"Art & Neighborhood" Symposium

From Peter Brunn, Art on Purpose:

In partnership with the Baltimore Museum of Art, Baltimore Office of Promotion & the Arts, Greater Baltimore Cultural Alliance, Mayor's Office of Neighborhoods, Neighborhood Design Center, and Parks & People Foundation, Art on Purpose is pleased to be a co-presenter of a half-day symposium on the role art can play in improving neighborhood life.

The event will be held at The Baltimore Museum of Art, 10 Art Museum Drive, and is free, though pre-registration is required. To do so, please visit this link: REGISTER HERE

"Art & Neighborhood" will be held Saturday, January 27, from 8am to Noon. It will feature a keynote address by Mindy Thompson Fullilove, author of Root Shock and nationally renowned advocate of those displaced by urban renewal, followed with a response by Liz Lerman, MacArthur "genius grant" winner and Founding Director of Liz Lerman Dance Exchange. The symposium will also include three "case study" presentations on how art can have a positive impact in neighborhoods: Kumani Gantt, Director of Village of Arts & Humanities; Jay Wolf Schlossberg-Cohen, an artist working in Baltimore's Midtown Edmondson neighborhood; and Art on Purpose's own Real City, Dream City project.

Complementary breakfast and lunch will be included, and symposium attendees will have the opportunity to network among themselves -- neighborhood to neighborhood, artist to neighborhood, artist to artist.

Agenda.

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In an earlier comment, Will opined that public art should be produced by professionals. HIs extended comment must have helped direct me to a book I found today in the Maryland Book Exchange, entitled Did Someone Say Participate. The chapter "The Museum of the Future," by Peter Weibel discusses "the crisis of competence" when "'everyone is an artist' and 'everything is art'"

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