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Public Art Dialogue Public Art Dialogue (PAD) is an organization founded on the premise that dialogue is the essential element in all effective public art endeavors.

About PAD

WELCOME to Public Art Dialogue (PAD), an organization devoted to public art. PAD was founded on the premise that dialogue is the essential element in all effective public art endeavors. Our membership includes art historians, artists, curators, administrators, educators, architects, landscape architects, and others engaged with the wide arc that public art encompasses. Our goal is to provide platforms for dialogue among public art professionals and students across disciplines. PAD is an affiliate of the College Art Association (CAA) and sponsors both a panel and roundtable discussion at CAA’s annual meetings. In addition, PAD hosts a business meeting and the annual presentation of the PAD Award.

Get Repost App • henrymooreinstitute Call for participation: The Moral Right of Skateable SculptureConference, to take p...
10/24/2026

Get Repost App • henrymooreinstitute Call for participation: The Moral Right of Skateable Sculpture

Conference, to take place on Friday 19 March 2027 at Henry Moore Institute, Leeds

Deadline for proposals: Friday 11 December 2026, 17:00

The Moral Right of Skateable Sculpture will bring together academics, artists and skateboarders interested in the emergent field of ‘skateable’ sculpture.

This symposium seeks to examine the recent history and contemporary moment of skateable sculpture. What new forms of artistic thinking, public interaction or critical response do these works engender, and what might it mean for an artwork to have the moral right to be skated upon?

We're looking for individual 20 minute papers to form part of two sessions, each followed by a panel talk chaired by Dr Ted Barrow and Dr Esther Sayers respectively. We are encouraging proposals for papers that bring new insights and critical perspectives to the field of skateable sculpture. This may range from the art-historical to practice-based, from skateboard academia to lived experience, or beyond.

Find out more and submit a proposal via the link in our bio or go straight to https://henry-moore.org/discover-and-research/sculpture-research-programme/calls-for-papers/the-moral-right-of-skateable-sculpture/

This symposium is organised in collaboration with Dr Harry Meadley Harry Meadley (Senior Lecturer in Fine Art, Leeds School of Arts, Leeds Beckett University Leeds Beckett Fine Art)

Image: Jonathan Monk, Pyramid 2015. Photo: Steve Weinik

Get Repost App • The James Gallery Join us on Tuesday, October 27, for Public Work: Art, Labor, and the City, a conversa...
10/22/2026

Get Repost App • The James Gallery Join us on Tuesday, October 27, for Public Work: Art, Labor, and the City, a conversation with artists Alex Strada (Alex Strada) and Emilio Martínez Poppe (Emilio Martínez Poppe) and curators Molly Garfinkel (Molly Garfinkel) and Jodi Waynberg (Jodi Waynberg) about contemporary approaches to artists working within and alongside the public sector.

Presented in conjunction with ART/WORK: The Practice and Politics of CETA and the Arts, 1974–1981.

Tuesday, October 27 | 6:30 PM
James Gallery, The Graduate Center, CUNY
365 Fifth Avenue, NYC

RSVP at the James Gallery website or via link in bio.

Image:
Top: Alex Strada, Public Address, installation view, Petrosino Square, New York, October 2025–March 2026. Courtesy of the artist and Storefront for Art and Architecture. Photo: Michael Oliver.
Bottom: Emilio Martínez Poppe, Civic Views, installation view, Philadelphia City Hall Courtyard, June 2025. Courtesy of Mural Arts Philadelphia. Photo: Zach Hill.

Get Repost App • The Municipal Art Society Beloved by planners and urbanists from all walks of life, The Social Life of ...
10/22/2026

Get Repost App • The Municipal Art Society Beloved by planners and urbanists from all walks of life, The Social Life of Small Urban Spaces is a witty and relevant meditation on how public space is used and designed in New York City. Originally released in 1980, the film was digitally restored last year through a collaboration between Anthology Film Archives, MAS, and the Project for Public Spaces. Join us for a screening in our offices on Thursday, November 12!

Directed by urbanist, sociologist, city planner, writer, and former MAS Board member, William H. “Holly” Whyte, the documentary has gained a cult following and provides timely reflections on how our public realm can better serve New Yorkers.

A reception and guided discussion on urban design and public space will follow the screening. You won't want to miss it!

General admission: $15
MAS members: Free!

Register or join today through the link in our bio.

Get Repost App • Madison Square Park We hope you will join us at the SVA Theatre from 9AM - 12PM on Friday, November 13,...
10/22/2026

Get Repost App • Madison Square Park We hope you will join us at the SVA Theatre from 9AM - 12PM on Friday, November 13, 2026, for Madison Square Park Conservancy’s 13th Annual Public Art Symposium.
Inspired by artist Roberto Lugo, whose works are on view in the park until December 6, this year’s symposium features two panel discussions among artists and curators, along with performances by Def Poetry Jam.
Click the link in our bio to register and learn more.

Get Repost App • Creative Time 📣 We are thrilled to announce “Consejos de las Estrellas,” a new public art project by Gu...
10/20/2026

Get Repost App • Creative Time 📣 We are thrilled to announce “Consejos de las Estrellas,” a new public art project by Guadalupe Maravilla, commissioned by Creative Time and presented in collaboration with The Clemente Center in Synod Hall on the campus of the Cathedral of St. John The Divine (St. John the Divine) in Morningside Heights, Upper Manhattan.

Designed as a sanctuary space for respite, renewal and healing, Maravilla’s expansive sculptural installation will transform the historic, Gothic-style assembly hall with nearly 100 new sculptures and woven textile pieces anchored by a metamorphosis of the artist’s school bus “Mariposa Relámpago” and a resonant soundscape of gongs and a newly engineered vibrating floor, which will be activated by Maravilla’s weekly sound baths.

Maravilla sees his journey as an unaccompanied minor fleeing the Salvadoran Civil War in and his later cancer diagnosis as intimately connected traumas, which deeply inform his ongoing exploration of the relationship between the body, memory and the potential for healing. “Consejos de las Estrellas” will bring together a constellation of practitioners offering a series of free sound baths, meditations and performances, and will also serve as a hub for mutual aid, including food, clothing and toy drives in collaboration with local community organizations.

Aware that guidance can be found within a multitude of sources, Maravilla sees his practice as an ongoing dialogue with his community, spiritual guides, and ancestors. Aligned with the poetics of the project title, Maravilla invites visitors to listen to the counsel of the stars 🌌

“Consejos de las Estrellas” will be free and open to all from December 17, 2026 through February 7, 2027. The full schedule of programs and registration details will be announced in November.

📷: Portrait of the artist for Guadalupe Maravilla: “Mariposa Relámpago.” Artwork commissioned by the Institute of Contemporary Art/Boston. Installation view, Guadalupe Maravilla: “Mariposa Relámpago,” The Contemporary Austin–Laguna Gloria, 2024. Courtesy of the artist and P·P·O·W, New York. Image courtesy The Contemporary Austin. Photo by Alex Boeschenstein.

Get Repost App • New Open Calls Daily Midnight Moment, the digital public art program run by Times Square Arts in New Yo...
10/20/2026

Get Repost App • New Open Calls Daily Midnight Moment, the digital public art program run by Times Square Arts in New York, accepts proposals on a rolling basis. Described as the world’s largest and longest-running digital public art program, it presents a new artist each month, synchronized nightly from 11:57pm to midnight across more than 90 billboards between 41st and 49th Streets.

Submissions are accepted through the SlideRoom portal with no fee and no deadline. Works must be original, completed moving-image pieces; stills, image sequences, and works in progress are not considered. Midnight Moment is a silent exhibition program, so the work must succeed without audio.

How to apply:
• Horizontal video, 170 seconds (2:50), 1920 x 1080 px or larger (required)
• 1 to 3 still images representing the work, 18 x 24 inches at 300 dpi, JPG or TIFF, no text or logos (required)
• Optional: horizontal 150-second cut, vertical 170-second and 150-second cuts (ideally 1176 x 1464 px), preview of additional channels

👉 https://timessquare.slideroom.com/ #/dashboard/program/52555
🔗 https://www.timessquarenyc.org/arts/submit-a-midnight-moment-proposal

Get Repost App • Delaware River Waterfront Calling all Philly artists! 🎨Want to see your artwork flying high above Spruc...
10/20/2026

Get Repost App • Delaware River Waterfront Calling all Philly artists! 🎨

Want to see your artwork flying high above Spruce Street Harbor Park?

Each summer, our Waterfront Arts Flag Exhibition transforms the park into an outdoor art gallery, featuring original designs from 16 selected artists.

We're looking for artists to help bring the next exhibition to life! Selected artists will receive a $300 honorarium, with all production costs covered.

Learn more about the exhibition and how to get involved at the link in our bio!

Get Repost App • Powerhouse Arts Featured Project:Powerhouse Arts collaborated with artist and poet Precious Okoyomon Pr...
10/20/2026

Get Repost App • Powerhouse Arts Featured Project:

Powerhouse Arts collaborated with artist and poet Precious Okoyomon Precious Okoyomon and OSO Industries OSO INDUSTRIES to design and fabricate "The Pleasure Principle" as part of "Among the Flowers I Learned to Love: A Garden of Decreation", a large-scale sculptural installation created for the inaugural Courtyard Commission at MoMA PS1.

Transforming the museum’s courtyard into an evolving landscape of plants, sound, and interactive sculpture, Okoyomon’s installation centers around an oversized teddy bear that visitors can enter, climb through, and explore. The sculpture is integrated into a living garden of grasses, flowers, weeds, sedges, pollinators, and vines, bringing together cultivated and wild growth alongside native and invasive species.

Working closely with Okoyomon and the project team, Powerhouse Arts supported the development of the sculpture from design through fabrication. The team constructed the piece using a combination of steel framing, foam, fiberglass, and concrete, with OSO Industries serving as concrete consultants and advisors throughout the process.

"Among the Flowers I Learned to Love: A Garden of Decreation" considers the garden as a space for rest, transformation, and renewal, creating an immersive environment where visitors can engage with sculpture, sound, and the natural world.

The installation is on view at MoMA PS1 through 2028.

Installation photography by John Kim, courtesy of MoMA PS1
In-process photography by Brian Ferreira & Jorg Jakoby

Construction shed street art in Brooklyn NY
10/20/2026

Construction shed street art in Brooklyn NY

When I taught in NYC, the city was our campus. I especially liked teaching sculpture in downtown Brooklyn, ranging from ...
10/18/2026

When I taught in NYC, the city was our campus. I especially liked teaching sculpture in downtown Brooklyn, ranging from two 19th-c Beecher memorials to Unity by ᕼᗩᑎK to plans by Kenseth Armstead for Abolitionist Square. I also invited Rich Garr to my classes to teach street art... Get Repost App • Anna Rodrigues How can we use public art on campuses to inform the work educational developers do at post-secondary institutions? That’s one of the questions my presentation at the Imagining Creative Worlds Symposium in November is exploring. It’s called From Hallways to Pathways: Investigating the use of campus public art and place-based education in the field of educational development. Another question I’m looking at is the potential of campus public art to support both classroom discussions and pop-up learning. Doing research for this project has given me the opportunity to photograph the public art found at Ontario Tech University campuses like this piece, Gate to the Future by André Fournelle. If you have a favourite piece at your campus, let me know what it is!
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