Public Art

It’s Time to Chalk It Up Again

One of my favorite events in Sacramento is taking place this weekend in Fremont Park– Chalk it Up! Please make sure you check out their website and stop by the event!! I shot the photo above during the 2006 event. To see more photos, see my Chalk It Up...

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Day 19: Nittany Lion Shrine – State College, PA

State College is a great college town tucked away in the mountains of Central Pennsylvania, and is home to Penn State University. It is one of the beautiful, quaint small towns that you associate with the Eastern United States. It always makes it near the top of best places to live list, and was recently named the best place to live for singles by Money Magazine. The Nittany Lion Shrine,...

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Tampa Debating City-Wide Public Art Fee for Developers

Many cities across the country have instituted fees for developers on projects, usually a certain percentage of the total development costs. Tampa, Florida is no different, according to a Susan Thurston article in the City Times edition of the St. Petersburg Times. Tampa mandates that developers of projects in the downtown’s central business district set aside either 0.75 percent of the...

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Portland’s Innovative Residents Reclaim the Streets

This is one of the most interesting projects I have ever come across, and I cannot wait to visit Portland someday and see it. The idea is for citizens to reclaim the streets as public places and not just auto-zones. The project, called Intersection Repair, is best explained by their website: How do you create a public square out of an intersection? The community works together to make the...

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