| Shout it from the streets! There is a new PAN Newsletter! | 
| | | Hello Public Art Network Member, Welcome to the new monthly PAN Newsletter, your connection to what is happening in the public art field! Each month we will feature hot topics, news items, and a member spotlight highlighting a person or program that is doing great work in the field. This newsletter will be a learning platform to help you gain insight into the current issues and trends in the public art field, and to help you make the most of your membership to Americans for the Arts and the Public Art Network. I look forward to helping you stay connected to the issues and trends taking place in the public art field! Patricia Walsh, Public Art Programs Manager | | | Diversity, Equity and Inclusion (typically written in short-hand as DEI) is an ongoing, and growing topic of discussion for public art programs across the country. Broad as it is deep, DEI encompasses many questions from how are artist being selected for a project? to What artworks are in the public realm and are they appropriate? Not always easy or obvious to answer, the public art field is up to the challenge in addressing these growing concerns. Some of these issues were addressed during our first Ask An Expert virtual meeting where three public art administrators discussed this topic with 30 professionals. Topics included how to find artists of diverse backgrounds to how were DEI policies developed to how selection panels are being diversified. You can find a recording of that session here, and also check out addtional resources and examples on Cultural Equity, Diversity and Inclusion in the Public Art Resource Center. Issues discussed in this section are pulled from the PAN Listserv. Join the conversation with other members by signing up here. |
| | | | This month we are shining a spotlight on Kati Stegall, Public Art Project Manager for the City of Phoenix Office of Arts and Culture who has been a leader in the fight for federal funding for arts and transit programs and an experienced project manager. Kati Stegall recently joined the City of Phoenix Office of Arts and Culture in September 2017. She relocated from Charlotte, NC where she served as Art-in-Transit Program Administrator for the Charlotte Area Transit System for 8 years. There she managed the integration of public art into transit capital improvement projects including the Blue Line Extension Light Rail Project opening in March 2018, CityLYNX Gold Line Streetcar Project, Albemarle Park and Ride Project, and Beatties Ford Road Redevelopment Corridor Project. In addition, she was responsible for the development and implementation of community education and outreach efforts and maintenance of program resources. She holds an MA in Arts Administration from Winthrop University and a BA in Sculpture and French from Covenant College. | | | · Bloomberg Philanthropies Launches the 2018 Public Art Challenge for U.S. Cities - Bloomberg Philanthropies · Graffiti Artists Awarded $6.7 Million for Destroyed 5Pointz Murals - New York Times · Court Destroys Future Public Art Installations By Holding Building Owner Liable For Destroying This One - Techdirt · Building Capacity for Creative Placemaking - ArtsBlog · The public art works that we didn't know we needed until we got them - Dazed · The best airport art of 2017 - Airport Technology · An AR-15 composed of rose petals anchors a mural on a Five Points restaurant and centers on a painful conversation about gun laws in America - Denver Post · Two CARTA Professors Transformed a Highway Overpass into a Public Art Space - Florida International University · The plot thickens: giant book designs are in for public art project - LexGo · Ann Arbor OKs $2M list of potential public art projects in 7-4 vote - Ann Arbor News · Raleigh earmarks hundreds of thousands for public art - CBS North Carolina · Grassroots project aims to replace Helena's Confederate fountain with inclusive art - Independent Record · As The Port endures project against floods, it benefits from art projects known as Flow - Cambridge Day · Public art in Western Australia fires the imagination alongside urban growth - Hindustan Times · New sculpture park set to transform Hong Kong harbour-front - Lonley Planet |
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