Moorhead’s sidewalk art project dates back to 2015, when the city first called for proposals from local residents. The city council added 10 more designs to the inventory this week.

Moorhead’s sidewalk art project dates back to 2015, when the city first called for proposals from local residents. The city council added 10 more designs to the inventory this week.

Moorhead City Council 

Nancy Edmonds Hanson

Ten new designs selected by the Art and Culture Commission will be showing up on sidewalks surrounding the 11th Street underpass project in months to come, thanks the a decision by the Moorhead City Council Monday.
The city board endorsed the commission’s selection of stamps to be embossed in the sidewalks along the underpass area as the three-year construction project nears completion. Nine drawings and one brief poem will add interest along the walkways on First Avenue North along Davy Park and from Eighth through 10th Streets, as well as adjacent to 11th Street on Main, Center and First Avenues, joining other designs resurrected from the city’s inventory.
According to assistant city planner Ethan Johnk, the 10 new stamps join the 78 already in the city’s inventory, all appearing in the downtown area along Main Avenue and Eighth Street. The project originated and was funded in 2015. The cost of the additional stamps, which contractors press into freshly poured concrete, is estimated at about $5,000, and will be covered by remaining project funds.
Designs approved Monday were selected from 17 submitted in response to a request for proposals in May. They include art by Brekkin Dennis (two submissions), Bailey White (two), Chloe Cowan, Ashley Nelson, Lliam Brewster (two) and Katrina Gordon, as well as a poem by Liz Fox-Cameron: “I wake restless. A steady rhythm calms me. The train passes.”