The GoggleWorks Center for the Arts (Reading, PA) is a community arts and cultural resource center and is the largest, most comprehensive interactive arts center of its kind in the United States. As an arts resource center its facilities are exceptional including 34 working art studios for professional artists, four art galleries, class rooms, a film theater and several dedicated art studios dealing with wood sculpture, glass, digital media, photography, jewelry and dance. Its stated mission is "to nurture the arts, foster creativity and to promote education and enrich the community". In the continuing operation of the GoggleWorks Center for the Arts, it was decided that an extra touch was needed to enhance the building's presence and that it would be done by adding a 'touch of light.' How that came to be was noted by Diane LaBelle the former executive director (2003 to 2010) of the GoggleWorks Center for the Arts, who described how the building's exterior presence as an "early 20th century industrial looking brick building with lots of windows" did not exactly proclaim it to be the community art center that it was. In a collaborative effort, she contacted lighting designer Lyn Godley, who was with Kutztown University (Reading, Pennsylvania) at the time and is currently an Associate Professor of Industrial Design at Philadelphia University, to submit a proposal to install a permanent light artwork on the front of the GoggleWorks building. Godley's inspiration was simple: "to consider the building as if it was a canvas and could be 'written' on with markers of light".
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