VRA 2013, Visual Resourcefulness and the Public Art Challenge, Lessick
Presented by Helen Lessick at the Annual Conference of the Visual Resources Association, April 3rd - April 6th, 2013, in Providence, Rhode Island. Session #2: Visual Resourcefulness and the Public Art Challenge ORGANIZER/MODERATOR: Helen Lessick, Web Resources for Art in Public PRESENTERS: Jack Becker, founder of Forecast Public Art and Public Art Review Rachel Cain, Public Art Archive, WESTAF (Western States Arts Federation) Elizabeth Keithline, Project Grants/Public Art Management, Rhode Island State Council on the Arts Abby Suckle, CultureNOW Visual resources are key to collections within and outside of the museum and academic worlds. Public art, art in public places, civic art and design, and artist-initiated projects all contribute to a growing national collection. This session will present the diverse approaches to organizing and presenting public art collections online and discuss the challenges of working with municipal and for-profit clients in the field based on policy, innovation, collaboration and context. This session will present challenges and opportunities for VRA members to engage the public art field locally and nationally, and build networks for catalogers and public art collection professionals across the nation. Wednesday April 3, 2013 1:35pm - 2:55pm
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VRA 2013, Visual Resourcefulness and the Public Art Challenge, Lessick
- 1. Visual Resourcefulness and the Public Art Challenge Helen Lessick, Moderator VRA 31 Providence Rhode Island April 3, 2013
- 2. Digital Public Art Collections Hidden in Plain Sight
- 3. Who Makes Art in Public? • Cities, counties, states, federal government • Regional agencies, airports, transit authorities • Museums, non-profit programs, for-profit businesses, academic classes and groups • Artists funded by grants, sales, crowd-sourced or self-funded
- 4. Local pearls, national necklace
- 5. WRAP Web Resources for Art in Public wresources4publicart@gmail.com
- 6. Why WRAP? Community Public artists work across diverse disciplines Public art has history Public art is a local issue and a national discussion
- 7. Why WRAP? Visibility Public Art professionals require current, accurate information Public Art works are siloed Audiences expect on-site information
- 8. Why WRAP? Accuracy Public Art historians cite web sites Art critics and bloggers use web resources Public Art administration is taught with on-line resources and references
- 9. Why WRAP? Advocacy Public Art is challenging Public art is challenged by others Advocates need access to success stories and lessons learned
- 10. WRAP LA: Pilot project 75 Los Angeles basin works funded by artists, non- profits, grants and a church, without a percent for art program Simon Riordan, paid cataloger UCSD Art Library internal review Patricia Walsh, external review Descriptive Catalog Discussions • Urban Displacement • Participatory Art • Food fight vs banquet • Material exchange
- 11. LA murals: Clockwise from top: Cache, Bicycling chicken murals Leo Limon, LA River Catz Self Help Graphics, non-profit entry
- 12. Armory Center for the Arts Pasadena Temporary Banner Projects One Colorado + Armory NW Left: Daniel Buren, A Colored Square in the Sky Right: Lorraine Cleary-Dale with students installing Watz Ur Sygn?
- 13. LA Temporary events, with/out permission Clockwise: Elysian Park Museum of Art, Tumbleweed Snowmen (at entry) Fallen Fruit (at Machine Project) Heidi Duckler, C’opera (at Los Angeles Police Academy)
- 14. Land overlays: clockwise: Michael Heizer, Suspended Mass , Bruce Nauman, untitled Joshua Callaghan: Almost Invisible Boxes, Helen Lessick, Soil Sample: Los Angeles
- 15. Clockwise from top: Arroyo Arts Collective: For the Birds Performing Public Space: Octupy LA JR: Makers of the City
- 16. Panelists Elizabeth Keithline: Rhode Island State Council on the Arts, Public Art/Grants Program Rachel Cain: Western States Art Federation, Public Art Archive Jack Becker: Forecast Public Art + Public Art Review Abby Suckle: culturenow.org
- 17. Love Match VRA + Local art Engage your local public artist and collections. We are always looking to partner.
Notas del editor
- Helen Lessick www.lessick.netWeb Resources for Art in Public (WRAP)
- Public Art Programs in the United States – courtesy Porter Arneill, City of St. Louis, Missouri Public Art Program, 2010.
- Art making purpose: projects, commissions, artist initiated projects, businesses, outdoor exhibitions and community art efforts.
- Contemporary art in public is made locally; these pearls create a public art necklace.
- WRAP is a grassroots effort, started in 2010 when Jack Becker, Forecast Public Art and LieselFenner, Americans for the Arts Public Art Network convened a meeting of interested parties in Baltimore, MD. A report was issued outlining the field’s efforts, challenges, concerns and purposes of putting works of public art on line.
- Elizabeth Keithline will present an overview of the RISC collection and briefly discuss how municipal government commissions and collects public art. Rachel Cain will present WESTAF’s effort to assemble a public art archive.Jack Becker will present his efforts to create an archive for 30 years of magazine publishing of reviews, critiques, essays and artists pages in Public Art Review, and the efforts to make Forecast public art services accessible to local communities and international partners.Abby Suckle will present the grassroots efforts of culturenow.org, and the national program she is putting together for public art, architecture, and historical sites.
- All images credit Helen Lessick except:Slide 2: courtesy Porter ArneillSlide 10: credit Performing Public SpaceSlide 13: credit Heidi Duckler Dance Theatre