Taking It to the Streets:
A Guide to Making Art in the Public

Saturday, October 25, 9-4pm

Do you have an idea for a public art piece but no sense of how to make it happen? Are you interested in the questions and dialogue surrounding creating art in the public? Recognizing that public art exists in many forms from sculpture to performance to conceptual, NYFA’s Fall 2008 Business of Art Conference will offer an artist-focused discussion on the ins and outs of public art.

Taking It to the Streets will provide visual artists with practical information combined with candid anecdotal advice. Morning seminars will include an introduction to Percent for the Arts, a discussion between nonprofit arts organizations concerning commissions and competitions and will be followed by artist Eve Mosher’s account of what she learned when creating a large city-wide piece. An afternoon panel of arts professionals and practicing artists will provide further opportunity to raise questions around such topics as working with architects, funding large projects and developing marketing around your ideas. Throughout the day, curators and arts professionals will be available to give individualized feedback to artists on project proposals and portfolios.

Location:
Barney Building
Department of Art and Art Professions
New York University Steinhardt School of Education
34 Stuyvesant Street
New York, NY 10003

Cost:
Artist Rate: $95 per artist
NYFA Artist Rate: $50
(This includes all NYFA Fellows, NYFA MARK artists and Fiscally Sponsored Artists and Organizations)
Discounts available for current NYU students and staff.
The fee includes all workshops, panels, lunch and an appointment with a Doctor's Hours Appointment. Please note that all Doctor's Hours events during the conference are on a first come first serve basis..

Registration:
This Conference has SOLD OUT.

Questions or to be put on the mailing list:
Please contact Christa Blatchford at cblatchford@nyfa.org or 212- 366-6900 x 338.

Conference Schedule
Further information and descriptions will be regularly added here.
9:00 Registration & Doctor’s Hours Sign Up
9:30 Welcome
9:45- 10:45 Intro to Percent for the Arts
Speaker: Kelly Pajek, Percent for Art
Description: Since, 1982, the NYC Percent for Art Program has been selecting professional, fine artists to create permanent public art in City-owned buildings. Artists selected to create projects are drawn from a registry. Pejak will outline how to join the registry, how the panel process works as well as what to expect when creating a public project of this scale.
10:50-12:00 Key Elements of Strong Proposals and Projects
Moderator: Christa Blatchford, NYFA
Panelists: Elizabeth Linden, Public Art Fund and Clare Weiss, NYC Parks and Recreation
Description:
12:05- 1:15 DIY- How I Made My Public Project Happen
Speaker: Eve Mosher, Artist
Description: During the summer of 2007, artists Eve Mosher undertook a public art project, HighWaterLine which visualized the effects of Global Warming on NYC. Mosher will walk us through her process of brainstorming, networking and implementing her public project and give tips of what she learned along the way.
1:15 – 2:15 Lunch
NYFA Information Table open for all questions on NYFA Source and Fiscal Sponsorship.
2:30 – 4:00 Panel: Going Public
Moderator: Ingrid Chu, Curator and Critic
Artist Panelists: Jackie Ferrara, Nina Katchadourian,and Kurt Perschke
Curator Panelist: Adam Kleinman, LMCC
Description:Three artists and two curators speak candidly about their experience working on public projects.

Organized by the New York Foundation for the Arts, the conferences are made possible by a generous grant from the Emily Hall Tremaine Foundation. Additional funding has been provided by the Empire State Development Corporation. Additional support is provided by the Department of Art and Art Professions, New York University Steinhardt School of Education.