Elisa H. Hamilton reflects on her inspiration for and experience during Slideshow, her October 2017 project with N+T and HUBWeek.
Our faces, our places
Art by numbers - 2017 in review
Rebuilding a Public Art City
Accelerating. Together.
Twice as Nice - $10,000 Matching Challenge!
OUR 2017 GRATITUDE LIST
Accelerating careers. Funding new works in 2018.
Public Art is About Learning in Public
Making public art has its own unique qualities. The creative process is vulnerable as people can comment and judge before the work is finished. And yet, its very openness at this delicate stage is, in turn, more dynamic in that it constantly sparks interactions with local inhabitants.
Four months after the inaugural celebration of the mural See Her, artist Ann Lewis and Kate Gilbert, to debrief with Martina Tanga about the successes and stumbling blocks of the project.
Table Talk
I’d like to talk about what happened at Slideshow when the projector wasn’t rolling. About the physical slides themselves, the light table, the loupes, the experience of looking through someone else’s eyes, and the power of a public art object to spark connection and elicit a sense of shared vulnerability between strangers.