A menagerie of animals and birds from Central Park, rendered in glass mosaic, can be seen throughout the subway station and its facade. "As a painter and teacher," says the artist, "I wanted this piece to appeal to children and to the child in the adult. I'm happy that the work is accessible and touchable." Ann Schaumburger's playful creatures crawl, swim, leap, and fly from floor to ceiling throughout the station in a series of friezes. To prepare her designs, she photographed animals and animal statues in the Central Park Zoo. The result is a series of beguiling animal families grouped by habitat: a tropical rain forest, a polar landscape, and a park environment. "We chose glass rather than ceramic for the mosaics because of its greater translucency and color gradation," says Schaumburger. "And I selected a color palette that echoes the colors in the station's original historic tile work, much of which has been retained."

Ann Schaumburger lives and works in New York City.  Schaumburger encountered tin miner’s stone houses in Cornwall, England and pre-fab metal houses in Amherst, Virginia during art residences at both places.  The iconic house form served as a foundation to her experiments with color. Lately she has been intrigued by how repetitive plaid arrangement of four colors changes how color is seen. She works with unmixed Flashe and Polycolor vinyl on wood. Color decisions are made in process, as she notices what happens at the edges when two colors meet. The paintings are built environment color block by color block to create visual action.