Charlotte, NC, Artist Thomas Thoune worked with students and community members at Gates County High School to create a mosaic project as part of the School/Public Art Collaboration projects of the North Carolina Arts Council.
Here, Thoune, Gates County students and teachers, and Public Art and Community Design Director Brendan Greaves discuss the project.
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The Branch Library Improvement Program commissions Bay Area artists to collaborate with neighborhood communities to create site-specific works in renovated branch libraries. In this clip, sculptors Gina Telocci and Eric Powell are interviewed about their unique works. There was a lot of community support for the whole project, Telocci says of her experience working in Potrero Hill.
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Change Your Perspective!
Art isn’t only found in museums, it is all around us. Is that a strange thing for us, a museum, to say out loud? Maybe, but it’s still true. And so–having a mission primarily focused on providing access to art–the Contemporary Arts Center staff decided it was time to take things into our own hands and spread that message in our community. In order to encourage people to notice their surroundings in a different way, we set out to cause a tiny change in their daily routine. For this, the first installment of The CAC Experiment, we surprised our neighbors waiting at the bus station with a free ride. Where will we do it next? Stay tuned.
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Roseann Weiss
Director of Community Art Programs & Public Art Initiatives, St. Louis Regional Arts Commission
Director, Community Arts Training (CAT) Institute
Building Community Through the Arts: A Roundtable Discussion
Sponsored by the Community Arts Initiative (CAI)
November 18, 2009
George Warren Brown School of Social Work, Washington University
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In partnership with Citizen Schools, an after-school apprenticeship program, and through a commission from the Houston Arts Alliance, artist Reginald Adams lead a team of 15 students in the design and production of 30 mosaic murals that will be incorporated into the neighborhood multi-service center which is just blocks away from where the students attend school.
The 10 week long apprenticeship program provides the students with hands-on experience working alongside a professional artist in the Museum of Cultural Arts Houston (MOCAH) downtown art studio. The program offers a positive and creative outlet for the youth to express themselves but equally as important is the benefit that is provided to the community through the beautification of the multi-service center, a well visited civic space located in the heart of the community.
The art apprenticeship program began in October 2008 and will be completed January 2009. The art project will be unveiled along with the Grand Opening of the renovated multi-service center in the spring of 2009.
The project is sponsored in part by Citizen Schools and Dal Tile with support from the Houston Arts Alliance through the city of Houston.
For more information contact Reginald Adams, at 713.224.2787 or via email at Reginald@mocah.org
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The Palm Beach County Armory Arts Center located in West Palm Beach, Florida, takes on a new look when young people of all ages and backgrounds came together in an initiative that used art to promote unity as a creative theme. Beginning in 2006, the Institute documented a diverse group of young people who collaborated and gained experience in realizing, creating and contributing to the future of art design in our community. This was accomplished by joining together to establish a permanent monument that memorializes their effort in enhancing public spaces. The initiative was made possible with grants from the Community Foundation of Palm Beach and Martin Counties, Publix and New York music mogul, Russell Simmon’s Rush Foundation.
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