Artist Ginger Brooks Takahashi will share her process and tips for preparing materials to work with a fabricator. Recently, Brooks Takahashi completed the Nine Mile Run Viewfinder, a series of portals for seeing, hearing, and smelling the underground waterways.
For this session, Joseph Claunch will be presenting on Ho’n A:wan Community Park, in conversation with lead artist Daryl Shack, and the important role that community artists and culture-bearers played in the design of the park.
This session will be an interactive, dynamic process to define equity within the context of cultural work, challenges in regard to achieving it, and tools needed for building it.
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?
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.
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.
