When the Sacramento International Airport's new billion-dollar terminal opened in late 2011, its cultural pièce de résistance was the 56-foot-long aluminum red hare that appears to leap into the building from the outside.
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The giant red hare, "Leap" by Lawrence Argent, in the airport's Terminal B is a distinctive piece of public art - and a rare sight in Sacramento.
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For inspiration, the city could turn to the Claes Oldenburg sculpture "Cupid's Span," near San Francisco's Ferry Building. Funding for public art has been built into city law since 1977 with a mandate that developers allocate 2 percent of a project's cost to public art.
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Rob Turner
