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Alley Art Festival was created to reinvent urban spaces with art and is part of an ongoing effort to enhance walkability between the Historic 4th and the Historic Pearl districts in Sioux City, IA. Alley Art Festival is a street art festival that provides local artists with a platform to show their skills by creating …
The Steel Yard is a non-profit industrial art center and shared studio located in Providence, RI. We’re an arts maker space and non-traditional craft school offering courses & educational programs in blacksmithing, welding, jewelry, foundry, and ceramics for everyone. Our public projects department works with communities of all sizes to design and fabricate functional, design-driven …
Richard Harrison founded the mural company in 1999 and it has since grown to include the work of over a dozen artists. Their work began with private commissions, schools, churches, and nursing homes and has grown into the public art sphere with their South Omaha Mural Project. The project is an initiative to create community …
Amanda Larson facilitates community involvement in the physical production of permanent large-scale sculptures, murals, and functional art pieces for public spaces using mediums of paint, clay, mosaic, cement, glass and metal. She graduated with her Masters in Fine Art, specializing in Social Practice and Community Art from California College of the Arts in 2019. She …
Amber Hansen is a muralist, visual artist and filmmaker who creates socially engaged and community-based artwork. Hansen’s work is a dialogue between her formal education and her rural upbringing. She promotes creative engagement for all ages while raising questions about the ethics of animal welfare and our relationship with food. Hansen is the co-director & …
Dave is a muralist, writer, and printmaker from Lawrence, Kansas. His celebrated community-based murals are found across the United States and abroad. His prints, which focus on current social issues, are in the collections of the Museum of Modern Art, and the Center for the Study of Political Graphics. Dave is co-author of Kansas Murals: …
Susan Cervantes, Founding Director of Precita Eyes Muralists, is responsible for over 500 collaborative murals over four decades. Precita Eyes strives to empower communities and reflect their hopes and dreams. They use a community process where participants are given the opportunity to create their own mural. We work throughout the Bay Area and beyond in schools, community centers, health centers, and parks. Precita …
John Pitman Weber is an active public artist with decades of experience in mosaics, cement reliefs, carved brick, painted murals, and useable sculpture for outdoor spaces. He has led large work in Los Angeles, New York City, Spencer IA, Broward County, FL and recently in Vitoria-Gasteiz, Spain. His projects are in schools, on playgrounds and …
For 27 years, Pomegranate Center has empowered neighbors to come together to design and build gathering spaces. Pomegranate Center’s unique style of community building combines a creative approach with effective community planning, broad public participation, hands-on learning and leadership development. Recognized for its success in transforming and connecting communities, Pomegranate Center now shares this work …
Laurel True is a public artist and educator specializing in sculptural, architectural and site-specific mosaic projects for almost 25 years. Laurel teaches and lectures internationally and facilitates community-based projects through her organization, The Global Mosaic Project. The Global Mosaic Project partners with organizations, schools and businesses to develop unique participatory projects, designed and implemented through …
Nancy Striniste, founder of EarlySpace, is a landscape designer and former teacher. She has been designing earth-friendly, people-friendly natural play and learning spaces for children since the mid-80’s. Her palette includes stone, wood, water and plants. Projects begin with a community charette where participants learn about the value of reconnecting children to nature and collaborate to create …
Annemarie Zwack is a visual artist who works with communities, using a variety of materials to create public art that expresses a sense of place, identity, and collective values. She facilitates the use of paint, clay, tiles, fabric, paper, and recycled materials of all sorts. She has specialized in Arts in Education since 2003; using art as …
Colette Crutcher works solo and collaboratively, most often with Irish ceramicist Aileen Barr or her husband Mark Roller, on public art installations including mosaics, murals, and paper mache sculptures for parades, concerts and demonstrations. Her Bay Area public works include Tonantsin Renace, 16th Ave Tiled Steps, 24th St. Minipark, Ping Yuen Housing Project, Chinatown Rec. Center, Cesar Chavez Park, (Oakland,) …
Parkitects works closely with communities to custom design play environments that meet their needs for budget, accessibility, supervision, and age appropriateness. Parkitects’ President and Landscape Architect, Steve Lauzun, is a founding member of the CBA and specializes in inclusive and participatory design. As a Landscape Architect lead company, Parkitects also specializes in integrating play equipment …
Artist Lynn Takata creates mosaics, sculpture and murals with children, families and neighborhoods to build tangible symbols of community pride. She has created over 300 public artworks with concrete, tile, glass, ceramic and paint involving hundreds of participants. Participants create their own designs and she choreographs these elements as the design develops. It is a …
Mark Lakeman is the co-founder of The City Repair Project and the principal of Communitecture, a community architecture and planning firm. He is an urban place-maker and permaculture designer, community design facilitator, and an inspiring catalyst to the emergence of sustainable and participatoryecological and cultural landscapes. Mark’s leadership has benefited communities across North America. With City Repair, in …
Jeff Mather is a community-based public artist & environmental sculptor & teaching artist based in Atlanta. He is a lead artist, co-founder, and board president for the Atlanta Partnership for Arts in Learning. He coaches the designing and building of large-scale architectural sculptures. He is a member of Alternate ROOTS and several of his community-based …
Bond Anderson of Sound Play, Inc. works with schools, communities and organizations to design and build outdoor musical instruments for parks and playgrounds. We can work with volunteers on site or provide completed instruments for your community built project. Our first musical playground was built in collaboration with elementary school students in 1982; now, more …
Play by Design Co-founders Lee Archin and Dave Iannello, both are talented designers and community organizers who began the company based on their vision and passion for design and quality construction. Designer John Dean, who was with us from the outset, is joined on the design team by Dennis Wille and Lisa Deshano. Our core …
Donna Billick is an artist and community builder. Donna is director of Billick Rock Art, in Davis California, and Todos Artes, located in Baja Mexico. Also co-director of the University of California Davis Art/Science Fusion program along with Diane Ullman. The mediums used to create art and community build large scale public art works are, …
Tom Arie Donch, president, has orchestrated hundreds of projects in twenty states over thirty years. With a passion for learning and sharing the ingredients of successful community built events he has collaborated with over fifty community built association members and firms. His work has included parks, playgrounds, public sculpture, murals, nature trails, skateboard parks, school …
Since 1971, Leathers & Associates has been on hand to celebrate the opening of more than 3,000 playgrounds in all 50 states and 7 countries. We specialize in custom-designed play spaces that are a reflection of children’s imaginations and the product of collective energy and creativity of the entire community. Our mission is to create …
How do you suspend 12 oversized weather balloons from an occupational therapy room ceiling in a school for special needs kids? The usual answer is you can’t. That’s because architects of most children’s learning and play facilities don’t ask questions like that. SCHOOLWORKS, designers and builders of childrens’ places since 1971, understands that kids and …
Caryl Yasko has been a leading figure in the American Public Art Movement for more than forty years. She is well published internationally. She was a founding artist in the Chicago Mural Group and taught mural techniques at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago and many colleges and universities, mostly in the Midwest. …
Lauren Elder collaborates with community groups and schools to create unique gardens, pocket parks, recreational areas and small structures in both Northern California and various countries in Latin America. As a bi-lingual artist/designer, she enjoys working with Spanish-speaking communities and furthering cross-cultural understanding. Several projects have been published in “Asphalt to Ecosystems” by Sharon Danks …
Our mission is to build community through creative projects. We collaborate with schools, libraries, community centers, municipalities and military facilities. Our projects include infrastructure (bridges, benches, maps, signs, gardens, trails, etc), public art (mosaics, concrete, ceramic murals, stained glass, metal, etc), and all kinds of fun experiences (puppets, parades, festivals, etc). We work with you …
Niki Glen and Helen Helwig direct large-scale public art pieces. Their work has been published in “Public Art: A World’s Eye View”. They have directed over 100 murals and specialize in community participation and involvement. “Public art belongs to everyone.” Their work graces walls of schools, libraries, botanical gardens, hospitals, and office buildings around the …
