Designing For Opera, Ballet – And Kids’ Hospital Wards

“UCLA professor Robert Israel has often been called upon to help instill sorrow, tension and dread in opera-goers and theater and dance audiences.” At Johns Hopkins, he’s designing for children. “Now comes his cow who jumped over the moon — and other fanciful, brightly colored works. Hanging in the atrium of the children’s wing is Israel’s 22-foot-tall, red and pink ostrich consisting of fiberglass balloon shapes.”