For years, Downtown Plaza shoppers have strolled past works from noted local artists. When the mall gets knocked down for an arena, where will the art go?
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This ceramic harlequin is one of a pair of sculptures in Yoshio Taylor’s “Spherical Discourse,” which is at the east entrance of Downtown Plaza. Taylor, a Cosumnes River College art instructor, said he hopes to find a new site for his pair of sculptures, possibly near Community Center Theater or Crocker Art Museum.
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“Balancing Act,” a bronze sculpture by Tony Natsoulas, is one of the works in Downtown Plaza that the Sacramento Metropolitan Arts Commission hopes to save when part of the mall is torn down to make way for the new Kings arena. And an architecture preservation group is asking that a few of the plaza’s terra cotta wall panels, top, be preserved.
