3/4/23 - Unidentified FIgures Artist Talk w/ Lesia Khomenko
Unidentified Figures Artist Talk with Lesia Khomenko. This program is in accompaniment to SJZ Winter Fest: Counterpoint with Ukraine - a spectacular and timely edition of the San Jose Jazz Winter Fest, co-curated with the Am I Jazz? Festival of Kyiv, Ukraine.
Envisioning the Future of Women's Recognition
Calling On Community Members To Help Shape Public Art To Recognize Women’s Contributions To Santa Clara County
ABC7 News: Art installations celebrate accomplishments of Santa Clara County women
ABC7 News - Art installations celebrate accomplishments of Santa Clara County women
Mercury News - Womanhood Project celebrates female leaders in Santa Clara County
Womanhood Project celebrates female leaders in Santa Clara County
Artists Honoring Women ft. Na Omi Judy Shintani
What does recognition in public art look like as we reconsider issues of representation and cultural equity?
Meet the 2020 Emerging City Champions
Twenty young civic innovators have been selected as the next group of 8 80 Cities’ Emerging City Champions to implement projects that show great promise for strengthening their cities.
The Avenue of the Arts
How can we envision the future of public art in the California Avenue District in Palo Alto, CA?
The Name Dictionary
Social practice artist Quynh-Mai Nguyen is on a mission to disempower and deconstruct micro-aggressions through visual commentary.
The Question we should be asking is, “Does it work?”
In an era dominated by Facebook, blogs, Twitter, and Yelp!, where we are constantly invited to hit the "like" button and share our reviews, it’s tempting to wade into evaluating public art without asking the question “why?” After all, anyone can should have a valid opinion of anything that lives in the public realm, right?
New Mural Celebrates Diverse Heroes in Nursing
The UC San Francisco School of Nursing has unveiled a new mural that commemorates a diverse set of nurse heroes whose work and advocacy revolutionized health care and paved the way for diversity and inclusion in nursing.
Seven Reasons To Become A Public Art Leader
Usually when people ask me what I do and I say “public art planner” a lot of confusing questions follow. Many lay people identify murals and public sculpture as public art; others consider public art to be concerts in the park, painted utility boxes and Cows on Parade ™
It’s All About Our Base
Barbara Goldstein’s takeaways from the American for the Arts Annual Convention