Hello Julia and PAN colleagues,

My living landscape poem, Le Paysage Vivant, was a temporary public art project realized with a poem shaved onto one side of one cow in a herd of animals at the Technical Agricultural College in Valentin, France.  As the animals grazed the fields, viewers in cars, on bikes or walking could see the poem, or have it obscured.  Created in 1993, it grew out over three months. http://helenlessick.net/helen-lessick-word-works.html

For the City of Inglewood's Growing Artists Projects, J. Malaika Beckford created a public art poetry project consisting of all ages poetry workshops leading to a hard cover, editioned book of poetry about Inglewood by residents. It was added to the Library collection, distributed to Inglewood public school libraries, and to Los Angeles County libraries. Ms. Beckford also created an edition of 100 vinyl albums with her original spoken word poetry and music performances. Inglewoodpublicart.org

For the City of INglewood's new Senior Center, artist Susan Narduli created a two story wall treatment comprised of a perforated metal screen holding a map of the greater Inglewood area, encompassing Santa Monica, downtown LA and Torrance. The wall also held photos and shadow boxes of Inglewood history, and poetry excerpts from Ms. Beckford and from Gordon Norris, a California Poet Laureate buried in the Inglewood's non-profit cemetery. This just opened so is not yet on the web site, but I shared a slide of this project at Five in Five.

Contact me directly if you want more information.

Helen

Helen Lessick
HelenLessick.net



On 13 July 2018 at 07:12, Julia Muney Moore <jmoore@indyarts.org> wrote:
Super-cool, Mary:  thank you!

Julia Muney Moore
Director of Public Art
Arts Council of Indianapolis

(317) 631-3301 x 240
(317) 332-8382 mobile


On Thu, Jul 12, 2018 at 9:17 PM, Mary Lucking <mary@marylucking.com> wrote:
Hi Julia

(Thanks for the shout-out, Kevin!)

I also did a temporary project a while ago imagining in James Joyce writing Finnegans Wake on coasters in a local Irish-themed pub:

https://asuartmuseum.wordpress.com/2010/11/10/mary-lucking-open-for-business/

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Mary Lucking
www.marylucking.com


For a potential future project, I'm looking for examples of outdoor public art that was inspired by a city or state's literary heritage.  Example: we've already done two large and v. popular portrait murals of internationally prominent authors associated with Indianapolis, Kurt Vonnegut Jr. and Mari Evans. I'm not looking for more portrait-type work, though, because we have that covered! We also have plenty of examples of projects that solicit new poetry or literary compositions from contemporary authors to place in public (we have a lovely set of poetry bus shelters to talk about that format, plus, of course, sidewalk poetry), and projects that make books available free to the public (we have a Free Library type public art project called The Public Collection). 
I'm looking for highly innovative temporary work, permanent work, performative work, sound pieces, engagement/social practice initiatives--any format that highlights or is inspired by specific books and authors local to a place, or encourages people to get more involved in public as listeners, readers, and writers by drawing specifically on local literary history. I've looked on the Year in Review extensively and a bit on Public Art Archive; I'm particularly soliciting information on projects that may not have made it there (or, in the case of the PAA, not easily found). Budgets associated with the projects would be very helpful.
Thanks in advance!
-- 
Julia Muney Moore
Director of Public Art
Arts Council of Indianapolis
924 N. Pennsylvania St.
Indianapolis, IN  46204
(317) 631-3301 x240
(317) 332-8382 mobile
jmoore@indyarts.org
http://www.IndyArts.org
Re: Public art inspired by literary heritage? by Jim Glenn (12 Jul 2018 15:38 UTC)
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