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 place-making initiatives. William's site-specific architectural art glass installations and paintings are known for their design quality and craftsmanship.

RECENT NEWS and NEW PROJECTS:

• William Cochran's Cornerstone, a civil rights memorial at the Rockville Town Center, was recently honored with a Historic Preservation award from Peerless Rockville; "the masterful artwork illuminates the struggle for justice and equality over two centuries."
• Selected for MTA MARC transit project in West Baltimore; completed three community design workshops and final designs. Developing a large-scale, elevated public sculpture in glass that spans two blocks of a distressed urban neighborhood.
• Selected for a prominent public sculpture in Washington DC to honor health care workers who served on the front lies of the HIV/AIDS pandemic beginning in the 1980's.
• Completed final design work for Two Roads, a large-scale environmental sculpture for Ripley Street North, in collaboration with Oculus Landscape Architecture and Shalom Baranes for Home Properties, Inc.
• Completed final design work on Poets Walk an 1100' interactive brick and stone sidewalk engraved with 125 passages of poetry in front of the University of Rochester Memorial Art Gallery. Working as a sub-consultant to Bergmann Associates, William collaborated with Bayer Landscape Architecture.
• Completed Oak Wisdom, sculptural colonnade for Druid Hill Park in Baltimore for Baltimore's Department of Parks and Recreation. The work is a "standing prayer for environmental wisdom."
• 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 four grants in the nation –– for its urban art trail and new sculpture park. William and Teresa served on the design team for three years as Bergmann Associates sub-consultants for vision, design of pedestrian spaces, 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: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ht55NnOr7m4