Please note the date corrections for the Monument Lab webinars below.

 

Hi PAN Listserv,

 

In one email, here is a list of all the public art programming we have coming up here at AFTA. I hope you can join me!

 

 

Public Art Pulse Check

Monday, November 16th, 2:30 PM ET

Presented by the Public Art Network Advisory Council

AFTA Members Only

Membership Rate: Free

Americans for the Arts members are invited to be part of Public Art Pulse Check, an interactive program for attendees to dive into timely issues and trends affecting the public art field today. Led by the Public Art Network (PAN) Advisory Council, attendees will learn ways Americans for the Arts are addressing current public art-related issues, and engage with each other to share experiences and knowledge on issues facing local public art programs and practitioners.

 

Participants to this event will:

 

Learn how current national issues are affecting public art programs and practitioners across the country. Network with other colleagues who are dealing with similar issues in public art at the local level. Hear how Americans for the Arts is continuing to support the public art field through current issues.

 

To learn more and to register, visit: https://artsu.americansforthearts.org/products/public-art-pulse-check

 

 

Investigating Representation in Public Spaces: Monument Lab’s Field Trip Project

Wednesday, November 18th 19th at 3:00pm ET

AFTA Members: Free

Non-AFTA Members: $49

Monument Lab is a public art and history studio based in Philadelphia that works with artists, students, educators, activists, municipal agencies, and cultural institutions on participatory approaches to public engagement and collective memory. The Monument Lab Field Trip is a free hands-on activity guide to help participants take a closer look at the monuments in their city or town. The Field Trip initiative was inspired by the challenges presented this year to reckoning and reflecting on our monument landscape at a moment with fewer opportunities for in-person engagements to historic sites and museums. Different activities of the Field Trip invite participants in social distance or virtually from their homespaces to investigate historical monuments in their community, ask questions about art and justice in public spaces, and propose their own ideas for a monument. Join Monument Lab’s Paul Farber, and Patricia Kim to discuss the Field Trip as a platform for engagement, imagination, and dialogue.

 

Participants will learn about:

 

Designing public art and history engagements in the midst of COVID-19 and reckoning over the commemorative landscape Shaping remote and self-directed engagements, facilitations, and methods for art and education Building pathways to encourage hyperlocal explorations of art and culture that also address connections to social justice

 

To read the full description and register, visit: https://bit.ly/3m8KEb4

 

 

Mapping Monuments: A Monument Lab Project

Thursday, November 19th 18th at 3:00 pm ET

AFTA Members: Free

Non-AFTA Members: $49

Monument Lab critically engages our inherited symbols in order to unearth the next generation of monuments that elevate stories of resistance and hope. In Monument Lab’s recent collaboration with the Pulitzer Arts Foundation and other St. Louis-area collaborators, Public Iconographies, the studio wanted to locate monuments in the city’s imagined, remembered, and idealized landscapes. They formed a collaborative team, who collected 750 hand-drawn maps from public participants featuring over 1,000 places across the region.  Through these maps, Monument Lab encountered St. Louis as a city defined by both traditional monuments and unofficial sites of memory, and resulted in a final dataset and publication aimed at unfixing entrenched mythologies and dividing lines of St. Louis to reconstitute power, place, and memory.

 

Participants will learn about:

 

Shaping public engagement projects through participatory methods Building pathways for collecting, analyzing, and expressing cultural data Utilizing mapping as a platform for share and understand local knowledge, history, and networks of justice

 

To read the full description and register, visit https://bit.ly/3kvhQJ6

 

 

Public Art Network 20th Anniversary Panel

Thursday, December 3rd, 4:30 pm ET

AFTA Members/Non-members: Free

This year marks 20 years since the formation of the Public Art Network at Americans for the Arts and its Public Art Network Year in Review. And at this moment public art is being utilized across the country to communicate public health needs, deliver art experiences in a safe outdoor setting, understand our history, express pride in our communities, and much more. To celebrate this milestone and dive into the ever expanding role of public art in communities, join us for a virtual panel to explore how we can use two decades of experience and discuss how to use public art to address our world’s most pressing issues.

 

The panel will include the inaugural recipient of the Jorge and Darlene Pérez Prize in Public Art & Civic Design, and will be moderated by Patricia Walsh, Public Art & Civic Design Sr Program Manager at Americans for the Arts. Additional panelists to be announced.

 

To register, visit: https://www.americansforthearts.org/by-program/networks-and-councils/public-art-network/public-art-network-year-in-review-20th-anniversary

 

 

Patricia Walsh

Public Art and Civic Design Senior Program Manager

Americans for the Arts

1000 Vermont Ave NW 6th Floor

Washington, DC 20005-4940

202.371.2830 x2024

www.AmericansForTheArts.org

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