Meeting Place

A public art project located in Avondale, AZ

Meeting Place is an installation featuring 40 tons of massive Kino blue boulders. It was thrilling to discover the quarry where these boulders were mined. These magnificent boulders were transported to the site from a quarry near Florence, AZ, the site adjacent to a former copper mine. The boulders are rimed with turquoise, malachite, and lapis. The boulders are placed in a ring, around a steel plate etched with the path of boulders from the living rock of the mountain to their new home adjacent to the meeting place of the Gila, Agua Fria, and Salt Rivers, the Tres Rios nature preserve. The work will be open to the public in fall 2023.