Public Art • Placemaking • City Design
Hollister, Calif., a small city inland from Monterey Bay, is best-known to the world as the inspiration for a surfer-themed brand of clothing and accessories. In actuality, Hollister is a crossroads of California – an hour from Silicon Valley and … Continued
Dunwoody is the latest city in the Atlanta region to ramp up a public art program, and they’ve turned to our team for help. On this project, I’m collaborating with artist Graham Coriel-Allen and project assistant Maya Curtis. You can … Continued
The City of Cuyahoga Falls approved its first-ever public art master plan on December 23. The plan, which Bressi wrote in collaboration with a community-based Advisory Committee, focuses on three themes for projects that are unique to Cuyahoga Falls: Set … Continued
Future Valley, an artist-designed plaza with sculptures and murals in Brewerytown, is being dedicated Monday, October 21. The artwork is inspired by the interplay of architecture and landscape in nearby Fairmount Park, particularly the ruins of a nearby waterworks. The … Continued
In Philly Friday night? Join us for a muraLAB discussion about the role public art plays in our newest urban parks the with curators of the Rose Kennedy Greenway and the Atlanta Belt Line. How are curators working with artists … Continued
Mural Arts’ third major public art festival — Site/Sound: Revealing the Rail Park — opens this weekend at three sites in Center City Philadelphia. The festival presents collaborative projects between visual artists and sound artists, who were charged with creating … Continued
Congratulations to Nashville Metro Arts for the recognition it received from Americans for the Arts for its inaugural temporary public art exhibition, Build Better Tables. The project worked with food issues as a lens for examining urban development and understanding … Continued
Bressi was a featured speaker in the Delaware County Planning Commission’s workshop series, Enlivening Your Downtown through Placemaking. He spoke about the logistics of creative placemaking — establishing a strategy, building meaningful partnerships, finding funding and hiring the right artist. … Continued
Mural Arts Philadelphia and Parkway Corporation are dedicating a mural, Expanding Perspective, by Brad Carney and Michael Conrad, Tuesday morning, May 21. The mural, on a five-story parking garage in Center City Philadelphia, presents viewers with an optical illusion: Colorful … Continued
For nearly eight years — in neighborhoods as diverse as Belmont/Mantua, Kensington, Mifflin Square, Oxford Square and Tacony — Mural Arts Philadelphia has been exploring the idea of neighborhood-based art studios and artist residencies as an approach to promoting community … Continued