Here’s where you will find a series of brief articles describing how communities across the United States use public art.
Public art is everywhere, and this is the season for getting out and viewing it. This week, we’re taking a quick trip to visit the What a Hoot! owls in upstate New York.
Public art is everywhere, and this is the season for getting out and viewing it. Which is why I’ve started using Wednesdays on Caterpickles to highlight public art projects happening now in various parts of the country. With that, let’s take a quick (virtual) trip to Fayetteville, Arkansas.
Public art is everywhere, and this is the season for getting out and viewing it. Which is why I’ve started using Wednesdays on Caterpickles to highlight public art projects happening now in various parts of the country. This week, let’s take a quick (virtual) trip to Tempe, Arizona.
Public art is everywhere, and this is the season for getting out and viewing it. Which is why I’ve started highlighting public art projects happening now in various parts of the country on Caterpickles. With that, let’s take a quick trip to Alaska.
You may have heard I’ve got a book or two out on viewing public art with your kids. Public art is everywhere, and this is the season for getting out and viewing it. While I was out hunting for public art in Mesquite, Texas with The Eleven-Year-Old earlier this month, it occurred to me that it would be nice to to highlight public art projects happening right now in various parts of the country. With luck, I’ll highlight one in a town near you. With that, let’s take a quick trip to Alabama.
One of the things I love about the public schools here in California is that the buildings are often covered with murals painted by the students. This week for Wordless Wednesday, I’m highlighting portions of the Endangered Species Mural at Juana Briones Elementary School. The mural was painted by the school’s fifth grade class of 1994. (Check the last picture for the list of artists.)
Once you start looking for it, public art really is everywhere. My husband passed this statue of Edgar Allan Poe while strolling down Boylston Street in Boston, Massachusetts last week.
Portion of the mural painted on the Printers Inc building on Birch Street in downtown Palo Alto, CA. The mural dates from the 1980s.
While traveling through San Francisco International Airport last December, The Ten-Year-Old and I stumbled across a giant shoe sculpture by Yayoi Kusama called High Heels for Going to Heaven.
