Announcements
Events
PAD Public Art Professional Dialogues: Demystifying the Book Proposal Process
Wednesday, November 3, 2021 at 5:00 PM EST / 2:00 PM PST
with PAD authors Cher Krause Knight and Annie Dell'Aria
Register in advance at:
https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZMrdOGvqT8tEtM0g-xwLQnyhJt0sLqAGOB3
Join us for a lively one-hour discussion of the ins and outs of drafting and submitting a book proposal. The conversation will touch on questions such as: How much of a book do you need to have written before you submit a proposal? How is a proposal for an edited book different from a proposal for a single-author text? How do you approach potential publishers at CAA? The event is geared for both published authors transitioning to new book genres and potential first-time authors. Come with questions!
Cher Krause Knight is co-editor of Museums and Public Art? (2018) and A Companion to Public Art (2016) and author of Power and Paradise in Walt Disney's World (2014); and Public Art: Theory, Practice and Populism (2008). Annie Dell'Aria is author of The Moving Image as Public Art: Sidewalk Spectators and Modes of Enchantment (2021).
Open to all those with active PAD Memberships. Join or renew here: https://publicartdialogue.org/civicrm/contribute/transact?reset=1&id=1
Monuments in the National Park Service
November 11, 2021, 6pm – 7:30pm ET / 3pm – 4:30pm PT – Justice Denied, Injustice Remembered
This event examines the history and contemporary significance of two commemorative sites in the Midwest: the Dred and Harriet Scott Statue, which is managed by Gateway Arch National Park in St. Louis, Missouri, and the Haymarket Martyrs’ Monument, a National Historic Landmark near Chicago, Illinois. Register Now.
December 9, 2021, 6pm – 7:30pm ET / 3pm – 4:30pm PT – Working People’s Hidden Histories
This event examines monuments that relate to working people’s hidden histories. Speakers will address ongoing struggles to create new memorials as well as discuss the silences that pervade commemorative landscapes. Register now.
"Monumental Labor" is a three-part public event series that explores the memory of work and working peoples in monuments and memorials at National Parks and National Historic Landmarks. For more about the series visit the webpage here: https://www.nps.gov/subjects/labor/monumental-labor.htm. "Monumental Labor" is organized by NPS Mellon Humanities Fellows Dr. Eleanor Mahoney (eleanor_mahoney@partner.nps.gov) and Dr. Emma Silverman (emma_silverman@partner.nps.gov). It is made possible by the National Park Service in part by a grant from the National Park Foundation and Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.
Exhibitions
Ongoing or ending before February 2022
The Parkette Projects
September 12–November 20, 2021
Toronto, ON
Mitchell Akiyama, Raven Chacon, Ronnie Clarke, Vanessa Dion Fletcher, Marisa Gallemit and Amy Lam
Curated by Shani K Parsons
Parkettes are defined as small pieces of leftover or unsaleable land that have been converted into public space. Often found in proximity to municipal margins and infrastructures, Toronto's parkettes provide oblique glimpses into the city's socio-political, economic and geographic histories. Featuring seven newly commissioned performances and temporary installations, The Parkette Projects probe existing tensions and future potentials for poetic and political relations between self, body, site, and society across a shifting urban landscape. Sponsored by Gallery TPW as part of Toronto’s Year of Public Art.
Contact information:
Shani K Parsons, Curator
shanikparsons@gmail.com(link sends e-mail) / director@criticaldistance.ca(link sends e-mail)
Prospect.5: Yesterday We Said Tomorrow
October 23, 2021 – January 2022
New Orleans, LA, citywide
Inspired by New Orleans jazz musician Christian Scott aTunde Adjuah’s 2010 album Yesterday You Said Tomorrow, the title of the exhibition centers the unspoken present, the place where past and future come together, and where other courses of action become possible. The exhibition title also implies the deferral of meaningful change, which often comes slowly or not at all. The artists and ideas that define this exhibition confront this truth, and the stark realities of history, but also suggest that we might yet plot a different future.
Prospect.5 features an intergenerational group of 51 artists from the United States, the Caribbean, Africa, and Europe. The artists have created projects that emerge from research into place, express connections to the past and to land, and seek to form and reflect community. They have considered the ways in which history continues to shape the present, and their artworks are testaments to acts of ritual, selfhood, and modes of resistance that define daily life in New Orleans and beyond. Their projects offer spaces of memorialization and mourning, and of imagination and togetherness.