Hi PAN Listserv,

This week we launched the 2019 PAN Year in Review Blog Salon where, we heard from several artists and administrators whose projects were selected for the 2019 PAN Year in Review. The focus of this year’s salon was to hear how the selected project engaged or impacted the community for whom the project was created. Considering what positive impact public art can have on communities, we asked our authors to consider: How did their project enhance the community? In what ways was the community engaged, either during the development of the artworks or after? What positive impact did the project have on the community?

We have already had blogs from Mural Arts Philadelphia’s Laura Kochman on “Families Belong Together”, Tre Hardin from Metro Arts Nashville on Trust the Process: Temporary Exhibition, Permanent Impact, and from artist Kim Abeles on Camp Ground: Arts, Corrections, and Fire Management in the Santa Monica Mountains.

Check out the link below to read more as more posts are added today and tomorrow.

https://blog.americansforthearts.org/categories/blog-salon-category/the-%E2%80%9Cpublic%E2%80%9D-in-public-art-community-engagement-stories-from-the-2019-pan-year-in-review

Enjoy!

Patricia Walsh

Public Art and Civic Design Senior Program Manager

Americans for the Arts

1000 Vermont Ave NW 6^th Floor

Washington, DC 20005-4940

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