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This is a survy of public art from around the world with a vocabulary to use to compare

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Public Art - A Mixed Vocabulary

The following concepts are commonly used to describe public art. The descriptions are contested, mostly at the

margins, and quite subjective; but they will help you categorize and discuss what you find appealing about

different types of public art

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Public Art - A Mixed Vocabulary

Site integrated: Integrated into the construction of a facility, usually through design team process

Site specific: Designed for a specific location but can be detached if necessary

Portable Works: Paintings, prints, photographs, glass, ceramic, small sculptures that are displayed throughout city facilities Temporary Art: Short-term artwork, often tied programmatically to the work or mission of an event or organization.

Installation Art: Site specific art that temporarily transforms a space.

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Public Art - A Mixed Vocabulary

Gateways: Creating a sense of arrival.

Transit/wayfinding: Providing orientation for travelers.

Murals: Part of a town-enhancement strategy.

Performance Art: Interdisciplinary performance mostly unscripted and usually presented only one time

Placemaker Art: Defines a community gathering place

Street Furniture: Benches, Streetlights, hatch covers/pavement, gates and fences, wall decoration

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Public Art - A Mixed Vocabulary

Think about these concepts as you view the following examples of public art from around the world

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Myrtle Edwards Park, Michael HeizerAdjacent, Against, Upon, 1976

Tilikum Place Park, James Wehn, Chief Seattle Fountain, 1909

Seattle Art Museum, Jonathan Borofsky,

Hammering Man, 1991

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Sidewalk Stamps • Seattle, Washington

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Yarn-bombingSeattle, New York, Toledo

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MuralsPhiladelphia, Chicago, Seattle

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Fremont NeighborhoodSeattle, Washington

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Repurposed Lenin statue from former USSR

Fremont NeighborhoodSeattle, Washington

Repurposed ICBM missileFremont Neighborhood

Seattle, Washington

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Grass BladesPainted steel sculpture • 2003

Seattle, WashingtonJohn Fleming and Susan Zoccola

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Downtown mural • Portland, OR

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The Spiders • Bronze • ClevelandTemporary art installation

Louise Bourgeois

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Father and Son, 2005. Olympic Sculpture Garden

Seattle, Washington Louise Bourgeois

Puppy, 1992 Guggenheim Museum, Bilbao, Spain

Jeff Koons

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Public Seats

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Fremont NeighborhoodSeattle

Public TransportationSeattle, Washington

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Fire Station ArtSeattle, Wash

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Ziggurat–East, Summer • Abandoned Fisher Body Plant, DetroitSculptural installation and photography project

Scott Hocking

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Cloud Gate • Millennium Park, ChicagoAnish Kapoor

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The Gates • Central Park, New York • 2005Christo and Jeanne-Claude

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Steam Pig 2010 Art Prize

Grand Rapids, Michigan

Aires Libres Montreal, Canada 2011

Claude Cormier

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Seattle, Prague

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Bell Town PopsicleSeattle, Washington

Catherine Mayer

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Big Blue Bear(I see what you

mean) •

Colorado Convention

Center, Denver•

Elizabeth Thomsen

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Eyeball benches • Seattle, WALouise Bourgeois

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Co2LED • Arlington County, VASolar-powered LEDs on rods, each topped with a reused plastic bottle

Jack Sanders, Robert Gay and Butch Anthony

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Art Tool, 12 foot imprint of Los Angeles as seen from above

Santa Monica, 1986

Pocket Beach Olympic Park

Seattle, Washington

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The SequenceBrussels

Arne Quinze

UchroniaNevada

Arne Quinze

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Federal BuildingTacoma, Washington

Dale Chihuly

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Balloon DogNew YorkJeff Coons

Cloud CityMOMA, New York

2012Tomás Saraceno

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New York, Seattle

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Odette Sculpture Park, Windsor

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Odette Sculpture Park, Windsor

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Odette Sculpture Park, Windsor

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Odette ParkWindsor, Ontario

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Memorial ArtToledo, New York

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Pima Freeway, Scottsdale, Arizona

Nisbet Road Pedestrian Bridge Phoenix, Arizona

Alavadaro Water Treatment Plant, San Diego. Branded questions about San Diego water history, 1998

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Waterfront FountainSeattle, Washington, 1974

James Fitzgerald and Margaret Tompkins

Waterfront Place FallsVancouver, British Columbia

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