Know your audience

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For artists who work in a studio/gallery based practice there isn’t much concern regarding who is looking at the work. You create your paintings/sculptures/new media/whatever and then find the audience.

Not so with public art. It is important that you consider when you are developing the project –who is [...]

Planning. The best plan of all.

Colleen Keegan of the Creative Capital Professional Development Program has a great line for encouraging artists:

Bigger Dreams. Smaller Steps.

This couldn’t be more true for someone looking to take on a public art project. Doing anything in the public realm,takes a lot of planning (if it is going to be done well and [...]

what does this d.i.y. mean?

Techinically d.i.y. stands for Do It Yourself,but thats not an accurate term.

I thought it would be helpful to further define what I am focused on regarding public art (in terms of what I am addressing on this site). This is well visualized by the work of the artists listed on the right side. [...]