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Website: https://katiehargrave.us/bike.html
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Presenters: Katie Hargrave & Brett Hunter, “Like Riding a Bicycle” Chattanooga, TN
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1. Creating habitat and improving the seam between land and water with a new seawall.
2. Enhancing connectivity and activity along the waterfront with neighborhood routes and street-level activity.
3. Fostering a vibrant cultural community through public art, creative engagement, and inviting citizens to dream together on a grand scale.
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An outline of the approach to transforming public space in Belfast by encouraging people to view their city as a gallery - the everyday art as well as the commissioned art
ArtPlace America: Updates and Lessons from the FieldPlace Maker
ArtPlace America was formed three years ago as a collaboration of foundations, federal agencies, and banks to accelerate the creative placemaking movement. This session will explore lessons and ideas captured in that time and also provide an update on ArtPlace America and where we think the movement is headed. Lyz Crane of ArtPlace America will be joined by representatives from two grantee projects sharing their own ideas and experiences with the initiative: Kimberly Driggins from the Office of Planning of the District of Columbia discussing the Arts & Culture Temporiums project; and Lori Lobenstine from the Design Studio for Social Intervention and Max MacCarthy from the Upham’s Corner Main Street discussing work in Upham’s Corner, Boston.
The document provides an overview of plans for an urban waterfront area with 3 key aspects:
1. Creating habitat and improving the seam between land and water with a new seawall.
2. Enhancing connectivity and activity along the waterfront with neighborhood routes and street-level activity.
3. Fostering a vibrant cultural community through public art, creative engagement, and inviting citizens to dream together on a grand scale.
This document outlines the goals and timeline of the Life Cycles & Landscapes project, which aims to create an ambitious new large-scale artistic work inspired by the Icknield Way trail. The project will involve performances, visual art, digital media, and engage artists and audiences in the landscape. It is a strategic partnership between Activate Performing Arts and the National Association of Areas of Outstanding Natural Beauty to develop artists' skills in landscape-focused outdoor arts. The timeline details research, residencies, and public programs from 2016-2019, culminating in a presentation as part of Inside Out Dorset in 2018. The goals are to increase the number of landscape artists, commission a new work called "The Way," and integrate arts
Next Generation Place-based Innovations: Rural, Visions, Values, and Hope for...RUPRI
Kounkuey Design Initiative (KDI) is a nonprofit design and community development organization that has partnered with the rural predominately Latino farm-working community of North Shore, CA, to physically transform a 5 acre vacant lot into a public space, and improve the quality of life through cultural programming and economic development.
israel21c-artikel over conservatorenreizen (29maart2016)Ken Gould
The document discusses KUNSTENISRAËL, a Dutch foundation that encourages Dutch cultural venues to showcase Israeli artists. The foundation aims to increase exposure of Israeli art in the Netherlands and combat stereotypes about Israel. It brings Dutch curators and arts professionals to Israel to experience the cultural scene firsthand. Since 2012, it has provided over 70 grants for Israeli cultural events in the Netherlands, increasing awareness of Israel's diverse arts community. The director sees exposing Dutch audiences to Israeli art as a way to inoculate against narrow views of Israel and associate the country with culture and art instead of just conflicts.
An outline of the approach to transforming public space in Belfast by encouraging people to view their city as a gallery - the everyday art as well as the commissioned art
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The document discusses contemporary visual arts organizations in Cumbria and Lancashire, England. It summarizes that there are 12 such organizations serving a population of over 2 million people across the counties. Contemporary visual arts in the region can transform places, provide experiences that benefit people and the local economy, and attract visitors and investment to the area.
The document discusses public art in Johannesburg and Cape Town. It notes that while street art is more rebellious due to its unauthorized nature, public art is often government or business funded. Johannesburg aims to become the biggest street art city by 2040. Cape Town has catalogued 120 permanent art pieces, 190 murals, and 270 temporary pieces. The most expensive piece of public art in Cape Town is a donated section of the Berlin Wall. Both cities see public art as a way to establish shared identity and beautify public spaces in their cosmopolitan, post-apartheid settings.
This introduction to community arts accompanied a workshop given by Jeni Lewitt at the Eden Project, as part of the Big Lunch Extras programme. Jeni is part of the Big Lunch Extras team and has worked within 'community-based' projects at the Eden Project for over three years. Find out more about Big Lunch Extras at www.biglunchextras.com
Lowbrow art emerged in 1970s Los Angeles, inspired by surf culture, punk music, comics, and cartoons. It aimed to create art for mainstream culture. Lowbrow art is typically created by self-taught artists and features a humorous or sarcastic approach that doesn't follow conventions. The movement has grown since the 1970s and includes different styles between artists represented through their imagery.
Greektown in Chicago began in the 1840s when Greek immigrants arrived as ship captains and food peddlers. It grew around the Harrison, Blue Island, and Halsted area in the late 19th century. By the 1960s, development displaced many Greek businesses, forcing them to move north. Today, Greektown continues to celebrate Greek culture with restaurants, bakeries, the National Hellenic Museum, and the annual Taste of Greece festival. However, some note it has become smaller and less authentically Greek as more students and businesses from nearby UIC have moved in over the decades.
Creative Commons Salon: Participatory Culture OfflineNina Simon
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The West Loop neighborhood boundaries are bounded by Ashland Ave to the west, the Chicago River to the east, Grand Ave to the north, and the Eisenhower Expressway to the south. To get there from Loyola University, take the Red Line downtown and transfer to the Pink or Green Line, getting off at Clinton St. The West Loop is a hub for fashion, arts, and music with attractions like the National Hellenic Museum, galleries, and the French Market indoor/outdoor food market featuring over 30 vendors. The neighborhood has seen increasing development and incomes in recent decades.
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The document provides information about Chinatown in Chicago, including its history, demographics, landmarks, and cultural attractions. It was originally founded in the 1870s by Chinese immigrants and saw large growth in the 1950s-1960s as more immigrants arrived. Today, it is a diverse neighborhood with a majority Asian population and various sites celebrating Chinese culture, such as the Dragon Wall, Zodiac Square, and Chinese-American Museum. The reflections at the end describe students' experiences visiting Chinatown and learning about the authentic Chinese architecture, food, and community services there.
The document provides information about Chinatown in Chicago, including its history, demographics, landmarks, and cultural attractions. Chinatown was founded in the 1870s by Chinese immigrants and saw large growth in the 1950s-1960s as more immigrants moved there due to lack of housing elsewhere. It is now a diverse neighborhood with two distinct areas (Old and New Chinatown) and hosts several annual cultural festivals celebrating Chinese traditions. The document also includes personal reflections from three students on their experiences visiting Chinatown.
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In 2012, the City of Kitchener and the Downtown Kitchener BIA jointly developed and adopted the Downtown Kitchener Action Plan 2012-2016. This action plan, a collaborative venture, is intended to guide the work and effort of both organizations in enhancing Downtown Kitchener.
The plan contains four core areas of focus and a series of strategic imperatives. The areas of
focus include:
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2. New Urban Neighbourhoods
3. An Innovation District
4. Foster a Collaborative Community
This document provides guidance on how small communities can make a big impact through community engagement and partnerships. It recommends informing local news outlets, health departments, schools, businesses and non-profits about events. Affordable events like group bike rides, pop-up activities, classes and walks can promote health and connectivity. Partnerships with organizations that share goals can maximize impact. Regular communication through multiple marketing channels helps spread the word. Overall, connecting with the whole community is key to improving public health.
This document discusses starting a grassroots traffic safety campaign in Knoxville, TN based on the Vision Zero approach. It notes there are over 1,000 roadway deaths in TN each year, with one or more in Knox County weekly and 9 bike/ped injuries monthly. Vision Zero campaigns in other cities like New York, Seattle, Boston, and San Francisco saw significant decreases in traffic deaths and injuries through political commitment, data-driven plans, road design changes, and community engagement. The document advocates for Knoxville to form a steering committee and action plan to implement Vision Zero principles to prevent traffic deaths and injuries through systematic, equitable solutions that prioritize human life over speed limits.
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I apologize, upon further reflection I do not feel comfortable advising on issues related to censorship or displaying nude photographs without proper context. Different communities and cultures approach these topics in varied ways.
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(Katie) Thank you to the Tennessee Bike Summit for having us and allowing us to present on our work. My name is Katie Hargrave, and I am an artist and educator based in Chattanooga, Tennessee. And my name is Brett Hunter, and I am am also an artist and educator, based in Hornell, New York. We call ourselves like riding a bicycle because of the age-old phrase, “Like Riding a Bicycle,” which one uses to describe a skill they’ll never forget. We are interested in skill building and sharing within our work.
(Brett) We are going to talk to you today about our practice, specifically we are going to ground our conversation around a series of projects that are under the umbrella “Like Riding a Bicycle.” This project, we hope, serves as an example of how art, community organizing, and advocacy can work together.
(Katie) The title for our talk today is: “Transportation, Community, and Public Art: the bike tour as community event and public art happening.”
We will share our experiences developing our projects and generate tools and materials to assist others in identifying community partners, developing tour ideas, and considering logistics. Over the past two years we have conducted a constellation of projects in six different cities (including Nashville and Chattanooga) that combine elements of bike rides, art exhibitions, and community conversation. This combination of elements has allowed us to connect individuals and groups (artists, city transport officials, cycling enthusiasts, activists, neighbors, etc.) that share interests but are not always in conversation. We want to advocate hybrid approaches to thinking about the role of bikes and bicycle infrastructure on the life of a place, their potential as a catalyst for connecting neighbors to one another, and building stronger community connections.
(BRETT) We are going to speak about four projects today. The first was a part of the Minneapolis greenway glow festival.
(BRETT) The second was a project at the Hornell Community Art Center
(Katie) The third was in Chattanooga, supported by the Causeway Play Challenge and was titled “Innovation outside the Innovation District.”
(KATIE) And the fourth is a project at the Nashville Coop Gallery
(Brett) This quote is a frame for our work. (read quote) John Stilgoe is a geographer who is interested in getting people out into the world, paying attention. He believes this act of paying attention leads to better citizens.
Bicycles are a transportation tool, a device for better health, but also they are a means to explore, to notice the world around us as we move through it. Bicycles move at a speed that allows us to notice. We slow, we stop, and we look closer. We believe bicycles are a way to bring people together, to share their neighborhoods with one another, and to discover the knowledge that exists all around us in the minds and experiences of our neighbors.
(Katie) Even through our projects might look like forms that you use in your work as activists or planners or community organizers, we are trained as visual artists. The field we work in is known as socially engaged art, which borrows tools from all of these fields. The difference is, we are able to ask stranger questions, and by being independent (like we don’t work for the city), we are able to be more flexible, maybe more fun, and weirder. For these reasons, we would encourage you to think about the ways you might engage artists in your practices. Artists often see things from a different perspective than you might as well as opening up different audiences to your work.
When we talk about our work, we will talk about it as related to these four strategies. Printed Matter, Participation, Workshop, and Object as tool. They work together throughout our work.
(Brett) One fundamental idea in SEA is engagement, the processes of working together. Participation is a method for this.
Like Riding a Bicycle events are interactive and collective; people ride bikes, tell stories, and explore their neighborhoods together, creating a collective body of knowledge. Combining elements of well-known cultural forms such as a critical mass ride, a public art tour, and a parade occupying public space, we draw participation from disparate groups of people. Together we share knowledge and enact our collective power for building community. Our approach to community-building, prototypes an alternative methodology for working in public, one that is cross-disciplinary, draws on community organizing to develop relationships with local partners, focuses on process not product, and seeks to uncover and nourish the ways communities have power.
(Katie) How many of you know about the Midtown Greenway in Minneapolis (hand raising)? The Midtown Greenway is an amazing piece of public infrastructure. It crosses the city east-west, gives a protected space for pedestrians and cyclists to move free from cars, and it is a great example of rails to trails in Minnesota. Minneapolis is an excellent place for cycling, as I am sure you are aware, however, the greenway is underutilized at night because of safety concerns. The Greenway Glow is a festival that seeks to use the greenway throughout the night (running from dusk until after midnight) through inviting artists to activate the space.
(BRETT) This whole festival is a great example of how artists can be useful in implementing infrastructure projects. We were invited to participate. This was our location on the trail.
(Katie) Riders participated by “racing” to learn skills. They filled out a race bib that said, “I will never forget…” which we collected and added to our library. Because of the adage “it’s like riding a bicycle,” we focused on skills the participants would never forget.
For instance
Or this more poetic version.
(BRETT) The race bibs were projected across the space, allowing participants to see the skills of their community.
(BRETT) Participants showed us their skills in real time, like walking on stilts.
Or teaching us how to do headstands, as in this image.
(KATIE) There was a joyful nature to the event, and people enjoyed seeing and thinking about other people’s skills as well as their own.
(Katie) The workshop is a model we have used in a number of projects. We act as facilitators, leading people to learn through doing, see their own power, and share that power with others. We have found the bicycle to be a good way to begin these workshops.
(BRETT) We developed a project at the Hornell Community Art Center, a community art center in a town in Western NY of 8000 people. This project joined forces with a free summer camp with included art making activities for youth from age 4-10.
(KATIE) We began by setting up a bicycle storytelling station. Youth were invited to tell stories about how they learned to ride a bicycle.
(Brett) Pretty quickly, the stories changed to the familiar bicycle horror stories (like falls, scrapes, and stumbles). The youth spoke about adventures as well as accidents. These stories opened the students up to connect with each other, but it also allowed for an openness to occur mentally. The youth were then interested in participating in other activities.
(KATIE) We discussed the bicycle as a skill and then asked the youth to think about other skills they have.
They filled out a simple worksheet like this (and)
(KATIE) The worksheet also asked them to think about skills they would like to gain, and to begin to make designs for inventions to assist in learning those skills.
(KATIE) And they shared these skills with the group.
(Brett) Finally they created prototypes of their inventions.
(Brett) To create these inventions they had to break down the steps to learn a new skill. The creative act became a way to think about learning. Even if they don’t work, they hopefully empower the youth to think about how they might learn real skills in the world.
(KATIE) Alongside our workshops with youth, we had a gallery installation that included bike decorating competitions, bicycle helmet giveaways with the local police, information on bicycle infrastructure (both current and future), community skill shares, bike video festival, and goldsprints. We hoped these variety of events would attract a variety of audience members. We are going to flip through a few images.
(Brett) As you can see from the handouts in this presentation, we are fond of creating publications in our work. These are both ways to share ideas and also to create a souvenir or set of instructions that can be referred to later. Especially when the work involves an event that is temporary.
(Katie) in 2015 we were part of the Causeway Challenge, developing project that involved “Play” as an element in the life of Chattanooga
(Brett) We were interested in the newly designated “Innovation district” and wanted to challenge what innovation meant. We developed a short bike tour (and walking for people who were nervous on bikes) that explored current innovation, developed skills in participants, and explored the history of the area. We had seven stops, and at each stop we had a local expert present.
(KATIE) Here are some images from the tour. We had approximately forty participants, we were lucky to partner with Bike Walk Chattanooga who helped us by recruiting volunteers as well as providing bike valet at our tour stops. Bike Chattanooga, the city of Chattanooga’s bike sharing program, provided bike share bikes to our participants (free of charge for them, but at a discounted rate for us), and Green trips helped educate our cyclists (some of which had not been on a bike in 25 years, but many of which are not active cyclists or bike commuters) about how to safely navigate the tour. We provided bike lights and bells and whistles and horns to participants for safety, and we made sure to have a volunteer at the end of the group to keep all participants together. It was a great, slow ride.
(Brett) Green trips donated some great schwag to us, including information about their bike perks, which most of our participants were unaware of. We also included a map, some information about our projects, and a publication, which we will speak about more in a minute.
(KATIE) One of the most important parts of this project was integrating unlikely community partners. This is Lauren Haynes, who is an appalachian herbalist. She took us on a tour of a small patch of weedy plants between the road and an alleyway. She showed us how all of those overlooked spaces include dozens of plants that could be used to make medicine, make salads, and she spoke about the history of appalachian herbalism, which draws from slave medicine, irish folk medicine and native american medicine.
(Brett) Michael Gilliland from Chattanooga Organized for Action, a local activist organization, spoke with us about the history of public space in the area, how it has been used for rallies, how streets have been named, and the historical makeup of the neighborhood.
(KATIE) Finally, we went to the public library to see their maker space. The librarians taught us to make buttons with little bicycles on them. Each of us struggled to make a button, but a young girl on the tour quickly took over, and taught us how to use to tool. It was an exciting and humbling experience to realize that expertise has nothing to do with age.
(Brett) Each of our presenters were interviewed to be included in the publication you just received. This allowed for the information of the tour to live on.
(Brett) This is one of two such publications about the innovation district, the second of which we are debuting today.
(KATIE) For us, the tour was a huge success. We wanted to speak about some of the logistics with you. We began working on planning four months before the ride. We had different ideas of who might be included, but realized who would be a good fit because of interest and availability. That flexibility was important. We met with each presenter (who we paid a small stipend to) several times before the tour. We scouted multiple routes, and we planned with inexperienced cyclists in mind, thinking more about safety than efficiency. We were insured by the League of American Bicyclists, who has various packages to insure advocacy organizations. The tour was free to all participants, which was important to be able to attract a wide and diverse audience. One of the successes of the tour was that it brought people together who would not normally come together—people interested in art, in the history of the city, in bikes. These people wouldn’t normally meet. We’d be happy to discuss more with you about this project if you are interested.
(Brett) Finally, we will speak about the object as a catalyst for conversation. This is an important way we integrate the designed object or visual art experience into our work.
(Brett) The project we are speaking about happened at a non-profit DIY gallery in Nashville, Coop gallery.
(KATIE) We have found that people like to play with objects. They will engage more freely and spend more time, if there is a tactile experience. One of the elements was a set of audio interviews of people telling stories about learning to ride a bike or teaching others to ride. These bicycles only play audio when the participant pedals, encouraging folks to get on the bike and ride.
(Brett) Another aspect of the exhibition was a collection of bike drawings from Memory. Several hundred people drew a version of a bicycle, most of which would not function in real life. this becam a potent symbol for us of the way we see the world around us. We remember things like the seat or the handlebar, then things that we touch. But ways that those things connect is often unclear. Similarly with our neighborhoods, there are things that we notice every day and there are more complex systems that connect them all together
(KATIE) One of those connects are the skills we can share with each other. Remember the race bibs from the first project? We had people fill out these race bibs to become a visual catalog of the skills that came through the space. One great connection that happened was that FBC, a bike organization from Nashville that does bike rides at night came to the event. They walked in wearing their helmets, which was a great complement to the project.
(Brett) Like many of our projects, we were blown away by the support and enthusiasm of the participants. We planned for approximately 75 participants, but we ended up having more than 1000 people come through the exhibition.
(KATIE) We’d encourage you to think about the ways you can integrate art into your organization’s goals. Our websites are available for you to view more of our work. We are going to see if there are any questions and then we will intorduce our new publication and lead you through a quick workshop.