Public Art - Blog Posts
Hamish Fulton, Seven Paces, 2003, cast iron installation. Photograph by Hans Weingartz, CC BY-SA 2.0 DE https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.0/de/deed.en, via Wikimedia Commons
I wrote about how we can walk with a purpose by expressing habits of mind that we learn through art. Read "How to walk like an Artist" on my blog, Artfully Learning: https://theartsandeducation.wordpress.com/2023/01/19/how-to-walk-like-an-artist/
Vivien Collens, Froebel’s Gifts: Blue Circuit, 2018. Courtesy of the artist.
Vivien’s "broken cube" sculptural motif is an ode to Fröbel's Gifts. The cube is a module that enables Collens to explore her aesthetic ideas in an active, hands-on manner that combines guided and spontaneous artistic processes. "Broken cube" is a key component of Collens’ "Froebels Gifts" sculpture series (2017-ongoing). The title of the collective body of work references processes and products associated with Fröbel and his active learning methodologies.
On the Artfully Learning Audio Series, Vivien and I discuss her work within the context of education, specifically the influence of Friedrich Fröbel, a eighteenth century educational reformer who is notable for developing the first modern kindergartens. Listen here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=19-uDm961e8&t=1062s
Hugh Hayden, Brier Patch, 2022. Installed at Madison Square Park in New York City. Photograph by Yasunori Matsui, courtesy of Madison Square Park Conservancy.
Read about Hugh Hayden's thorny and artful critique of inequity within the public education system in NYC (and by extension, the U.S.A at large) in the post "Into the weeds of public education" on Artfully Learning: https://theartsandeducation.wordpress.com/2022/05/07/into-the-weeds-of-public-education/
Alisha B. Wormsley, There Are Black People in the Future, 2017.
Pittsburgh, Alisha B. Wormsley
Denver International Airport Public Art installation at the Jeppesen Terminal
Project Monsoon Clever colorful street art that only appears when it rains
After the Superhydrophobic Street Art, which uses a superhydrophobic coating to create designs which appear only in the rain, here is the Project Monsoon, which uses the same concept, this time with hydrochromic painting, which reveals its color only when wet. This amazing and clever project was designed by a Korean team of designers, in collaboration with Pantone, to provide color to the streets of Seoul during the rainy season, while paying tribute to the Korean culture. A brilliant idea! Source: ufunk