Public art

SAVANNAH, Ga. (AP) — Georgia’s oldest public art museum has hired a new chief curator.

The Telfair Museums in Savannah announced recently that Crawford Alexander Mann III take its top curator job in November.

PROVIDENCE, R.I. (AP) — A street mural saying “All Black Lives Matter” is being installed in downtown Providence.

Providence Mayor Jorge Elorza was on hand Saturday for the unveiling of the public art project in Kennedy Plaza, the transit hub overlooking City Hall, which came as the city kicked off PVDFest, its summerlong art festival.

NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — A large-scale public artwork composed of giant sheets of jute sacks will be on display at Fisk University through May 31 as part of an initiative to promote social justice...

CHICAGO (AP) — Efforts to create a public art project honoring those killed during race riots in Chicago in 1919 are gaining traction...

FORT WAYNE, Ind. (AP) — Local artists are painting murals on storefront windows that were boarded up in downtown Fort Wayne during George Floyd protests to support the Black Lives Matter movement.

CHARLESTON, W.Va. (AP) — The city of Charleston on Monday created an online art database for people to use during the coronavirus pandemic...

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Cheerleaders leapt into the air amid the pop and shower of confetti cannons outside South Philadelphia High Wednesday. The mayor looked on, clapping.

Students kept looking up at the reason they had gathered in the bitter cold: The new mural that told their school’s story — colorful, complex, proud.

'The Marigolds' public art installation coming to Buckeye neighborhood Saturday

CLEVELAND, Ohio – Residents of Cleveland's Buckeye neighborhood and beyond are being invited to come out and celebrate a new public art installation that celebrates the spirit and endurance of the neighborhood, with three generations of a Buckeye family at the heart of the exhibit.

Many of the ceramic tiles at the Warehouse District light-rail stop are imprinted with photographs of soup kitchens and Teamster strikes a nod to Minneapolis rough-hewed industrial past.

Fourteen years after the Blue Line LRT began service, several of the stations tiles are cracked and gouged due to vandalism and the wear-and-tear of Minnesotas harsh climate.

HUNTINGTON - Downtown Huntington has been upping its public art game in recent years, and now the city wants to take it up a notch or two. The Mayor's Council for the Arts on Thursday unveiled a new public art policy/master plan and has launched an online inventory of potential locations to encourage public art on city-owned property.

NORWALK, Conn. (AP) — Yohanna Escamilla can tell you about the rhythms that are at the heart of flamenco, but it's so much more fun to watch her pound them into the floor...

In a bid to retain the livability that officials say is an economic engine for the city, Madison may soon set aside funds in big projects for public art.

Mayor Paul Soglin and five City Council members are proposing an ordinance that would set aside 1 percent of the total budget for city capital projects exceeding $5 million for public art.

Rochester's City Council will have a chance to flex its artistic side on Monday.

During the weekly committee of the whole meeting at 3:30 p.m. in room 104 of City Hall, 201 Fourth St. SE, the council will receive a copy of the public art master plan prepared for the Greater Rochester Arts and Cultural Trust.