Hive (Bleecker Street) is a light installation for the Bleecker Street Station by Leo Villareal. The LED sculpture takes the form of a honeycomb, dramatically filling an architectural space in the shape of an ellipse above the stairs.
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Wilmer Wilson IV’s public performance art series 'Henry “Box” Brown: FOREVER' was inspired by the historic figure Henry “Box” Brown, a 19th century slave from Richmond, Virginia, who mailed himself to freedom in the north. Wilson's work was recognized by the 2013 Public Art Network Year in Review.
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A collaboration between Janet Zweig and el dorado architects of Kansas City, Prairie Logic is a full-scale boxcar and a planted prairie resting on 25,000 square feet of the public rooftop of a six story building in downtown Kansas City. The boxcar doorway, when opened, becomes a proscenium stage for performances.
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Media artist Ben Rubin created the work And That's The Way It Is for The University of Texas’s College of Communication. Rubin create a six-channel video piece that is a meditation on 21st century broadcast journalism. The work was recognized by the 2013 Public Art Network Year in Review.
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Sculptor Gary Bates describes his work and its connection to the environment. His sculpture Rain Scale was recognized by the 2010 Public Art Network Year in Review.
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Natural Rhythm, artist Lucy Slivinski's environmentally friendly sculptural screen for the St. Cloud Library (St. Cloud, Minnesota) was recognized by the 2009 Public Art Network Year in Review.
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Artist Toney Tasset created Magnolias for Pittsburgh, located in the heart of Downtown Pittsburgh's revitalized Cultural District. It was recognized by the 2007 Public Art Network Year in Review.
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Delicately balanced at the exterior edge of Bellevue City Hall's (Bellevue, Washington) concourse is artist Alan Storey's 63'' kinetic and interactive Compass. The work of art was recognized in 2007 by the Public Art Network Year in Review.
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Deep Wounds recognized in the 2007 Public Art Network Year in Review was created by artist Brian Knep for Memorial Hall at Harvard University.
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The Buscycle Project, created by artists Heather Clark and Matthew Mazzotta.
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Animating Democracy
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Join us to learn about the recently approved Fixing America's Surface Transportation (FAST) Act impacting federally funded transit projects. During this virtual conversation, Americans for the Arts staff will review our current understanding of the changes to arts transit projects and participants will be invited to join the conversation and share feedback on how these changes may impact their local programs.
In this brief and self-paced mini-lesson, brush up and test your knowledge on the basics of Public Art administration.
Americans for the Arts' Public Art Programs and Private Sector Initiatives Department are launching a blog and webinar series to explore the private sector view of the importance of public art. Through this series, we seek to highlight the role public art can play in private sector work and share stories from the private sector for public art professionals to reference as they connect with businesses in their communities.
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