This Week’s Highlights:
Installation of Artwork Complete; Long-Time Shoe Shine Company to Provide Service in Terminal 2

RDU Airport, NC – This week’s highlights at Raleigh-Durham International Airport:

Construction Crews Complete Installation of Terminal 2 Artwork
Construction crews this week completed installation of one of two major pieces of art that will be featured in phase one of Terminal 2, which is scheduled to open this fall. Wingspun is a glass installation that extends 780 feet along the international arrivals corridor.

The piece combines large gestures easily caught by those walking at a quick pace with more detailed “micro gestures” that repeat travelers will discover. The larger gestures of the motion of a bird’s wing in flight, along with an insect wing in flight, are linked with DNA helix.

The piece ends as travelers arrive at the international arrivals processing area.

RDU launched its public art program in 2000 using the theme “mind-made, hand-made.” This theme is used to reflect the Research Triangle Region’s strengths in high technology, medicine and education and to showcase the region’s rich fine arts and crafts heritage.

Wingspun was designed by Brooklyn-based artist Ellen Driscoll and is one of two works of art that will be featured in the first phase of the terminal. When phase two is completed in winter 2011, Terminal 2 will feature two additional works.

Longtime Shoe Shine Company to Provide Service in Terminal 2
The Raleigh-Durham Airport Authority board today approved an agreement with CTN Service Agency, which will operate as Superior Shine. With the opening of Terminal 2 this fall, the company will become the only provider of shoe shine services at RDU. Currently, the Raleigh-based company provides all shoe shine services in Terminal A.

CTN is owned and operated by Cedric Nelson, whose company has been part of the RDU concession programs since 1998.

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