Public Art • Placemaking • City Design
I awoke this morning to the news that a great Philadelphia sculptor, colleague and neighbor of mine, Bob Phillips, has passed away as a result of an accident in his metalworking shop in North Philadelphia, You can learn more about … Continued
The Places journal website is highlighting a photographic portfolio and essay on the High Line from winter 2011. Joel Sternfeld took the photos, and I wrote the essay with Hugh Hardy. We were the first to publish Joel’s photographs and … Continued
How Philly Moves, the Philadelphia Mural Arts’ Program’s bravura gateway project on the facade of the Philadelphia International Airport garage, has won national recognition as a project listed in the Public Art Network’s Year in Review. The Year in Review … Continued
Two of my projects have made the news – Philly Painting, a Mural Arts project that I helped with in the early stages, and the McKinney Public Art Master Plan, a project that I am assisting Via Partnership with. Philly … Continued
We’ve been doing research into the way that other researchers document the value of public art, and discovered a report published last year by the American Planning Association on that topic. The report calls out Arlington County’s public art program … Continued
Last night I joined a faculty retreat at Pratt Institute’s Program for Planning and Sustainable Development. The question at hand: How can the school strengthen its teaching about everything to do with the public realm? Should the school offer a … Continued
Next week I will be working in Tacoma with Robert Gay and Lucy Begg, of Thoughtbarn, on a public art master plan and demonstration project for a new trail in downtown, Tacoma, Washington. I was invited by the blog Spaceworks … Continued
Monica Yant Kinney reports on the Philadelphia Mural Arts Program’s “bravura plan to spiff up the airport.” As a consultant to MAP, we developed the concept for the giant mural project and organized the process that selected photographer J.J. Tiziou … Continued
The first thing you notice is the hands. Fingers and hands of all sizes. Gingerly painting a wooden pole. Stirring a brush in water. Carefully dropping beads in a bottle. Shaking a spray can and decorating a bucket in paint. … Continued
Completed after a year of work, the plan represents a new vision for public art that is selected and administered by the Port of San Diego. Additionally, the plan defines a new, innovative strategy that strengthens the mission of the … Continued