Hennepin Library Date : 02/01/2019 When a pair of civic artists looked for a durable material for a mural that would be the heart of a brand-new library in the United States’ Midwest, the answer was CeramicSteel. The artists, Shane Allbritton and Norman Lee of RE:site in Houston, Texas, wanted to illustrate an encyclopedia’s wealth of images in 331 accordion-like panels, and knew from previous projects that the material’s UV-resistant surface and specialized printing process would keep their work vivid and long-lasting. The library in Brooklyn Park, outside of metropolitan Minneapolis, is the latest new build that the Hennepin County Library system undertook in its updating, and is more than double the size of the 40-year-old building it replaced—at 39,000 gross square feet. The exterior

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