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Recent News: Public Art, Art in Public Places, Parks
April 27, 2010
New Standard and Tool To Measure Impact of Design
A group of architects, designers, activists and community leaders recently unveiled a new standard and online tool to measure the impact of design.
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April 16, 2010
Platforms for Participation at FPAA 138th Meeting
"Platforms for Participation" is the title of an illustrated talk by public media artist Rafael Lozano-Hemmer at the 138th Annual Meeting of the Fairmount Park Art Association in Philadelphia, Pa., May 3, 2010.
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April 12, 2010
Government Supports Art for Social Change
Hugo Chávez's government in Venezuela is supporting an army of street artists whose murals are a central element of its promotion of the state ideology.
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March 29, 2010
Call for Participation: FIGMENT, N.Y., Boston
FIGMENT, a large-scale, grassroots, volunteer, annual arts celebration, is calling for proposals for its 2010 events in New York City and Boston.
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March 19, 2010
New York City To Get a New Event Horizon
Last week the New York City Police Department pre-emptively reassured the public that the figures in a Manhattan Antony Gormley public art installation were not jumpers on the verge of committing suicide.
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Adrian Fisher: Locomotive Labyrinth:
Fisher's three-acre crop-art maze. First published in High Performance #75, Vol. XX, No. 1, 1997.
(December 1999)
An Accidental Community Artist: The Making of the PhotoBooth Project:
Putting whole communities into the picture.
By Christopher Irion
(August 2008)
Art Action for Social Change: Kids on the Hill:
A theory of change in three parts: Experiential Education, Art Action, Civic Engagement.
By Mark Carter and Rebecca Yenawine
(August 2008)
Between the Diaspora and the Crinoline: An Interview with Bonnie Sherk:
The environmental performance sculptor discusses public art whose material is private space. Published in High Performance #15, Vol. IV, No. 3, 1981.
By Linda Frye Burnham
(September 2002)
Book Review: Art and Upheaval: Artists on the World Frontlines:
What are the roles that artists can play in the midst of severe violence?
By Craig Zelizer
(July 2008)
Community Works: Sambo Mockbee and the Rural Studio:
A eulogy for a citizen architect.
By Bruce Lindsey
(September 2007)
Ecoartists: Engaging Communities in a New Metaphor:
Six ecoart projects where artists and communities are co-learners and co-creators.
By Patricia Watts
(January 2005)
For What It's Worth: Uncovering the Hidden Value in Work:
Monuments in a Massachusetts park to a waitress, a professor, a trash collector, a librarian and a grocer.
By Lara Lepionka
(April 2007)
Fostering Commitment: The Community Arts Corps:
AmeriCorps and MICA take art students into their Baltimore communities.
By Kara McDonagh
(August 2008)
Fugitive Sites, Fugitive Meanings:
Review of "Fugitive Sites: New Contemporary Art Projects for San Diego-Tijuana."
By Arlene Goldbard
(May 2003)
Going Green with Public Art Policy:
Critical questions about the relationship between environmental sustainability and the arts.
By Elizabeth Bostwick
(December 2008)
Herstory: Spider Woman Series:
A New York sculptor relates her web imagery to Native American spirituality.
By Donna Henes
(March 2005)
Interposing on the Collective Culture through the Arts: A Case Study of One University Course:
What if artists merged discussions about formal aesthetics and the elements and principles of art/design with discussions about moral growth and public good? From Community Arts Perspectives, Vol. 1, No. 1.
By Rachel Marie-Crane Williams
(June 2008)
Latitude 32° – Navigating Home:
On Lacy's performance/installation community arts work at 2003 Spoleto Festival USA.
By Suzanne Lacy
(October 2003)
Making Art/Making Home:
Essays and discussions from Alternate ROOTS collaboration with 2003 Spoleto Festival USA.
(October 2003)
Marisela Norte and Willie Garcia: Metro Art:
Two artists carry out a Los Angeles bus poster project. Published in High Performance #75, Vol. XX, No. 1, 1997.
(December 1999)
Moira Hahn:
Profile of an artist whose work has led her to environmental activism. First published in High Performance #62, Vol. XVI, No. 2, 1993.
By Sara Wolf
(December 1999)
Muraleando — Community Arts in a Havana Barrio:
Community-development arts project in the streets of Cuba.
By Henri Ewaskio
(July 2004)
Neighborhood-based Cultural Programs and the Emerging Eco-industrial Era:
The practices, tools and techniques employed in community-based art are symbiotic with the green-job training process and struggles for self-determination.
By Michael B. Schwartz
(October 2009)
Pictures on the Land: Dutchess County "Farm Again" crop art:
Crop art as community development. This story was first published in High Performance #68, Vol. XVII, No. 4, 1994.
By Steven Durland
(December 1999)
Practicing in Public:
On the "Evoking History" project at Spoleto Festival USA.
By Mary Jane Jacob
(October 2003)
Professional Jaywalker: Richard Posner on crossing from the studio to public art:
A sculptor talks about the challenges of creating public art. Published in High Performance #73, Vol. XIX, No. 3, 1996.
By Douglas Eby
(September 2002)
Public Art's Cultural Evolution:
Overview of the field of public art from the artistic director of Public Art Review.
By Jack Becker
(February 2002)
RFK in EKY: Maximum Feasible Participation:
John Malpede re-creates Robert Kennedy's 1968 "poverty tour" in Kentucky.
By Jane Hirshberg
(November 2004)
Resonant Spaces/Dynamic Flow:
Connecting the culture, values and elements of Hip-Hop to ways of designing and experiencing urban spaces and structures.
By James Garrett Jr.
(March 2004)
Restorative Justice and Visual Restoration in Philadelphia:
A criminal-justice specialist talks about the mural arts program she directs in the inner city.
By Robyn Buseman
(May 2009)
Safe Spaces Community Creations: The Mosaic Wall Project:
Working with Baltimore teens to create a 2,000-square-foot glass mosaic on the American Visionary Art Museum. Includes video.
By Mari Gardner
(November 2008)
Sharing the Future: Philadelphia: The Village of Arts and Humanities:
A profile of artist Lily Yeh's North Philadelphia project. Published in High Performance #68, Vol. XVII, No. 4, 1994.
By Gil Ott
(December 1999)
She Who Would Fly: An Interview with Suzanne Lacy:
The performance artist talks about her large-scale performances about rape, aging and the status of women in U.S. culture. Published in High Performance #1, Vol. I, No. 1, 1978.
By Richard Newton
(September 2002)
Spirit of Tibet:
A series of collaborative public art and education events in association with the Dalai Lama's visit to Minneapolis, Minnesota, in 2001.
By Wendy Morris
(March 2005)
Taking Back the Power: An Interview with Robbie Conal:
The artist talks about wallpapering cities with his satirical portraits of figures in power, including Caspar Weinberger, Nancy Reagan, Oliver North and Margaret Thatcher. Published in High Performance #39, Vol. X, No. 3, 1987.
By Claire Peeps
(September 2002)
The Artmaker as Active Agent: Six Portraits:
Artist Susan Monagan explores the work of six individual community artists for her Cornell Masters thesis.
By Susan Monagan
(February 2006)
The Creative Economy: Views from Abroad:
A report from the Creative Clusters international conference in Glasgow, and thoughts on what community-based art can bring to the table.
By Tom Borrup
(January 2009)
The Gentle Giant:
A Scottish artist writes about his public art commission from the Craigmillar Festival Society when he was an inmate in Glasgow's Barlinnie Prison.
By Jimmy Boyle
(June 2005)
The Year of the Rope: An Interview with Linda Montano & Tehching Hsieh:
The two performance artists talk about their one-year artwork: tied at the waist with an eight-foot rope. Published in High Performance #27, Vol. VII, No. 3, 1984.
By Alex Grey and Allyson Grey
(September 2002)
The YouthARTS Development Project: Youth Arts Public Art:
Study of a delinquency-prevention collaboration among federal agencies, national arts organizations and three local arts agencies in Georgia, Oregon and Texas. By NEA and U.S. Dept. of Justice. (Reprinted from Justice site.)
By Heather J. Clawson and Kathleen Coolbaugh
(July 2001)
Touch Sanitation: Mierle Laderman Ukeles:
The artist talks about her massive real-time performance work that examined the caretaker role of women, and then caretaking itself. Published in High Performance #19, Vol. V, No. 3, 1982.
By Robert C. Morgan
(September 2002)
Two Lines of Sight and An Unexpected Connection: The Art of Helen Mayer Harrison and Newton Harrison:
A talk with the two artists, known for their large-scale projects that observe, comment on and alter our ecology. Published in High Performance #40, Vol. X, No. 4, 1987.
By Arlene Raven
(September 2002)
Viewpoint: Community Collaborative Arts:
Community art is an edgy collective experience with aesthetic qualities of its own. From Community Arts Perspectives, Vol. 1, No. 1.
By Johanna Poethig
(June 2008)
Yes in My Front Yard: Participation and the Public Art Process:
An examaination of approaches to the public art process. Published in High Performance #68, Vol. XVII, No. 4, 1994.
By Marie Gee
(December 1999)
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" As a combination of the artist's vision and the community's values, public art should resonate in some way. It is as much about the dialogue that occurs among those engaged in a process as it is about any finished product."
—Jack Becker in
Public Art's Cultural Evolution
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