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2008 Year in Review
Americans for the Arts' Public Art Network (PAN) is pleased to announce the Call for Submissions for the 2008 Year in Review.
Application Deadline Extended: Friday, March 14, 2008, 5:00 PM (MT)
For the 2008 Year in Review, Americans for the Arts is continuing its partnership with the Western States Arts Federation (WESTAF), which will be managing the online application process. All projects should be submitted through WESTAF's online application tool, http://www.callforentry.org/ (CaFÉ). No hard copy materials will be accepted.
In order to submit a project for consideration, applicants must create a user profile and log in to the CaFÉ website. The 2008 Year in Review Call for Submissions includes helpful tips and image formatting guidelines.
To be eligible, projects must have been completed in calendar year 2007.
About Year in Review
Year in Review is an annual program that recognizes innovative and exemplary examples of public art as selected by two reviewers. The Year in Review CD-ROM is an exceptional planning tool for communities developing public art programs and projects, and is an invaluable visual resource for public art administrators, artists and designers, educators, libraries, universities, art commissions and consultants. Year in Review CD-ROMs may be purchased in the Americans for the Arts Bookstore.
Projects selected for inclusion in the 2008 Year in Review will be presented as part of the national Americans for the Arts 2008 Annual Convention—June 20-22, 2008, in Philadelphia. All projects selected will be included in the 2008 CD-ROM.
View the Year in Review section of the PAN website.
About the Reviewers
Each year, a leading public artist and art professional are selected to review and present public art projects for inclusion in the Year in Review. This year's distinguished presenters are Ted Landsmark and Jody Pinto.
Ted Landsmark, President, Boston Architectural Center
Ted Landsmark has been president of the Boston Architectural College since 1997. He attended Yale University, where he earned his B.A. in political science, his master’s of environmental design from the School of Architecture, and his J.D. from the Yale Law School. He received his Ph.D. in American studies from Boston University. He has taught at M.I.T. and U Mass Boston, practiced architectural law, and worked as special assistant to the Mayor of Boston. He served as National Chair of the AIA Committee on Diversity from 2003 to 2005 and under his leadership, completed a four-phase study responding to a 2004 resolution by AIA “to strengthen the demographic diversity of the design professions.” Ted Landsmark currently serves as president of the American Collegiate Schools of Architecture and is a trustee emeritus of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston; trustee of the Boston Fund for the Arts, the Fund for Folk Culture, the New England Foundation for the Arts; and an overseer for the Peabody-Essex Museum.
Jody Pinto, artist
Internationally known for her creative integration of art into architecture and landscape, Jody Pinto lives and works in New York City. She has completed nearly 40 collaborative projects in the United States, Israel, and Japan, including a wide range of master-planning, functional elements, landscape interventions, free standing and integrated structural elements. She has received numerous awards and grants including the National Endowment for the Arts, Federal Design Achievement Award, National Design for Transportation Award, American Institute of Architects Honor Award “Art in Public Spaces," and two American Society of Landscape Architects Honor Awards. Her drawings are in numerous private and public collections, including the Guggenheim Museum; the Whitney Museum of American Art; Museum of Modern Art in New York City; the National Gallery of Art and the National Museum of Women in the Arts in Washington, DC; and the Philadelphia Museum of Art. Current projects include a 130-acre regional park master plan and design for the city of North Las Vegas; the redesign of Palmer Street in Harvard Square, Cambridge, MA; and a series of canopies for the new CATS Light-Rail System, in Charlotte, NC.
About CaFÉ
CaFÉ is managed by the Western States Arts Federation (WESTAF). WESTAF is a nonprofit regional arts service organization that has been in existence for more than 30 years. Located in Denver, CO, the organization is a national leader in the development of innovative web-based technologies to serve artists and arts organizations across the United States.