And Were Afraid to Ask Nolini Barretto, Producer, Sitelines Festival; Michele Brody, Artist; Peter Eleey, Curator and Producer, Creative Time; Anne Frederick, Executive Director, Hester Street Collaborative; Adam Kleinman (Moderator), Associate Curator, Lower Manhattan Cultural Council

WHAT:

Grants for Art in Public Spaces Panel Discussion and Information Session

Artists and curators in the public art field will present their past projects and discuss conceptual and practical issues in public art, including site and neighborhood selection, permits and insurance, community outreach, and project timelines and budgets. After the panel, LMCC staff will review the application guidelines, present sample timelines and permit agreements, and answer any questions you may have.

WHEN:

Thursday, August 17, 4pm

WHERE:

Lower Manhattan Cultural Council
125 Maiden Lane, 2nd Floor

RSVP: http://www.lmcc.net/grants/infosessions.html

WHO (PANELISTS):

Nolini Barretto, Producer, Sitelines Festival, Lower Manhattan Cultural Council worked for the Martha Graham School of Contemporary Dance for thirteen years. She was the Director of Marketing for Dance Theater Workshop, helping it transition into its new building, managing its re-branding efforts, and launching its inaugural season. While at DTW, Ms. Barretto was part of the National Arts Marketing Project's Advanced Audience Development Training. She was a founding Director of the Emergency Fund for Student Dancers, and continues to serve on its Board and on the Advisory Board of Buglisi/Foreman Dance.

Michele Brody, Artist, has been actively pursuing her career as an installation and public artist for the past twelve years. She has had one-person shows at Littlejohn Contemporary in NYC; Dina4 Projekte in Munich, Germany; and at the Museo de Arte y Diseño Contemporáneo in San José, Costa Rica. She has been the recipient of grants and residencies from the Pollack/Krasner Foundation, New York State Council on the Arts, New York Foundation for the Arts, Lower Manhattan Cultural Council, Marie Walsh Sharpe Art Foundation, and the Headlands Center for the Arts. Her permanent public works of art are installed on Wall Street, the Allerton MTA station in the Bronx, and at PS/MS 194 in the Bronx.

Peter Eleey. Curator and Producer, Creative Time has organized a diverse range of Creative Time artworks and events including Cai Guo-Qiang's Light Cycle (2003) pyrotechnics project for Central Park; Jenny Holzer's first xenon projections in the United States for New York City (2004); and sculptures, murals, performances, and conferences with Jim Hodges, Alex Katz, Zhang Huan, and Gary Hume, among others. He has also organized multi-artist projects and exhibitions for Creative Time, such as The Dreamland Artist Club (2004-5) in Coney Island, and The Plain of Heaven (2005), an international exhibition situated in a vacant meatpacking warehouse in Manhattan. As a critic, he is a regular contributor to London-based frieze magazine, and has lectured internationally on issues in public art practice.

Anne Frederick, Executive Director, Hester Street Collaborative co-founded Hester Street Collaborative (HSC), a design/build non-profit that works with underserved New York City communities to improve their physical environments. Prior to founding HSC, Ms. Frederick worked as an architect at Leroy Street Studio and taught as a built environment educator in the Parsons Pre-college program and the New York Foundation for Architecture’s Learning by Design program. Ms. Frederick initiated and taught the design-build education program “Ground Up” at Chinatown’s I.S. 131, which in 2004 completed the “The Wishing Garden,” a sculpture garden that students designed and built on their school campus. Ms. Frederick continues to teach at I.S. 131 and has expanded the Ground Up program to include an additional school, P.S. 134 in the Lower East Side. Currently, Ms. Frederick is working to further HSC’s mission by partnering with two local coalitions to ensure community participation in the re-design of local parks in Chinatown and the Lower East Side.

Adam Kleinman (Moderator), Associate Curator, Lower Manhattan Cultural Council is a curator and critic who has programmed numerous art exhibitions and events, including a lecture, events series, and rotating mini-exhibit in Terminal 5, Eero Saarinen’s vacated TWA terminal at John F. Kennedy International Airport (2004); a retrospective of Architectural Body Research Foundation (Arakawa/Gins) at the Bergen Kunsthall in Norway (2000); and numerous gallery shows in Chelsea, NY. In addition to his more formal work, Adam has deployed site-specific one-off performances around New York City. His critical work has been published in Abstract, Artforum, Artnet, Ego, Review, X-tra, “…” and in a range of independent artists' publications.

Opening Ceremony, Hester Street Collaborative's SIGN and PATH, 2006, funded by the 2005 Grants for Art in Public Spaces program