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City hosts symposium on public art re-examined
The City of Austin’s Art in Public Places Program welcomes Robert Hammond, Co-Founder and Executive Director of the High Line — New York City’s award-winning “aerial greenway” urban redevelopment project —and High Line public art curator Lauren Ross to Austin as keynote speakers for an all-day symposium on public art entitled ‘Blurring the Lines: Public Art Re-Examined’
WHEN: 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. Sept. 11.
WHERE: Ballet Austin’s Butler Dance Education Center, 501 W. Third St.
TIX: $15 and includes lunch and free parking
Register at www.cityofaustin.org/nextlevel
The High Line is a public park built on a 1.45-mile-long elevated rail structure running from Gansevoort Street to 34th Street on Manhattan’s West Side. From 1934 to 1980 it was a rail freight line connecting warehouses on the West Side to incoming rail lines around Penn Station. After the High Line was threatened with demolition in 1999, fans of the elevated monument to New York’s industrial history organized to preserve it. The first section of the High Line opened last year and features landscape plantings, viewing platforms, a sundeck (with lounge chairs) and other gathering spaces.
The symposium will feature:
Keynote address by High Line co-founder and the public art curator
Pecha Kucha presentations by local creatives
Interactive panel discussion with experienced public artists and administrators
Networking opportunities and access to industry experts
Roundtable lunch (provided)
Take-home materials such as the “Public Art Resource Guide”
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