PUBLIC ART PROGRAMS

The Gallery Outside: Acquisition or Exhibition?
Moderated by Dale Lanzone, President, International Public Art Marlborough Date: Thursday, July 22, 7:30 p.m. Location: Greater Reston Arts Center, 12001 Market Street, Suite 103, Reston, VA 20190 Free event

This panel discussion is presented as part of the juried exhibition gaps cosponsored by the Greater Reston Arts Center, Initiative for Public Art – Reston, and The Washington Sculptors Group.

Dale Lanzone will moderate the evening’s discussion on the use of public spaces for temporary art exhibitions, in his words, "taking the museum out of doors."  To name just a few, cities such as New York, Chicago, San Francisco, Paris, Rome, Venice, and Madrid, support ongoing programs that both promote and sponsor temporary art exhibitions in public places.  Panelists will discuss the ways, means, and benefits of such exhibitions and what this might mean to the local art scene in Northern Virginia.

Panelists include:

Susan Harrison, Manager, Art in Architecture Program, United States General Services Administration

Welmoed Laanstra, independent curator, co-curator of Street Scene www.streetscenesdc.com, and Public Art Projects Curator for Arlington County, Virginia http://www.arlingtonarts.org/cultural-affairs/public-art-in-arlington/about-public-art.aspx

 

Mike Shaffer, painter, sculptor, and conceptual artist. He is president of the Washington Sculptors Group and board chairman of the Hyattstown Mill Arts Project, a nonprofit arts and cultural center in Montgomery County Maryland. http://mikeshaffer.net/

Dale Martin Lanzone is currently the president of International Public Art Marlborough, one of the world’s leading contemporary art galleries. Over the past 12 years, Mr. Lanzone has developed and managed many large-scale, commissioned public art projects with a wide range of artists. http://oneartworld.com/Marlborough.html

gaps is an indoor/outdoor sculpture exhibition juried by Vesela Sretenovic, Curator of Modern and Contemporary Art at The Phillips Collection, and features twenty-three artists from the mid-Atlantic region and beyond. http://www.restonarts.org/Exhibitions/Current.htm