Dimitri Hadzi
Bronze
JFK Federal Building, at Cambridge St. and New Sudbury St.
View the finalists!
Please follow the link to view and comment on the three submissions for the Poe Square Public Artwork.
http://poeboston.blogspot.com/
BOSTON – Mayor Thomas M. Menino and the Edgar Allan Poe Foundation of Boston, in conjunction with the Boston Art Commission and as a result of a planning grant from the city's Edward Ingersoll Browne Trust Fund, were pleased to announce the selection of three finalists in the competition to develop public artwork celebrating the Boston-born writer, Edgar Allan Poe, and his creative work on Sept. 16, 2011.
The finalists were selected from a pool of 265 artists from 42 states and 13 countries who submitted their qualifications for consideration. Working with the Edgar Allan Poe Foundation of Boston, the Boston Art Commission will oversee the installation of the public artwork in Edgar Allan Poe Square, the city-owned plaza located at the southeast corner of Boylston Street and Charles Street South between Park Square and Boston Common.
The artists are Jennifer Bonner and her teammate architect Christian Stayner, both of Los Angeles; Ann Hirsch of Cambridge and her teammate Boston architect Robert Olson; and Stefanie Rocknak of Oneonta, New York. Their design proposals were first presented by the artists on Monday, Jan. 9, 2012, at the Campus Center of Emerson College (150 Boylston St., four doors east of Poe Square). The proposed concepts will be presented once again at the Boston Public Library in Copley Square by project manager Jean Mineo on Thursday, January 19, 2012, the 203rd birthday of the Boston-born Poe.
“The high caliber of the artists selected as finalists signifies not only the commitment of the Poe Foundation to create an exceptional artwork for the City of Boston but also the excitement felt in Boston and beyond for Edgar Allan Poe and his work as an artistic subject,” said Staff Director Karin Goodfellow on behalf of the Boston Art Commission as the proposals were about to be presented.
The three finalists will each be awarded a $1,000 grant from the Browne Trust Fund for creating their artwork design plans for public inspection. As of Jan. 10, 2012, community feedback - comments and suggestions about the proposals - will be welcome on this "Poe Square Public Artwork Public Forum" blog, and at a series public meetings, and as well as via the Poe Foundation of Boston's links to Facebook and Twitter. A five-member review committee of the Boston Art Commission will recommend a final selection in early March 2012, at which point proponents plan to be prepared for an estimated $100, 000 fundraising challenge to complete the project.
LIGHTHOUSE Opening
Thursday, January 12, 6:00 – 8:00PM
Boston Harbor Islands Pavilion (between State St. & Atlantic Ave.)
The Greenway Conservancy invites you to celebrate the opening of LIGHTHOUSE,a temporary art installation on the Greenway at the Boston Harbor Islands Pavilion. Join us on site for a brief presentation from the team of artists and an interactive dance performance. We’ll warm up with hot beverages donated by Sel de la Terre then move indoors for an after party at the Waterline bar in the Marriott Long Wharf Hotel.
Photo Nights Boston presents a call to artists and photographers, both near and far!
Deadline: Friday, February 3, 2012.
Boston is one of the few urban centers in the United States whose historic buildings share equal space and prominence with more modern constructions within the city. Photo Nights Boston seeks to draw attention to these landmark buildings with large-scale outdoor projections. As part of Photo Nights Boston's October 2012 public art event, an artist will be selected to design and produce a photography-based work of public art as a focal point for the program.
Eligibility: Open to artists 18 years of age or older with no geographic restriction.
Budget: Finalists will receive a $1,000 proposal development fee. The project budget is $10,000.
Call to artists: Photo Nights Boston public art call to photographers.
Consultant: Urban Arts Institute at Massachusetts College of Art and Design
For inquiries regardinf this call, please contact:
Ricardo D. Barreto, Director
Urban Arts Institute
ricardo.barreto@massart.edu or 617.879.7970
For general inquiries regarding Photo Nights Boston, please contact:
Katie Noble, Executive Director
Photo Nights Boston
photonightsboston@gmail.com
Download the Photo Nights Boston public art call to photographers.
Want more contemporary public art in Boston? Spread the word: Rose Kennedy Greenway Conservancy issues RFP for public art consultant/team to create a public art strategy and plan. Proposal deadline 11/15 at 4PM. Check out the Rose Kennedy Greenway site for more details.
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The Rose Kennedy Greenway Conservancy is seeking proposals from consultants or consultant teams with specific experience in creating and/or executing public art programs to develop a 5-7 year Public Art Strategy and Plan as part of the Conservancy-facilitated Public Art Planning Process. Parties interested in responding are asked to submit 5 copies of their proposal, and one electronic copy, no later than 4PM on Tuesday, November 15, 2011 to:
Kate Gilbert
Manager of Public Art Planning Process
Rose F. Kennedy Greenway
185 Kneeland Street, 7th Floor
Boston, MA 0211
The electronic copy (no more than 10MB in total file size) should be sent to publicart@rosekennedygreenway.org with “Greenway Public Art Consultant RFP” in the subject line.
A pre-proposal meeting for all respondents will be held on November 2, 2011 to address questions. Any additional questions about the RFP may be sent to Kate Gilbert at publicart@rosekennedygreenway.org by Friday, November 4, 2011, 4PM. Answers to submitted questions will be emailed to all respondents by Wednesday, November 9, 2011.
Check out the three final artists' initial concepts for the Bill Russell Legacy Project. The artists were asked to create an interactive and site specific work, which recognizes Mr. Russell’s achievements on the court as well as in the community, especially regarding his dedication to mentoring programs.
Fern Cunningham with Stephen Stimson Associates
First Concept:
Bill Russell: Story of the Era, the Game, the Man, and the Mentor
Second Concept:
Bill Russell and His Team
Ann Hirsch with Pressley Associates
First Concept:
The Huddle
Second Concept:
The Plaza of Champions
Antionio Tobias Mendez with Oudens Ello Architecture
A Tribute to William Felton Russell
If you would like to share feedback to be taken into cosideration by the Bill Russell Legacy Project committee, please email art@publicartboston.com.
Friday, Sept. 22, 2011
FINALISTS SELECTED FOR POE BOSTON PUBLIC ART PROJECT
BOSTON (Sept. 16, 2011) – Mayor Thomas M. Menino and the Edgar Allan Poe Foundation of Boston, in conjunction with the Boston Art Commission, are pleased to announce the selection of three finalists in a competition to develop public artwork celebrating the Boston-born writer and his creative work.
The artists are Jennifer Bonner and her teammate architect Christian Stayner, both of Los Angeles; Ann Hirsch of Cambridge and her teammate Boston architect Robert Olson; and Stefanie Rocknak of Oneonta, New York.
The finalists were selected from a highly competitive pool of 265 artists from 42 states and 13 countries who submitted their qualifications for consideration. Working with the Edgar Allan Poe Foundation of Boston, the Boston Art Commission will oversee the installation of the public artwork in Edgar Allan Poe Square, the city-owned plaza located at the southeast corner of Boylston Street and Charles Street South between Park Square and Boston Common. "The high caliber of the artists selected as finalists signifies not only the commitment of the Poe Foundation to create an exceptional artwork for the City of Boston but also the excitement felt in Boston and beyond for Edgar Allan Poe and his work as an artistic subject," says Director, Karin Goodfellow on behalf of the Boston Art Commission.
The three finalists will each be awarded a $1,000 grant from the city’s Edward Ingersoll Browne Trust Fund to produce artwork design plans for public inspection and community comment that will take place at both open meetings and via online forums to be scheduled later this year.
Jennifer Bonner is a visiting professor at the Woodbury University School of Architecture in Los Angeles, and director of Studio Bonner, Office for Civic Architecture in L.A. She is a graduate of Auburn University and received her Master of Architecture from Harvard University Graduate School of Design. Bonner’s teammate, the architect Christian Stayner, is also a visiting professor at Woodbury with both undergraduate and graduate degrees from Harvard. Bonner’s website is http://jenniferbonner.com/.
Ann Hirsch is an adjunct professor of art at Lesley University’s Art Institute of Boston, who specializes in bronze figurative sculpture and has a studio in Somerville, Mass. She is a graduate of Barnard College and holds an M.F.A. from the New York Academy of Art. Hirsch’s teammate, Robert Olson, is a Harvard graduate who earned a masters in architecture from Yale. Hirsch’s website is http://www.annhirsch.com/projects/.
Stefanie Rocknak is an associate professor of philosophy at Hartwick College in Oneonta, New York, and a sculptor specializing in figurative wood sculpture who has shown her work nationally and internationally. She is a graduate of Colby College and holds a Ph.D. in philosophy from Boston University. Rocknak’s website is http://www.steffrocknak.net/.
For information about the Boston Art Commission, please visit: http://www.publicartboston.com/.
To learn more about the Edgar Allan Poe Foundation of Boston, go to http://www.poeboston.org/.
The Edgar Allan Poe Foundation of Boston, Inc., is a non-profit, 501(c)(3) corporation organized exclusively for the charitable educational purpose of honoring Poe in the city where he was born in 1809.
Mayor Thomas M. Menino, along with the Bill Russell Legacy Project Committee and the Boston Celtics Shamrock Foundation, excitedly announced today that Boston’s City Hall Plaza will be the official site of the Bill Russell Legacy Project. The Boston Art Commission would like to congratulate the three artists chosen as finalists: Artists Fern Cunningham, Ann Hirsch, and the collaborative team of Antonio Tobias Mendez and Oudens Ello Architecture. Over the next few months, they will develop concepts to celebrate the accomplishments and values of Celtic great Bill Russell, specifically Mr. Russell’s dedication to human rights and mentoring. In the fall, these three artists will submit their final proposals to the Committee and Mr. Russell, with the winning design to be permanently installed in Boston’s City Hall Plaza.
The work of Boston-based artist Fern Cunningham can be found throughout the city of Boston, from Mattapan's Rise: Gateway to Mattapan to the South End's Step on Board: Monument to Harriet Tubman. Ms.Cunningham earned a BFA from Boston University and has been active in the Boston public art scene since the beginning of her career. A teacher at the Park School, Ms. Cunningham also brings her experience as an educator to the project.
Ann Hirsch, a local artist and adjunct professor of art at Lesley University’s Art Institute of Boston, specializes in bronze figurative sculpture and has sculpted basketball figures such as Yao Ming, Jason Kidd, and Shawn Marion. Her work has been exhibited throughout the Northeast, specifically in New York and Massachusetts, and can be found in the collections of Vanderbilt University, Concordia College, and the Montauk Lighthouse Museum.
Antonio Tobias Mendez and Matt Oudens, of Oudens Ello Architecture, first collaborated on the Silver Spring Veterans Plaza and Memorial for Downtown Silver Spring Maryland. Tobias Mendez’s work includes the Thurgood Marshall Memorial, the Mohandas Gandhi Memorial, and The Teammates, which can be found at Boston’s Fenway Park. He has also been awarded Honorable Mention for his design for the National Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial. Boston-based Oudens Ello Architecture will work closely with Tobias Mendez in order to architecturally contextualize his proposed tribute to Bill Russell.
For more information about the artists, visit their websites at: www.cunninghamsculpture.com, www.annhirsch.com/projects, www.tobymendezstudios.com, and www.oudensello.com.
Photo above: Members of the Bill Russell Legacy Project Committee and the artists: Stuart Layne, artist Ann Hirsch, artist Fern Cunningham, Bobby Sager, Mayor Thomas Menino, Charlie Titus, Steve Pagliuca, artist Antonio Tobias Mendez - Photo © DONALD A. HARNEY
"Reach," by artist Douglas Kornfeld, will be dedicated in a public ceremony at 4:30pm, on May 25th in Mozart Park in Jamaica Plain. Join The Hyde Square Task Force for the unveiling of the new sculpture in Mozart Park to celebrate the history and culture of immigrants in Jamaica Plain.
The abstract sculpture, which forms a hand stretched upward when viewed from the central axis of the park, symbolizes the immigrant experience of reaching up to climb the ladder of success in America.
The Bill Russell Legacy Committee, formed at the initiative of Mayor Thomas M. Menino, the Boston Celtics, and friends of Bill Russell, seeks qualifications from artists to create permanent public art in the City of Boston to honor and celebrate the life and myriad contributions of Mr. Russell.
Read more here!
Please join Mayor Thomas M. Menino next Monday, April 25 at 11:30am for the dedication of LandWave, a public artwork designed by the Gillies-Smith/Kilkelly/Cormier artist team that marks the historic neck to the Shawmut Peninsula, on Washington Street by East Berkeley Street in the South End.
The site in Boston’s South End—a linear strip of land between the Peters Park baseball field and the Washington Street sidewalk next to Project Place—follows the historic edge of the Neck, the narrow isthmus that once connected the Shawmut Peninsula (now downtown Boston) to the mainland.
That long narrow strip of land properly called “The Neck” … stretched away like a ribbon of varying width to the main land. Vastly different, however, to its present aspect was its condition in those early days when the road which traversed it was well-nigh impassable in the spring, when the horses waded knee-deep in water at full tides, when the only timber upon the whole peninsula grew upon the Neck, and the marshes on either hand were the favorite hunting-ground of the sportsman.
The Memorial History of Boston, 1630-1880
Today, the intersection of Washington and East Berkeley Streets is the gateway of a diverse community including the indigent guests of the Pine Street Inn, working class residents of subsidized and affordable housing, artists, and affluent professionals and retirees. The neighborhood has strong tradition of ethnic and economic diversity.
The site is owned by the City of Boston and operated by the Department of Parks and Recreation, which endorses and is actively collaborating with this project. On February 23, 2006 Antonia Pollak wrote, “The Commissioners support your visionary efforts to commemorate the historic gateway to the City of Boston, hearkening back to Colonial days.”