October 5, 2024

The City of Lee’s Summit has chosen Everything Changes With a Dream as the gateway sculpture for Green Street, the new mixed-use development in the heart of downtown Lee’s Summit. The signature art piece will be installed at the primary entry point on Green Street’s southern boundary at Third Street in spring of 2025.

Created by artist Heath Satow, Everything Changes With a Dream was inspired by a samara, or helicopter seed, from a Missouri native sugar maple tree. It symbolizes the City’s roots and vibrant future in a place where the community will gather. It features a stainless steel frame with semi-translucent color panels that will illuminate from within and extend vertically to a lace-like pattern.

A Request for Artist Qualification was issued early 2024 and 111 applications were received. Five were selected as finalists and asked to submit concept proposals. The Cultural Arts Division, Cultural Commission and members of the Artist Selection Panel then solicited public feedback on the concepts and out of 716 comments submitted, Everything Changes With a Dream received 419 positive responses.

Satow fabricates his sculptures in his Ogden, Utah studio for locations around the world including the Denver Zoo, Raleigh-Durham International Airport and Emirates Global Aluminum. This is his first Midwest sculpture. Satow’s sculpture “Ripple” was named as one of the 50 best public art projects by the 2012 Public Art Network Year in Review by the Americans for the Arts.

The Green Street project broke ground in October 2023 and is centered around the Green Street Market, a four-season facility that will double as an event space, the Green Street Lawn outdoor performance venue and the Green Street Grove streetscaped pavilion. For more information about public art and Green Street, visit cityofls.net/Green-Street.