Public Art • Placemaking • City Design
It was my great good fortune to have been mentored in my urban design career by Allan Jacobs, who passed away earlier this month. Jake was my professor and advisor at U.C. Berkeley, and I was fortunate to collaborate with … Continued
Proud to announce a major milestone in the project I am working on with Philadelphia Holocaust Remembrance Foundation and Mural Arts Philadelphia. Many thanks to our team — Eszter, Sophie, Lindsey and Jane — and the advisory group who helped … Continued
The citywide printmaking project I am leading for Mural Arts Philadelphia took a big leap last weekend with our first public pop-up workshop at Baltimore Avenue Dollar Stroll street festival. The project, Printmaking by the People, is marking the 250 … Continued
I am just back from a whirlwind trip to Rochester, N.Y., where I am part of a team working on anarts and culture plan for the city and the surrounding county. My mission this week was to visitinner ring suburbs … Continued
Mural Arts has launched its flagship project to mark the nation’s semi-quincentennial, Printmaking by thePeople. I’m proud to have conceived and guided this project in collaboration with co-project managerLindsey Rosenberg. Printmaking by the People – organized as a reflection on … Continued
The first public artworks created under the Butler Trail’s Arts and Culture Plan are now on view!Through a collaboration between the Trail Conservancy and the City of Austin’s Art in PublicPlaces Program, eight artists were commissioned to create temporary artworks … Continued
Austin’s City Council approved a ground-breaking arts and culture plan for the Ann and Roy Butler Hike-Bike Trail, a ten-mile loop around Lady Bird Lake in the center of the city. Bressi led a team of planners and artists who … Continued
It’s right there in the first sentence of the Declaration of Independence: “the pursuit of happiness” is an inalienable human right, one that our nation is conceived to secure for its people. Unfortunately, we have been reminded over and over … Continued
Dunwoody is the latest city in the Atlanta region to ramp up a public art program, and they’ve turned to our team for help. On this project, I’m collaborating with artist Graham Coriel-Allen and project assistant Maya Curtis. You can … Continued
The City of Cuyahoga Falls approved its first-ever public art master plan on December 23. The plan, which Bressi wrote in collaboration with a community-based Advisory Committee, focuses on three themes for projects that are unique to Cuyahoga Falls: Set … Continued