Kelly, Andy Warhol, the Gee’s Bend artists, among others.