Public Art • Placemaking • City Design
McKinney’s Public Art Master plan was approved by unanimous vote on Tuesday evening. The plan will bring murals to the alleyways in Downtown McKinney and bring sculptures throughout McKinney. Todd Bressi assisted lead consultant Via Partnership in developing the plan. … Continued
Thoughtbarn installed its project, Escaped Infrastructure, last week. I managed the project through the artist selection phase for the Mural Arts Program and the local sponsor, the Manayunk Development Corporation. UPDATES: Read a review of the project on the Philebrity … Continued
Nearly two years after Jeroen Koolhass and Dre Urhahn first visited Philadelphia, their vision for the transformation of Germantown Avenue is nearly complete. Follow the press reports below. WHYY “Establishing a There on Germantown Avenue with Big Bold Colors”
Arlington County Economic Development, the home agency for the Arlington, Va., public art program, has just published an article I authored, Four Lenses on the Value of Public Art. From the introduction: “This paper sets a context for Arlington’s public … Continued
I awoke this morning to the news that a great Philadelphia sculptor, colleague and neighbor of mine, Bob Phillips, has passed away as a result of an accident in his metalworking shop in North Philadelphia, You can learn more about … Continued
The Places journal website is highlighting a photographic portfolio and essay on the High Line from winter 2011. Joel Sternfeld took the photos, and I wrote the essay with Hugh Hardy. We were the first to publish Joel’s photographs and … Continued
How Philly Moves, the Philadelphia Mural Arts’ Program’s bravura gateway project on the facade of the Philadelphia International Airport garage, has won national recognition as a project listed in the Public Art Network’s Year in Review. The Year in Review … Continued
Two of my projects have made the news – Philly Painting, a Mural Arts project that I helped with in the early stages, and the McKinney Public Art Master Plan, a project that I am assisting Via Partnership with. Philly … Continued
We’ve been doing research into the way that other researchers document the value of public art, and discovered a report published last year by the American Planning Association on that topic. The report calls out Arlington County’s public art program … Continued
Last night I joined a faculty retreat at Pratt Institute’s Program for Planning and Sustainable Development. The question at hand: How can the school strengthen its teaching about everything to do with the public realm? Should the school offer a … Continued