Through the Lens of The Five-Year-Old: The Dedham Public Art Project
The Five-Year-Old has recently been promoted to Caterpickles Official Junior Photojournalist. For her first assignment, The Five-Year-Old has elected to develop a 15-post Photo Documentary of the Dedham Shines Public Art Project going on this summer in nearby Dedham, Massachusetts. This week, she visited Spiral Bunny by Lisa Houck.
Read articlePalo Alto Public Art Project: Lost in My Abstract Garden on California Avenue
Palo Alto has installed eight new temporary murals designed to give residents struggling with the pandemic a bit of an emotional boost this spring. Last week, I visited the murals along California Avenue, and found myself spending a great deal of time with Carrie Lederer’s mural, Lost in My Abstract Garden.
Read articleThe Palo Alto Public Art Project is helping us remember how to be in public spaces again
With Santa Clara County slowly resuming economic and social activities, looking at some freshly installed public art is a great opportunity to get my entire family used to roaming freely around the world again.
Read article50 States of Public Art: The Josephine Sculpture Garden in Frankfort, Kentucky
While watching the election returns out of Kentucky this past week, I found myself wondering what the public art looked like over there. Turns out, Frankfort, Kentucky boasts one of the world’s most interesting and kid-friendly open-air sculpture gardens.
Read article50 States of Public Art: CityArt Walking Sculpture Tour in Mankato, Minnesota
It’s summertime, and therefore, peak public art touring season in the United States. In the current installment of our ongoing series, The 50 States of Public Art, we visit Mankato, Minnesota, which has launched its ninth annual CityArt Walking Sculpture Tour.
Read article50 States of Public Art: The Work Now program in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
After heading south for the winter, we here at Caterpickles Central are cautiously migrating back north for our monthly public art fix. For the first spring installment of our ongoing series, The 50 States of Public Art, we visit Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, where an unconventional public art program is being used to give jobs to homeless residents looking for work.
Read article50 States of Public Art: Gators on the Geaux in Lake Charles, Louisiana
Public art is everywhere, and in some parts of the country you can even still go out and enjoy it. (Sorry, snow-packed Northerners, the public art portion of this blog is headed south for the winter.) This week on Caterpickles, we meet an eleven-year-old boy in Lake Charles, Louisiana who is nearly as excited about his town’s gators as my daughter was about the Dedham Massachusetts bunnies.
Read article50 States of Public Art: The Street Murals of St. Petersburg, Florida
Public art is everywhere, and in some parts of the country you can even still go out and enjoy it. This week on Caterpickles, we’re treating ourselves to a sneak peek at the street mural scene in St. Petersburg, Florida.
Read article50 States of Public Art: The Tree Spirits of St. Simons Island, Georgia
Located on the southeast Georgia coast between Savannah and Jacksonville, St. Simons Island is a small seaside resort town with year-round residents, hard-packed sandy beaches, miles of bike trails, a rich and complicated history with deep ties to the U.S. Navy, and a unique crop of public art.
Read article50 States of Public Art: San Francisco buses power Ned Kahn’s Bus Jet Fountain
It’s election season and that means that I’ve been hearing a lot of press about all the things that are going wrong in Northern California. So it was a pleasant change to see this story in the New York Times yesterday about artist Ned Kahn’s plan to use San Francisco’s public transit system to create an interactive piece of public art.
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