The quantitative impacts of an artwork—especially a free, temporary, artwork visiting multiple sites like Public Trust—can be challenging to measure. But tracking who interacts with our work is necessary not just to secure funding or media coverage.
Your Public Trust Stories
Are we living more bravely one month out?
How have the words you spoke at Public Trust with Paul Ramirez Jonas taken up residence in your life? Reflections one month out and an invitation to share your story about how making a promise, and making it public, has inspired you to take action and live more bravely. (Plus win a gift certificate to get your promise framed!)
Art in Service: Who is it for?
The promises of our children
From loving more to being champions, children gave us their promises during a Public Trust preview at Summer Paint Nights with Center for Art and Community Partnerships' (CACP) spark! ArtMobile and Project R.I.G.H.T.
Measuring impact
Evaluating the impact of public art is the Achilles heel of artists and public art administrators worldwide. Instinctively we know that public art is a catalyst for economic development, that it increases the appeal and safety of one’s environment, and that it delivers unexpected surprise and wonder to our shared places. In this blog we offer three techniques for measuring impact and ask, is it even needed?
Go make some art!
Learning From Our Communities Wrap-Up
Learning From Our Communities is a simple, small community engagement project we initiated for the Emerge festival at City Hall, and decided to bring to the Boston Center of the Arts Open Studios weekend as well. We asked the public a variety of questions regarding their thoughts and opinions on what their neighborhoods need as well as the gems and resources they cherish.
Think spring, summer...and winter.
Spring is here and it's time to start thinking about yes, winter. Following are three calls for temporary art in Greater Boston planned for July through December plus an excellent residency opportunity for those of you interested in deepening your public practice work. What are you waiting for? Get busy planning!