Offered online, the Public Art and Communities Symposium will feature national and local speakers who have been engaged in creative placemaking projects that support public health needs within communities across the country, and whose work demonstrates the value of cross-sector collaborations between arts and culture, public health, and community development.
The Office of Public Art is hosting a portfolio review session to give artists the chance to receive feedback on their work from national and local artists, curators, and arts administrators. Artists can reserve 20-minute time slots with a reviewer of their choice over Zoom.
Office of Public Art Director Sallyann Kluz, and City of Pittsburgh Public Art Manager Sarah Minnaert will take participants through the world of permits and permissions for public art projects on both public and private properties in Pittsburgh and adjacent communities.
Che Anderson will speak to the power of bringing public art to Worcester, MA, and how the program shifts its focus every year to address economic, cultural, and societal shifts.
There are more and more opportunities for artists to create work in public space, from requests for qualifications, to requests for proposals, to direct commissions. But, what is the difference between each type of opportunity, and how does an artist new to public art find them?
Register for all three sessions of the Winter Intensive: Demystifying the Public Art Application Process series.
When applying for an artist opportunity, an artist has only one chance to make a powerful first impression with their work samples. In this session, artist and OPA project Manager, Derek Reese will help to provide insight into the application review process to demystify the work sample submission portion of artist calls.
In this session, Jessica Gaynelle Moss and Alberto Aguilar will frame writing for applications as something that is a part of your practice and how written elements can be used as a preview to your artistic style.
Lena Chen and Aino El Solh are members of the Berlin-based artist collective, Maternal Fantasies. Their Instagram Live discussion will focus on the topics of care, healing, and mothering.
OPA Live! is an Instagram Live takeover series. This session, with Ann Tarantino and Jennie Lamensdorf, will focus on the topics of People, Place, and Space.
OPA Live! is an Instagram Live takeover series. This session, with Sculpture Support System and Jim Walker of Big Car Collaborative, will focus on the topic of Collaboration.
Join the Office of Public Art (OPA) for a conversation with three artists making work about Pittsburgh’s environmental health crises.
