Sentences with phrase «public art initiative for»

Currently, Allison serves on the selection committee for a new public art initiative for the King Street Park at the Waterfront in Old Town, Alexandria.

Not exact matches

The Chartered Institute of Building brings art to public spaces by offering thought - provoking photography for construction sites Forget corporate logos and advertising - soon the public will be treated to dramatic, eye - catching art galleries on construction sites around the country, thanks to a new initiative from the Chartered Institute of Building.

The many initiatives discussed for changing public education — accountability, standards, standardized testing, homework, arts in the curriculum, and so on — comprise one side of that debate.

In 2014, parents of students at Horace Mann Elementary School in Northwest Washington, D.C., spent over $ 470,000 of their own money to support the school's programs.1 With just under 290 students enrolled for the 2013 - 14 school year, this means that, in addition to public funding, Horace Mann spent about an extra $ 1,600 for each student.2 Those dollars — equivalent to 9 percent of the District of Columbia's average per - pupil spending3 — paid for new art and music teachers and classroom aides to allow for small group instruction.4 During the same school year, the parent - teacher association, or PTA, raised another $ 100,000 in parent donations and collected over $ 200,000 in membership dues, which it used for similar initiatives in future years.5 Not surprisingly, Horace Mann is one of the most affluent schools in the city, with only 6 percent of students coming from low - income families.6

National Coalition for Core Arts Standards Media Arts Committee Leadership Richard W. Burrows, National Coalition for Core Arts Standards Media Arts Committee Co-Chair, Newark (New Jersey) Public Schools, Special Assistant / Arts Dr. Pam Paulson, National Coalition for Core Arts Standards Media Arts Committee Co-chair, Perpich Center for Arts Education Minnesota Dr. Amy Jensen, Department Chair, Theatre and Media Arts Department, Brigham Young University Marcia McCaffrey, President, State Education Agency Directors of Arts Education, New Hampshire Department of Education Dr. Nancy Rubino, Senior Director, Office of Academic Initiatives, The College Board Ms. Cory Wilkerson, State Education Agency Directors of Arts Education, Project Manager

The Texas Education Agency — in conjunction with the TLI Leadership Team, which includes 20 regional education service centers, the Institute for Public School Initiatives at The University of Texas at Austin, The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston, and the Vaughn Gross Center for Reading and Language Arts at The University of Texas at Austin — collaborate with Literacy Lines to meet the goals of the TLI grant.

The addition is the latest installment for DTSM, Inc. and the City of Santa Monica Cultural Affair's public art initiative ROAM Santa Monica, created to activate the public realm and expand cultural offerings in Downtown Santa Monica.

«Real Fake» is one of the five new artworks installed along the Riverwalk as part of the city's Year of Public Art — a $ 1.5 million initiative to commission artists to create new works for spaces across Chicago.

These acquisitions were made possible through the support of the W.K. Kellogg Foundation, which is funding a new initiative at the museum, called the Center for Art and Public Exchange.

The collective initiative of «The New Place Project» (the Tribune), is the answer to the growing interest in quality fine art commissions for public spaces -LSB-...]

«We are proud to expand our support of the Tang Teaching Museum, an institution that continues to pioneer new ways of integrating the fine arts with a diversity of disciplines, creating deeply meaningful experiences for the communities it serves — whether through on - campus scholarship or access and education initiatives that serve public schools and build audiences well beyond the region,» said Laurie M. Tisch, President of the Laurie M. Tisch Illumination Fund.

The new work by celebrated artist Antony Gormley, made especially for this project, will be a wonderful legacy — and a way of thanking the art - loving public, who made the whole initiative possible.»

This public program will examine the challenges of archiving and locating materials related to a particular history, the implications of such undertakings for art historical scholarship, and how this initiative can impact and serve a larger community.

Undertaken as a public - private initiative with support from the City of New York, the five - story, 82,000 - square - foot project will provide the custom - built and expanded facilities, enriched visitor experience and strong architectural presence appropriate to a premier center for contemporary artists of African descent, the principal visual art institution in Harlem and a magnet for visitors from around the world.

As a non-collecting museum, SculptureCenter's annual exhibition program includes 1 - 2 commissioning programs by mid-career artists, 10 - 15 projects by emerging artists, and 3 - 6 solo and group exhibitions in addition to an exciting series of special projects by emerging artists through In Practice, an open call program, and Public Process, a public art and education initiative for high school stuPublic Process, a public art and education initiative for high school stupublic art and education initiative for high school students.

The guest panel is organized byTalking to Action for Otis College of Art and Design in coordination with the Graduate Public Practice Program and is part of The Getty Foundation's Pacific Standard Time LA / LA initiative.

Our public programme has encompassed talks, residencies, performances, commissioning new site - specific installations, and supporting cultural initiatives in Ghana and beyond so we are delighted to have an off - site project in Dubai for the first time in advance of our participation at Art Dubai fair.»

The Bauhaus: Art as Life public programme also brings to London a host of workshops, talks, films and performances as well as a major Creative Learning initiative for the Bauhaus exhibition, the Art School Lab, an intensive two - week summer school held at the Barbican and led by leading practitioners from all artistic backgrounds.

Dávila was recently awarded the BALTIC Centre for Contemporary Art's new annual Artists» Award and in October 2017, the Getty Foundation awarded the Los Angeles Nomadic Division a grant for Dávila to create a major public installation as part of the Getty's Pacific Standard Time: LA / LA initiative, the exhibition is ongoing through May 2018.

Launching in January 2014, the $ 100,000 pilot initiative will place 13 college juniors from private and public historically black colleges and universities (HBCUs) in major American art museums for semester - long paid internships, as well as support these students with career and job readiness coaching and professional development training.

Founded in Beirut in 1993, Ashkal Alwan is committed to the production, research, and circulation of contemporary artistic and intellectual practices, through initiatives such as Home Works: A Forum on Cultural Practices (2002), a multidisciplinary platform bringing together artists, writers, thinkers, filmmakers, and choreographers, for a public program of exhibitions, panel discussions, film screenings, and performances, as well as the Home Workspace Program (2011), an annual tuition - free art - study program.

For the past five years, JiaJia served as Associate Director, Digital Marketing at the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum in New York bringing art to a broader public online through award - winning digital initiatives.

Our activities include: public programs; a grant and scholarship program; cultural research trips to Israel for art professionals and collectors; and professional development initiatives.

CITY PROJECT is an initiative for public art and the city, conceived and commissioned annually by NEON to a Greek artist.

Thousands of them perch on rooftops throughout the five boroughs, and now around 100 of the distinctive wooden barrels are being transformed into temporary canvases for a public art initiative.

The press release called it an «unprecedented citywide public art initiative» for the Second City.

In conjunction with the Project Room exhibition, Anderson's work will be featured on over 30 bus shelters around Miami in September 2012 for the Bus Shelter Project, part of Locust Projects» public art initiative Out of the Box, which commissions artists to create new work for public spaces in Miami.

With the help of independent curator Pedro Alonzo, the new initiative is designed to present compelling contemporary art in a public landscape to create inspirational and meditative experiences for visitors at some of its most iconic and historic properties.

She has been the recipient of numerous significant grants including the New York Foundation for the Arts Fellowship (twice), the St. Gaudens Foundation Fellowship, PEW Foundation Philadelphia Exhibition Initiatives, the Howard Foundation Fellowship and a Public Art Fund Grant.

Thirukode is the co-founder of Project For Empty Space, a nonprofit public art initiative that brings contemporary art out of institutional spaces and into vacant lots in cities.

Khan spent the past three years collaborating and curating many projects and public program initiatives for BRIC Arts Media Bklyn's Rotunda Gallery where she was the assistant curator.

At the William Penn Foundation, a leading philanthropy with an endowment greater than $ 2 billion, she was responsible for numerous initiatives addressing social and environmental challenges in America's fifth largest city and for designing programs in education, public space, the arts and the environment.

«Arteko Container» is a project within the framework of Bilbao Art District (BiAD), a public - private initiative whose main objective is to support and promote the visual arts sector in Bilbao, converting the city into a meeting point for the different artistic agents and disciplines, as well as bringing art closer to the publArt District (BiAD), a public - private initiative whose main objective is to support and promote the visual arts sector in Bilbao, converting the city into a meeting point for the different artistic agents and disciplines, as well as bringing art closer to the publart closer to the public.

Today's funding trends such as Creative Place - making, made possible through partnership enterprises among foundation, governmental, and financial - sector support, such as ArtPlace America, are concentrated on giving art and artists opportunities in diverse communities yet also require artists and arts organizations to think through an entrepreneurial frame by integrating their initiatives into their community's economic development and community revitalization strategies and having the potential to attract additional private and public support of the community.3 Is this a worthy challenge of contemporary arts insularity or does it discount subversive and against - the - grain art production, made by and for art communities, including that which is made within and by these same diverse communities that are being targeted by new funding initiatives as in need of help in the form of artistic interventions?

She was one of five international curators chosen for the citywide public art project, 5 x 5, a major initiative sponsored by the DC Commission on the Arts and Humanities in 2012.

In connection with the Åben Skole («Open School») initiative of the School Reform, the City of Copenhagen offers the possibility for the city's public school classes to benefit from free offers of learning at Nikolaj Kunsthal, Copenhagen Contemporary Art Centre.

Established in 1975 and based in New York, ICI works with curators and art spaces in the city and around the world to produce and present exhibitions, public programs, as well as educational initiatives for professionals.

The presentation of A Logo for America in Piccadilly Circus is the third large - scale public screening of the work which included a showing in New York's Times Square in 2014 and, at Mexico City's Auditorio Nacional in 2016, as part of the Guggenheim UBS MAP Global Art initiative.

With this new initiative, Art Basel will support the non-profit sector of the artworld, at a time when public funding for the arts has been dwindling.

A large collaborative initiative that is founded and directed by the New Museum, and involves scores of downtown organizations, including universities, arts institutions, and community groups, the Festival serves as a platform for artists, writers, architects, engineers, designers, urban farmers, planners, and thought leaders to exchange ideas, propose solutions, and invite the public to participate.

She has received numerous grants, including the New York Foundation for the Arts Fellowship, St. Gaudens Foundation Fellowship, PEW Foundation Philadelphia Exhibitions Initiatives, Howard Foundation Fellowship and a Public Art Fund Grant.

The Award is generously supported by the Sfumato Foundation, and is the latest initiative from the Contemporary Art Society; charity that supports contemporary artists by promoting the importance of collecting and commissioning by public and private bodies and individuals nationally within the broader international context for contemporary aArt Society; charity that supports contemporary artists by promoting the importance of collecting and commissioning by public and private bodies and individuals nationally within the broader international context for contemporary artart.

Cooper Union has demonstrated a long history committed to to service to society, and there are a number of existing initiatives that continue to build community from the Saturday art program for high school students, to the Interactive Light Studio, an outreach project where engineering students are working to create a digital display that responds to sound, which will be installed at local public school for deaf and hearing children.

Building upon the City of Chicago and DCASE's longstanding commitment to public art, OVERRIDE provides EXPO CHICAGO a key initiative for the annual exposition to showcase works by leading international artists beyond Navy Pier.

Featuring a combination of exhibition, education, and public programming spaces on a 20,000 square foot campus, Art + Practice transcends the traditional expectations of the «community art space,» as it offers services to foster youth in a collective and practice space, as well as affordable housing initiatives for homeless people, and professional and educational counseling for participanArt + Practice transcends the traditional expectations of the «community art space,» as it offers services to foster youth in a collective and practice space, as well as affordable housing initiatives for homeless people, and professional and educational counseling for participanart space,» as it offers services to foster youth in a collective and practice space, as well as affordable housing initiatives for homeless people, and professional and educational counseling for participants.

The grants draw from the New York - based foundation's Art and Social Justice initiative, established in 2015 to with a mission to use «art as a tool for advocacy and creative change, inclusive community engagement, and the promotion of greater civic participation and public discourse.&raqArt and Social Justice initiative, established in 2015 to with a mission to use «art as a tool for advocacy and creative change, inclusive community engagement, and the promotion of greater civic participation and public discourse.&raqart as a tool for advocacy and creative change, inclusive community engagement, and the promotion of greater civic participation and public discourse.»

An initiative of the Terra Foundation for American Art, Art Design Chicago shares with the world a dynamic convergence of more than 25 exhibitions and hundreds of public programs in 2018.

With a mandate to support creative initiatives, Alserkal Avenue is known for supporting local talent and cultural projects: Quoz Arts Festival, the first free, community arts festival in the UAE, Galleries Night, a biannual feature on Dubai's art calendar; galleries and creative spaces simultaneously open their doors to the public, including live performances by local musicians; and Urban Market, a seasonal, daylong, outdoor festival to bring the community together, celebrating arts, food and creativArts Festival, the first free, community arts festival in the UAE, Galleries Night, a biannual feature on Dubai's art calendar; galleries and creative spaces simultaneously open their doors to the public, including live performances by local musicians; and Urban Market, a seasonal, daylong, outdoor festival to bring the community together, celebrating arts, food and creativarts festival in the UAE, Galleries Night, a biannual feature on Dubai's art calendar; galleries and creative spaces simultaneously open their doors to the public, including live performances by local musicians; and Urban Market, a seasonal, daylong, outdoor festival to bring the community together, celebrating arts, food and creativarts, food and creativity.

Join us for the free opening reception for Urs Fischer: The Public & the Private, the inaugural event for the Museums» new contemporary arts initiative.

Raicovich comes to the museum from her previous role as director of global initiatives for Creative Time, an arts nonprofit known for socially engaged, public work.