Courtesy Buster Simpson

The Tempe Light Rail Transit Bridge, showing two different lighting patterns.

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The Public Art Network Award recognizes and honors innovative and creative contributions and commitment in the field of public art. "Buster Simpson has helped define contemporary and environmental public art," said Robert L. Lynch, chief executive of Americans for the Arts. “He is an accomplished artist and an exemplary leader in community arts. His innovation and dedication has been recognized regionally and nationally in the public art field.”

Simpson’s recent commissioned projects include "Whole Flow," a gray-water recycling fountain in Pasadena, Calif.; "Instrument Implement: Walla Walla Campanile," a work that provides audible responses to ecological data, in Walla Walla, Wash.; "Ice Blade," a sculpture that incorporates light and historical references in Richmond, British Columbia; "Parable," a "sculptural still-life" involving transport and industrial themes in Seattle; and "Tempe Light Rail Transit Bridge," which changes color in response to various environmental stimuli. "Beckoning Cistern," part of a nine-block high-density urban watershed project in Seattle, was selected for the Public Arts Network’s Year in Review in 2004.

Read more at Americans for the Arts.