Browsing by Subject "Public Art"

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    An analysis of Public Art on University campuses: policies, procedures, and best practices.
    (2009-11) Grenier, Michael Robert
    This study investigated the policies, procedures, and practices of public art programs on the campuses of research institutions with very high activity as defined by the Carnegie Classification. From this particular type of institution, 55 of the 96 public art administrators provided their opinions, attitudes, and behaviors as part of the "Public Art on Campus Survey." As a result of the data received and analyzed, a clearer picture has emerged regarding the diversity and complexity of public art programming within this specific type of university landscape. Results indicated a wide range of definitions of what constituted public art, which in part, explains the large variance in numbers of items classified as public art. Statistical tests indicated many benefits experienced by institutions that included public art on campus as part of their articulated institutional master plan. Statistically significant as a group, master plan public art programs experienced an increased frequency of public art on campus, increased funding sources, and increased and on-going budget allocations dedicated to maintaining and restoring public art on campus. This comparative analysis indicated no difference between public and private institutions or between the categories of institutions operating in percent for art states and those that do not operate in a percent for art state. There are three major implications indicated from this research of public art on university campuses. First, public art programs that are considered as part of its institutional master plan intensely infuse public art on campus as part of the university life. Secondly, public art programming that is part of their institutional master plan operate as a strategic initiative that provided a democratic shield for university administrators and decision makers. Thirdly, public art on campus programs that reported being part of an institutional master plan promoted the continuous alignment of aims, goals, and objectives through the processes of strategic planning and program evaluation. Public art on campus is the physical embodiment of institutional missions and largely contributes to the creation and maintenance of the places where the community can learn, live, and dialogue within an environment rich in meaning. Public art on campus celebrates the search for knowledge, while promoting the free exchanges of ideas. The phenomena of public art on campus can no longer be ignored.
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    Communication of place identity through designed objects:can Public Artwork foster a sense of community?
    (2009-05) Olson, Randy Mickel
    Public artwork has been used as architectural embellishment or served as visual narrative to venerate a particular point of view. Over the past fifty years the purpose of public artifact has shifted to relevant site amenity. Utilizing a phenomenological method of inquiry this study seeks to determine to what extent a resident's experience of community is shaped by public sculptures placed in neighborhood parks. These artifacts were commissioned through the City of Minneapolis' Neighborhood Gateway Project. Between 1992 and 2004, eighteen Neighborhood Gateways were established. This study examines twelve residents' experience of these artifacts in three different communities to determine to what extent these resident's experience of community was shaped by the Gateway project. The results of this study provide commissioning agencies and artists with methods to address this shift and create artifacts with imbedded intrinsic value. Five pertinent themes were discovered by this study: Binding Metaphor, Multimodal Sensory Engagement, Sense of Pride, Creation of an Axis Mundi, and Opportunities for Dialogue These themes provide a framework whereby artists, funders and curators can more successfully integrate their artwork into community.