Participation

How are audience expectations and public participation changing?

Cai Guo-Qiang: Fireflies, 2017. Photo by Jeff Fusco, courtesy of Association for Public Art.

Questions of Practice: Artist Cai Guo-Qiang on Audience Participation in Public Art

Contemporary artist Cai Guo-Qiang describes the role of audience participation in his large-scale public art installation for Philadelphia’s Benjamin Franklin Parkway.

Questions of Practice: Choreographer and Performer Nora Chipaumire on Connecting with Her Audience

Supported by a Center Advancement grant, the Philadelphia Museum of Art presented Chipaumire’s portrait of myself as my father in the fall of 2016.

Night render of The Ronald O. Perelman Center for Performing Arts at the World Trade Center © LUXIGON.

Questions of Practice: Performing Arts Producer Jenny Gersten on Art as an “Agent of Hope”

Jenny Gersten on Art as an “Agent of Hope”

Philadelphia Assembled opening reception, 2017. Photo by Joseph Hu, courtesy of the Philadelphia Museum of Art.

Questions of Practice: Visual Artist Jeanne van Heeswijk on Collective Authorship

Visual Artist Jeanne van Heeswijk on Collective Authorship

Primary school in Gando, Burkina Faso, completed 2001. Designed by Francis Kéré, Burkinabe, active Berlin. Photograph by Erik-Jan Ouwerkerk.

Francis Kéré on Architecture and Community Collaboration

Francis Kéré on why every architecture project is “a product of collaboration.”

Questions of Practice: Phoenix Art Museum's Amada Cruz on Engaging Bilingual Communities in Museums

Amada Cruz on how her Hispanic heritage informs her approach to audience engagement in bilingual communities.

An overhead view of the PHS Pop Up Garden at the Viaduct Rail Park. Photo by Rob Cardillo.

On Urban Parks and Civic Life: Insights from Leaders at PA Horticultural Society, Trust for Public Land, High Line, Philadelphia Parks and Recreation

We invited leaders in the field to discuss the significance of urban parks in contemporary culture and the audience engagement opportunities these spaces can offer.

Faustin Linyekula's Philly Files. Photo by Jen Cleary.

Participation

Questions of Practice: Artist Cai Guo-Qiang on Audience Participation in Public Art

Questions of Practice: Choreographer and Performer Nora Chipaumire on Connecting with Her Audience

Questions of Practice: Performing Arts Producer Jenny Gersten on Art as an “Agent of Hope”

Questions of Practice: Visual Artist Jeanne van Heeswijk on Collective Authorship

Francis Kéré on Architecture and Community Collaboration

Questions of Practice: Phoenix Art Museum's Amada Cruz on Engaging Bilingual Communities in Museums

On Urban Parks and Civic Life: Insights from Leaders at PA Horticultural Society, Trust for Public Land, High Line, Philadelphia Parks and Recreation

Questions of Practice: Choreographer Faustin Linyekula on Theater and Civic Life

Questions of Practice: Composer and Pianist Vijay Iyer and Librettist Mike Ladd on Multivocality

"Sometimes We Need to Get Uncomfortable:" On Working with Artists in the Disabilities Community