Sculptor Karen Heyl (right) working on limestone carving
to be placed on the exterior of the clock tower

Eugene artist Ellen Tykeson (below) stands by two of several clay figures that will be cast in bronze for her sculpture, A Fine Balance, that will be placed in the meadow in front of the hospital

Glass artist Warren Carther in his studio; his carved and colored glass panels will filter the day’s changing light through two walls of the hospital chapel

In photo above, iron reeds by blacksmith Louis Herrera fill the railing surrounding the new hospital's atrium. Below, Herrera (at left) and an assistant work on the decorative reeds in Herrera's workshop

Eugene sculptor Lin Cook (left) poses with the bronze gingko-leaf panels that will line the stairway in the Oregon Heart & Vascular Institute