2017 Seminar Series — Cultural Ecologies

Public Art and Ethics Seminar Seminar Series 2017
IUPUI Arts and Humanities Institute
Co-Organized by Jason M. Kelly, Fiona McDonald, Pam Napier

Seminar 1: What is Public Art?
9 March 2017, 4-6PM

"Introduction" to The Everyday Practice of Public Art: Art, Space, and Social Inclusion by Cameron Cartiere and Martin Zebracki (pp. 1-10).
"The Public Benefits and Value of Arts & Culture: What Have We Learned and Why Does it Matter? by Holly Sidford, Helicon Collaborative and Nick Rabkin.
"Understanding the value of arts & culture The AHRC Cultural Value Project" by Geoffrey Crossick & Patrycja Kaszynska, http://www.ahrc.ac.uk/documents/publications/cultural-value-project-final-report/

Guest Speakers

Julia Muney Moore, Director of Public Art, Indianapolis Arts Council
Meredith Brickell, MFA, Associate Professor of Art and Art History, DePauw University; Director, House Life Project
Fiona P. McDonald, PhD, Postdoctoral Researcher, IUPUI Arts & Humanities Institute

Seminar 2: Histories of Public Art and the Common Good
26 April 2017, 4-6PM

Beetham, Sarah. “From Spray Cans to Minivans: Contesting the Legacy of Confederate Soldier Monuments in the Era of ‘Black Lives Matter.’” Public Art Dialogue 6, no. 1 (2016): 9–33.
Labode, Modupe. “Unsafe Ideas, Public Art, and E Pluribus Unum: An Interview with Fred Wilson.” Indiana Magazine of History 108, no. 4 (2012): 383–401.
Lacy, Suzanne. “Time in Place: New Genre Public Art a Decade Later.” In The Practice of Public Art, edited by Cameron Cartiere and Shelly Willis, 18–32. New York: Routledge, 2008.
Montgomery, Alesia. “Reappearance of the Public: Placemaking, Minoritization and Resistance in Detroit.” International Journal of Urban and Regional Research 40, no. 4 (2016): 776–99.
Saltz, Jerry. “New York Has Solved the Problem of Public Art. But at What Cost?” Vulture, December 17, 2015. http://www.vulture.com/2015/12/how-new-york-solved-the-problem-of-public-art.html.

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Seminar 3: Public Art, Representation, and Gentrification
15 August 2017, 4-6PM

Lees, Loretta. “Gentrification.” In The Encyclopedia of Housing, edited by Andrew T. Carswell, 2nd ed. SAGE Publications, 2012.
Taylor, Emily. “Are Indy Neighborhoods Gentrifying?” NUVO, December 14, 2016.
Adisa, Imhotep. “Is Gentrification the Problem in Indianapolis?” Kheprw Institute, December 19, 2016.
Nazaryan, Alexander. “The ‘Artwashing’ of America: The Battle for the Soul of Los Angeles Against Gentrification.” Newsweek, May 21, 2017.
Capps, Kriston. “There Are Almost No Sculptures of History-Making Women in America.” CityLab. Accessed July 14, 2017.
Doss, Erika. “Women Warrior Memorials and Issues of Gender in Contemporary American Public Art.” Public Art Dialogue 2, no. 2 (September 1, 2012): 190–214.
Mallach, Alan. “Social and Economic Trends in Indianapolis 2000-2014: An Overview of Neighborhood Level Change.” Center for Community Progress, November 2016.

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Optional Readings

Cameron, Stuart, and Jon Coaffee. “Art, Gentrification and Regeneration – From Artist as Pioneer to Public Arts.” International Journal of Housing Policy 5, no. 1 (2005): 39–58.
“Indianapolis Gentrification Maps and Data.” Accessed June 30, 2017.

Seminar 4: The Urban Landscape as Art Space
28 September 2017, 4-6PM

Anthony Schrag, Cameron Cartiere, Martin Zebracki, Sophie Hope, and Elisa Yon. “A Collective Timeline of Socially Engaged Public Art Practice, 1950-2015.” In The Everyday Practice of Public Art: Art, Space, and Social Inclusion, edited by Cameron Cartiere and Martin Zebracki, 225–41. London: Routledge, 2015.
Enigbokan, Adeola. “Work Ethics: On Fair Labour Practices in a Socially Engaged Art World.” Art & the Public Sphere 4, no. 1–2 (December 1, 2015): 11–22.
“Interview with Frances Whitehead.” Public Art Review, August 1, 2014. http://forecastpublicart.org/public-art-review/2014/08/podcast-frances-whitehead-interview/.
Shenker, Jack. “Revealed: The Insidious Creep of Pseudo-Public Space in London.” The Guardian, July 24, 2017, sec. Cities. http://www.theguardian.com/cities/2017/jul/24/revealed-pseudo-public-space-pops-london-investigation-map.
Whitehead, Frances. “What do Artists Know?.” Embedded Artist Project, 2006. http://embeddedartistproject.com/whatdoartistsknow.html.

Guest Speakers

Starla Hart, Program Officer, Local Initiatives Support Corporation (LISC) Indianapolis
Brian Payne, President & CEO, Central Indiana Community Foundation

Seminar 5: Emergent Best Practices in Public Art and Design
10 October 2017, 4-6PM

Alemani, Cecilia, Nicholas Baum, Renaud Proch, Sara Reisman, Manon Slome, and Nato Thomson. “Common Grounds: A Round Table Conversation on Public Art in New York City.” In High Art: Public Art on the Highline, edited by Cecilia Alemani, 26–38. New York: Skira Rizolli, 2015.
Bedoya, Roberto. “Placemaking and the Politics of Belonging and Dis-Belonging.” GIA Reader 24, no. 1 (2013).
Ehrenfeucht, Renia. “Art, Public Spaces, and Private Property along the Streets of New Orleans.” Urban Geography 35, no. 7 (2014): 965–79.
Koh, Annette. “Placemaking When Black Lives Matter.” Progressive City, April 3, 2017.
McCoy, Richard. “The Columbus Challenge.” Objects Specialty Group Postprints: Proceedings of the Objects Specialty Group Session, May 29 – June 1, 2014, American Institute for Conservation 42nd Annual Meeting, San Francisco, California 21 (2014): 363–77.

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Seminar 6: The Future of Public Art
2 November 2017, 4-6PM

Lloréns, Hilda, and Rosa E. Carrasquillo. “Sculpting Blackness: Representations of Black-Puerto Ricans in Public Art.” Visual Anthropology Review 24, no. 2 (2008): 103–16.
Schacter, Rafael. “Street Art Is a Period. Period. Or the Emergence of Intermural Art.” Hyperallergic, July 16, 2016.
———. “The Ugly Truth: Street Art, Graffiti and the Creative City.” Art & the Public Sphere 3, no. 2 (2014): 161–76.

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