Kent Bloomer

Kent Cress Bloomer (May 5, 1935 – October 22, 2023) was an American sculptor of architectural ornament.

[3] At Yale, Bloomer served as director of undergraduate studies in architecture for seventeen years.

Bloomer remains a professor on the faculty of architecture at Yale, teaching his ornament seminar and co-teaching the first-year Visualization requirement.

The studio's work began at a large scale with the installation of enormous aluminum "tree domes" within the WonderWall at the 1984 New Orleans World’s Fair, designed by Moore's firm MLTW.

Bloomer designed the exuberant acroterion on Thomas Beeby’s Harold Washington Library Center in Chicago, and the ornament for many other large public works, including the ornament of the Slover Library in Norfolk, Virginia, in 2014.