Volunteer Public Artworks

At this moment, my wife and I are attempting to guess that if the Turkish military invades northern Iraq, then will our long planned and long desired trip to Istanbul be ruined. Today the Turkish prime minister signaled that he would support an attack against the Kurdish rebels after the suicide bomb in central Ankara. Our plane leaves in 36 hours. In any case, Turkey, Germany or Florida, I am taking a vacation for two weeks from the Blog.

Here are a few sites of civicly coordinated volunteer artworks. Please send me more sites.

Postal Boxes in Singapore
BoxesSingapore.jpg


Electrical Distribution Boxes in Brisbane, Australia
Boxes%20artforce_maingraphic.jpg


Electrical Distribution Boxes in Gilhorn, Germany
BoxesGlifhorn.jpg


Painted Bus Shelters in Seattle Area, USA
Boxessm_solarsystemgallery.jpg


Video on Santa Cruz, California Boxes

Boxes in Tampa, Florida

Boxes in Stamford, Conn

May 24, 2007 9:53 PM | | Comments (2)

Categories:

2 Comments

Hope the war doesn't happen..Wow!!! what a creativity! Its looks awesome and I'll send post and travel in the bus daily at least to take a look at this well-painted post-box and bus-stand...Thanks for the link...

Hello & Thank You.
I appreciate Art Journal.com. It expands my scope and I use such offerings to stir current interest in the arts with my college students.
The face of education is changing and I try to spark an appetite for visual art by using the medium of greatest interest these days.
The international flavor of the site and cultural interest is a bonus. More than good note
takers and information regurgitators.........I look for students who can go beyond my focus, priorities and prescribed curriculum to seek art information and experience which stirs them to their core and has them wanting more. Then they are more apt to share genuine excitement for the arts with their students.
Next semester I'm going to develop some assignments that bring them to this site and let them decide
which offerings have something for them.

Art is a key to survival in these questionable times. It is a place where we can find common ground and appreciate the creativity, diversity and originality in others as well as ourselves. The internet lets us
jump ship and visit museums all over the world and meet people who share common passions.

S. Foster, Ph.D. instructor
California State Univ. Sacramento &
Sacramento Metropolitan Arts Commission

Leave a comment

Linkable

Current Links: October 


Yoko Ono's "Imagine Peace" tower of light was turned on on October 9, 2007.

Chris Doyle's new "The Moons" project is dedicated on October 10, 2007 in Kansas City. Video of 600 residents jumping on trampolines is remixed to give the impression of flying.

more picks

Blogroll

About this Entry

This page contains a single entry by Aesthetic Grounds published on May 24, 2007 9:53 PM.

Cool Globes - Public Art as Vaudeville was the previous entry in this blog.

Richard Wilson in Liverpool is the next entry in this blog.

Find recent content on the main index or look in the archives to find all content.

AJ Blogs

AJBlogCentral | rss

special
Program Notes
the blog of the National Performing Arts Convention
culture
About Last Night
Terry Teachout on the arts in New York City
Artful Manager
Andrew Taylor on the business of arts & culture
blog riley
rock culture approximately
CultureGulf
Rebuilding Gulf Culture after Katrina
diacritical
Douglas McLennan's blog
Flyover
Art from the American Outback
Mind the Gap
No genre is the new genre
Rockwell Matters
John Rockwell on the arts
Straight Up |
Jan Herman - arts, media & culture with 'tude

dance
Foot in Mouth
Apollinaire Scherr talks about dance
Seeing Things
Tobi Tobias on dance et al...

media
Out There
Jeff Weinstein's Cultural Mixology
Serious Popcorn
Martha Bayles on Film...

music
The Future of Classical Music?
Greg Sandow performs a book-in-progress
Jazz Beyond Jazz
Howard Mandel's freelance Urban Improvisation
ListenGood
Focus on New Orleans. Jazz and Other Sounds
On the Record
Exploring Orchestras w/ Henry Fogel
PostClassic
Kyle Gann on music after the fact
Rifftides
Doug Ramsey on Jazz and other matters...
Sandow
Greg Sandow on the future of Classical Music
Slipped Disc
Norman Lebrecht on Shifting Sound Worlds

publishing
book/daddy
Jerome Weeks on Books
Quick Study
Scott McLemee on books, ideas & trash-culture ephemera

theatre
lies like truth
Chloe Veltman on how culture will save the world
Stage Write
Elizabeth Zimmer on time-based art forms

visual
Aesthetic Grounds
Public Art, Public Space
Artopia
John Perreault's art diary
CultureGrrl
Lee Rosenbaum's Cultural Commentary
Modern Art Notes
Tyler Green's modern & contemporary art blog
Creative Commons License
This weblog is licensed under a Creative Commons License.