We invite you to join us for the fifth meeting of The Ethics, Values, and Practices of Public Art in Urban Contexts Seminar Series on October 10, 2017. This session’s topic will be “Emergent Best Practices in Public Art.”

Our guest speaker for this session will be

Richard McCoy, Director, Landmark Columbus
We have a limited number of seats, so please be sure to sign up as soon as possible. Here is a link to reserve your spot:

http://go.iu.edu/1GZm

We will keep a waitlist if the event fills up.

About The Ethics, Values, and Practices of Public Art in Urban Contexts Seminar Series
Cities across the US are grappling with major transformations that expose the many tensions inherent to historical disparities in economics, education, safety, and political access brought on by inequalities based in race and class. Midwest cities have responded to these challenges with a variety of approaches. This seminar series is concerned with addressing one of them: the role of culture in reshaping cities – specifically through public art.

In the discourse and practice of urban design, public art has increasingly been seen as a key tool in redeveloping our cities – from making cities more livable and safe to encouraging economic development and educational achievement. Using art as a tool to address urban design challenges goes by a variety of different names: creative placemaking, civic art, and tactical urbanism, to name a few. These approaches are fundamentally tied to ethical frameworks and notions of value.

Seminar meetings will discuss the intersections of ethics, public art, and urban design through shared readings, guest speakers, and conversation. We invite you to join us as we host six meetings in 2017 to discuss the following topics.

• What is Public Art?

• Histories of Public Art and the Common Good

• Public Art, Representation, and Gentrification

• The Urban Landscape as Art Space

• Emergent Best Practices in Public Art

• Futures of Public Art

For more information, contact the organizers: Jason M. Kelly (jaskelly@iupui.edu), Pamela Napier (pcnapier@iupui.edu), or Fiona P. McDonald (fpmcdona@iupui.edu)

This event is supported by the Indiana University Consortium for the Study of Religion, Ethics, and Society, the IUPUI Arts & Humanities Institute, and the Herron School of Art and Design