Research notes for project planning
What the project record tells us
Temporary installation · Black Rock City, Nevada, 2022
Autumn Spire: a tower with a seasonal narrative
The published 2022 Burning Man guide credits Autumn Spire to Eric Coolidge. It connects the red-maple reference to endurance and time, with a tower combining Gothic references and technology to express seasonal change. This establishes the work’s documented interpretive direction; it leaves material specifications, visitor interaction and the needs of a later installation to be confirmed separately with the artist.
Burning Man — 2022 art guide ↗ · Reviewed 2026-10-10
For your project briefHow should the seasonal narrative be communicated at a new site, and which technical features belong to the surviving work?
Big Art Partners planning prompt Collaborative sculpture · 2017 portfolio record
Tomb of Nahtaivel: preserve the collaboration credits
Coolidge’s portfolio dates Tomb of Nahtaivel to 2017, identifies steel and wood as its materials, and credits collaboration with Eric Whitney and Hannah MacDonald. The page provides a photographic record but no installation specification. For a curator, this is a documented collaborative work reference; a proposal based on it should establish which collaborators control the design and what physical elements, drawings or fabrication knowledge still exist.
Eric Coolidge — Tomb of Nahtaivel ↗ · Reviewed 2026-10-10
For your project briefWhich collaborators should participate in a new presentation, and what design permissions and construction records are available?
Big Art Partners planning prompt Artist and venue collaborations · portfolio references
Commission work: distinguish collaborators’ artworks from his own
Coolidge’s commission portfolio separately lists Alvaro Barrington installations, a bench by Alex de Corte and the House of Yes aerial bar. These named references show a body of commissioned work alongside his personal sculpture portfolio. The index does not explain each contract’s design, fabrication or installation responsibilities. A buyer can use these references to request the relevant project case study while keeping the original artist’s authorship and Coolidge’s exact contribution clear.
Eric Coolidge — commission portfolio ↗ · Reviewed 2026-10-10
For your project briefFor the closest comparable commission, what did Coolidge design, fabricate and install, and who can verify that scope?
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