Public Art Program
Public Art Course
This course will guide participants through the creative process of making site-specific public art, imagining Harvard Yard as a canvas for art. It will culminate in a student-created temporary public artwork during the ARTS FIRST festival, May 1-4, 2008.
Ten Red Phones, installation created by the Public Art Course Spring 2007 at ARTS FIRST 2007
First Meeting, Thursday, February 7, 6:00 pm, Office for the Arts, 74 Mt. Auburn Street. Class Schedule TBD at First Meeting. Registration for the class not required to attend the first informational meeting (pizza and beverages provided).
Registration fee Spring 2008: $25.00 (Check or Term-Bill)
Class registration forms
Registration: February 4-5 at the Office for the Arts, 74 Mt. Auburn Street, 10am-5pm, first come first serve, in person only.
Instructor: Gary Duehr, co-director of the Invisible Cities Group, which creates large-scale urban detours combining performance, poetry, and installations of visual art. He has been awarded support from the New England Foundation for the Arts and the Massachusetts Cultural Council, and has shown his work internationally in museums and galleries from Boston and New York to Belgrade and Havana. Duehr has published four books of poetry and has been awarded a National Endowment for the Arts Poetry Fellowship. He reviews photography for Artscope, and has written about the arts for numerous publications. He also manages Bromfield Gallery in Boston’s South End.
Website: www.garyduehr.com
Past Public Art Course Projects
