The Springfield-Branson National Airport has invited artists to create digital mock-ups for a chance to be chosen for a special project. The mixed media piece will commemorate the airport’s recently removed carpet and will be on public display. The carpet had three artistic patterns inspired by nature: Water, rock and grass.
Ren Luebbering, SGF’s marketing and communications coordinator, described the carpet as iconic but said it had to be replaced.
“Since we opened in 2009, more than 15 million people had walked across our carpet,” said Luebbering, “And so, it was difficult to clean. And it had reached really the end of its useful life. Over the course of 13 months, we replaced over 80,000-square-foot of carpet with terrazzo.”…