Category: Featured Blog Content

6 Can’t-Miss Public Art Stops of the Southwest

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Lives that Bind: Restorative Justice Installation on Virtual View

“An exciting new art exhibit curated by former California African American Museum curator jill moniz is now installed on the first floor of Santa Monica’s new City Hall East. The exhibit spans works from major names such as Kerry James Marshall, Alfredo Ramos-Martinez, and Alison Saar, and other local emerging and established BIPOC (Black, Indigenous, […]

Celebrating Our 10-year Anniversary with a Look to the Future

We are thrilled to kick off this new decade by expressing our appreciation to all of the public artists, organizations, and practitioners who have helped us build (and who continue to guide) the Public Art Archive™ (PAA) into the resource it has become today. In the past 10 years, PAA has grown from a collection of ideas attempting […]

Artist Interview with Ben Butler

Ben Butler in studio

“Making art for public spaces means presenting ideas to a broad and often unknown audience. Acknowledging that your worldview is in large part shaped by your surroundings seems important. I think public art requires empathy as much as it requires vision. You need to balance the integrity of the work with a responsiveness to its […]

‘Honest Babe.’ People Are Having a Hard Time Keeping It Together Thanks to This Chiseled Abraham Lincoln Statue

Young Lincoln by James Lee Hansen. 1941. US General Services Administration Collection. Photo courtesy Zack Stentz as it appears in Time Magazine.

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Public Art Archive’s Collection Management System Launch!

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This Artist Turns Anxiety And Fear Into Public Art

[vc_row type=”in_container” full_screen_row_position=”middle” bg_color=”#ffffff” scene_position=”center” text_color=”dark” text_align=”left” overlay_strength=”0.3″ shape_divider_position=”bottom” shape_type=””][vc_column column_padding=”no-extra-padding” column_padding_position=”all” background_color_opacity=”1″ background_hover_color_opacity=”1″ column_shadow=”none” column_border_radius=”none” width=”1/2″ tablet_text_alignment=”default” phone_text_alignment=”default” column_border_width=”none” column_border_style=”solid”][vc_column_text] This Artist Turns Anxiety And Fear Into Public Art Great article and interview with Candy Chang, keynote speaker for WESTAF’s 2017 cultural policy symposium, The Future History of Public Art. Candy’s work speaks to […]

New Tools and Resources for the Public Art Field

[vc_row type=”in_container” full_screen_row_position=”middle” scene_position=”center” text_color=”dark” text_align=”left” overlay_strength=”0.3″ shape_divider_position=”bottom” shape_type=””][vc_column column_padding=”no-extra-padding” column_padding_position=”all” background_color_opacity=”1″ background_hover_color_opacity=”1″ column_shadow=”none” column_border_radius=”none” width=”1/2″ tablet_text_alignment=”default” phone_text_alignment=”default” column_border_width=”none” column_border_style=”solid”][vc_column_text] New Tools and Resources for the Public Art Field Check in with the Public Art Archive to learn more about our recent symposium, The Future History of Public Art. Proceedings will be made available to […]