Public Art in the Urban Context

Catalog description

Public Art in the Urban Context is a civic engagement art course that involves a partnership between the Pace Art Department, the New York Cares organization and the local New York City public schools. In this relationship, the local schools are the “client” and “commission” a site–specific artwork to be designed and produced by the Pace Students in the course. Students will be guided through the design process and work together to meet with the client, research the site and its community, create and present a professional proposal to the client, negotiate changes and design restrictions, create a working schedule, learn to scale their work and prepare the site and produce the work within the time available, and finally document the work to create an artist portfolio.