Jill Sebastian Jill Sebastian (born 1950 in Libertyville, Illinois) is an American educational innovator, integrated public artist and multi-media artist. Early life and career Jill Sebastian characterizes herself as growing up in small towns within the Rust B ...

's Eclipse is located at Lake Bluff Terrace,

Milwaukee Milwaukee is the List of cities in Wisconsin, most populous city in the U.S. state of Wisconsin. Located on the western shore of Lake Michigan, it is the List of United States cities by population, 31st-most populous city in the United States ...

, Wisconsin 2000. with stairs leading to it off the lakefront. It is a collaborative piece made out of vitreous

glass Glass is an amorphous (non-crystalline solid, non-crystalline) solid. Because it is often transparency and translucency, transparent and chemically inert, glass has found widespread practical, technological, and decorative use in window pane ...

and stone

mosaic A mosaic () is a pattern or image made of small regular or irregular pieces of colored stone, glass or ceramic, held in place by plaster/Mortar (masonry), mortar, and covering a surface. Mosaics are often used as floor and wall decoration, and ...

over

concrete Concrete is a composite material composed of aggregate bound together with a fluid cement that cures to a solid over time. It is the second-most-used substance (after water), the most–widely used building material, and the most-manufactur ...

bronze Bronze is an alloy consisting primarily of copper, commonly with about 12–12.5% tin and often with the addition of other metals (including aluminium, manganese, nickel, or zinc) and sometimes non-metals (such as phosphorus) or metalloid ...

. The dimensions are 10’ x 10’ x 10'. Made in 2003, this sculpture is still in very good condition.

Artist information

got her inspiration at a young age when she saw a woman painting a

mural A mural is any piece of Graphic arts, graphic artwork that is painted or applied directly to a wall, ceiling or other permanent substrate. Mural techniques include fresco, mosaic, graffiti and marouflage. Word mural in art The word ''mural'' ...

depicting labor strikes. She attended several colleges and got her MFA at UW Milwaukee in 1979. She is currently working on a project for the

University of Wisconsin–Madison The University of Wisconsin–Madison (University of Wisconsin, Wisconsin, UW, UW–Madison, or simply Madison) is a public land-grant research university in Madison, Wisconsin, United States. It was founded in 1848 when Wisconsin achieved st ...

, building a new South Campus Union. She is also a professor of sculpture at the

Milwaukee Institute of Art & Design The Milwaukee Institute of Art & Design (MIAD) is a Private college, private art school in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, United States. Founded in 1974, MIAD is accredited by the Higher Learning Commission and the National Association of Schools of Art ...

(MIAD).

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