When sculptor Bobby Zokaites moved to Phoenix in the summer of 2011, walking the half mile to classes at Arizona State University in triple-digit heat felt risky. He learned to find shade along his route — resting in a stoplight’s sliver of it, dodging the sizzling sun at each opportunity.
“It was pretty crazy,” he recalled.
Those experiences influenced one of Zokaites’ latest projects: he was one of nine artists commissioned this year to bring shade to the region…