Studio William Cochran projects contribute to sustainable urban centers and healthy communities. Working as a team, William and Teresa Cochran collaborate regularly with cities, design teams, and cultural organizations in public art planning and urban placemaking initiatives. William's site-specific installations and paintings are known for their design quality and craftsmanship.

RECENT NEWS and NEW PROJECTS:

• Cornerstone, the civil rights memorial that anchors one corner of the new Rockville Town Square, received a historic preservation award from Peerless Rockville; "the masterful artwork illuminates the struggle for justice and equality over two centuries."
• The Shining Dark: This community-driven, elevated light sculpture for the West Baltimore MARC station won enthusiastic approval from the Baltimore City Public Art Commission in January 2012 (McCormick Taylor Engineers & Planners and the Maryland Transit Administration). Construction begins soon.
• Pillar of Fire: the artist is in final design for this illuminated glass spire on a prominent Washington DC street corner to honor health care workers who served on the front lines of the HIV/AIDS pandemic beginning in the 1980's (with Shalom Baranes and Coventry Lighting for The JBG Companies).
• Two Roads: Final planning is underway for fabrication and installation of this large-scale environmental sculpture in an "urban medow" for Ripley Street North (with Oculus Landscape Architecture and Shalom Baranes Architecture for Home Properties, Inc.)
• Fairmont Paseo: The studio is developing concepts for a large-scale art installation in Bethesda, Maryland.
• Poets Walk: Final patterns are completed for this 1100' interactive brick and stone sidewalk engraved with 125 passages of poetry along the frontage of the University of Rochester Memorial Art Gallery (with Bergmann Associates and Bayer Landscape Architecture for the City of Rochester).
• Oak Wisdom: a sculptural colonnade for a new entrance to Druid Hill Park in Baltimore. The work is a "standing prayer for environmental wisdom." (with Hord Coplan Macht for The City of Baltimore's Department of Parks and Recreation)
• Commissioned for the Artist's Page in the summer 2011 issue of Public Art Review, the national journal of public art.
• The National Endowment of the Arts Mayor's Institute on City Design awarded the City of Rochester $250,000 –– one of its top grants in the nation –– for its urban art trail and sculpture park. William and Teresa served on the design team for three years as sub-consultants for unifying vision, public space design, public art, and public participation, and wrote the NEA grant for the project: http://www.cityofrochester.gov/article.aspx?id=8589943629
• Subject of two upcoming documentaries by Perspectives Group Media. A third documentary, The Story of Community Bridge, has been used by the State Department to inspire thousands of city planners, architects, artists and civil society groups in Iraq and other countries: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ht55NnOr7m4