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ey Value 1

The world of public arts and its funding source has always been an enigma. Public art has been in the background for most of my design career. This article provided me with a lot of information to understand the nuances involved with public art starting with its shift into “social issue art”

The funding crossing over from public art to social issue art is interesting to think about. Hearing about the issue of “parachute” artists makes this decision seem more warranted. 

Key Value 2 

Bourdieu’s essay excerpt covering the complications of proper representation of a community through a delegate has me left questioning how one even knows who the delegate is truly representing. With the process involved of selecting the delegate, my question is how does the design process work when the political entity that selects the delegate does not accept the work that is supposed to represent the community?

Key Value 3 

Dawn Dedaux’s Soul Shadows & Urban Warriors stuck out to me from the aspect of a lighting designer. After looking at the photos of Soul Shadows, I was drawn to do further research on the project and some of the original interview notes taken on some of the inmates that are talked about in this weeks reading. 

Question 1

How does the design process work when the political entity that selects the delegate does not accept that work when the work represents the community?

Question 2

When researching more about Mary Jane Jacobs and the community art that was done in Chicago, I was surprised to see that Crown Fountain was not considered a community installation. Why does a project that may seem to be a community based project not start with considering a community based project?

Question 3


Why is community art considered “bad and lesser” by the rest of the art community?

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