The Process Behind Public Art by Miranda Ryan https://padlet.com/cheesehead468/b0inn4kx22ai Art Selection Committies en-us 2016-12-15 04:22:58 UTC 2016-12-15 08:02:52 UTC hello@padlet.com https://padlet-assets.s3.amazonaws.com/icons/Condos.png Introduction: The Process Behind Public Art cheesehead468 https://padlet.com/cheesehead468/b0inn4kx22ai/wish/143764548
  • When you see a work of art at a school or a park or a public building, you might appreciate its forms or enjoy its relationship to the environment it is placed in. As both artists and part of the public who view and enjoy public art, we are exploring the process of how it is made — who decides to put it in a place, who dreams it up, what are the steps in constructing it, how it is installed.
    • ]]>     2016-12-15 04:32:58 UTC https://padlet.com/cheesehead468/b0inn4kx22ai/wish/143764548     Part 1: Art Selection Committees cheesehead468 https://padlet.com/cheesehead468/b0inn4kx22ai/wish/143764845 You will be part of an art selection committee (teacher assigns). The broad idea or theme for the art is focused on education since it will be installed in a school environment! Create a list of your ideas as you work through your responsibilities. A design team will be developing a proposal for art based on your committee’s recommendations. 

    ]]>     2016-12-15 04:37:48 UTC https://padlet.com/cheesehead468/b0inn4kx22ai/wish/143764845     Art selection committee responsibilities: (take notes!) cheesehead468 https://padlet.com/cheesehead468/b0inn4kx22ai/wish/143765376 Discuss the role of public art in society
    • Is public art important? Why or why not?
    • Imagine public places without art — how does that change things?
    • What can public art accomplish? What can it give us?
    Identify target audiences
    • Who ideally would be seeing the art: students, administrators, community members, parents?
    • How do you imagine people interacting with the art?
    • Would the art spark curiosity or conversation, soothe, entertain, delight, or possibly tell a story?
    Identify a site on the school campus for the art
    • Think about recommendations you have developed for the artwork: 
    • What it might be like and who you imagine will see it and interact with it. 
    • Identify a site for the art at your school campus with your criteria in mind.
    ]]>     2016-12-15 04:50:32 UTC https://padlet.com/cheesehead468/b0inn4kx22ai/wish/143765376     Part II: Artist Design Teams: Creating a Proposal cheesehead468 https://padlet.com/cheesehead468/b0inn4kx22ai/wish/143766293 Rotate selection committee notes.
    ~Your Committee has now become an Artist Design Team~
    Brainstorm design proposal ideas
    • Think about the recommendations from committee that you have been assigned.
    • Visit the site on your school campus the committee has identified. 
    • Sketch, take photographs, talk, write, think.
    • Measure and record designated public art site information: dimensions, surfaces, lighting. Also consider the site’s existent environmental features — such as trees, electrical components, etc.
    Create a design for a site-specific work of art
    • Decide what the artwork will be in terms of form, materials, and how it communicates the idea of “education,” as broadly stated in committee recommendations. 
    • Create 3 renderings of the artwork from 3 different views (consider scale in terms of site information)
    Write about how the art would be fabricated
    • Imagine how this art would be built and who would build it. What sort of technical support would be required? Would you need mechanics, welders, carpenters, crane operators etc. to fabricate and install the work?
    Write a description of art concept, imagery, and materials
    • Describe how the art reflects the theme of “education,” what it will look like, and what it will be made out of.

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