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- Rebecca Banyas
- Ricardo D. Barreto
- Jackie Brookner
- Kristen Law Calhoon
- Elizabeth Connor
- Eloise Damrosch
- Liesel Fenner
- Jean Pasteur Greer
- Rex Gulbranson
- David Hoyt Johnson
- Peggy Kendellen
- Larry Kirkland
- Sheila Klein
- Robert Kreuger
- Cheryll Leo-Gwin
- Sheila Levrant de Bretteville
- Barbara Luecke
- Amy McBride
- Jim McDonald
- Linda Oestreich
- Marc Pally
- Kevin L. Patterson
- Patricia C. Phillips
- Renee Piechocki
- Mary Priester
- Tad Savinar
- Henry M. Sayre
- Harriet F. Senie
- Julie Silliman
- Buster Simpson
- Susan Leibovitz Steinman
- Sarah B. Smith
- Karen Spahn
- Alexandra Stone
Rebecca Banyas
Consultant Rebecca Banyas provides a full range of services in public art, with specialization in public art planning for transit and large municipal infrastructure projects. She is a national leader in establishing strong community partnerships and integrating artworks into architecture and landscaping, and has developed public art programs in Denver, Minneapolis, Cincinnati, Bremerton (Washington), and Portland (Oregon).
Ricardo D. Barreto
Ricardo Barreto is the director of the UrbanArts Institute at the Massachusetts College of Art, which he joined in early 2000. From 1994 to 2000, he worked for the Massachusetts Cultural Council where he was initially program coordinator for individual artists and then program officer for organizations. He has a long track record of managing art projects such as Agnes Denes’s Wheatfield built on two acres of landfill for the World Trade Center in Manhattan, and as a curator of many shows in the United States, Mexico, and Europe.
Jackie Brookner
Jackie Brookner is an ecological artist who works collaboratively with ecologists, landscape architects, policymakers, and community groups on water remediation/public art projects in the United States and abroad. Current projects are near Dresden, Germany, in St. Louis, Cincinnati, New York City, Tillamook (Oregon), Caldwell (Idaho), and Puyallup (Washington).
Kristen Law Calhoun
Kristin Calhoun has been managing public art projects in Portland, Oregon, for over 15 years. Most recently, her work has focused on libraries, youth facilities, and a large correctional facility. Temporary public art is a passion for her, having founded the in situ PORTLAND program for the Regional Arts & Culture Council.
Elizabeth Connor
Elizabeth Conner is fascinated by the natural and working histories of public places. Her work is site-specific and collaborative; materials and methods vary. Projects include a police precinct, a stormwater treatment facility, a library, and a Superfund cleanup site.
Eloise Damrosch
As director of public art and advocacy for the Regional Arts & Culture Council, Eloise Damrosch has managed a wide range of projects for city and county bureaus, worked with private developers to integrate public art into their properties, and assisted other agencies in the region and across the country in developing new public art programs. She has consulted on public art projects in Chattanooga, Idaho, Little Rock, Salt Lake City, Lake Oswego, Memphis, Orlando, Richland, Tempe, Seattle, and Phoenix. She served eight years on the Oregon Arts Commission, three as chair, and on the Architecture Foundation of Oregon board for four years.
Liesel Fenner
Liesel Fenner is a program manager at the New England Foundation for the Arts in Boston, where she manages public art and site-based programs serving individual artists and organizations, locally, regionally, and nationally. She is a landscape architect and formerly administered a public art program for the California Department of Transportation in San Francisco.
Jean Pasteur Greer
Jean Greer has served as vice president of public art with the Arts & Science Council of Charlotte/ Mecklenburg County since 2000. She came to Charlotte from Broward County, Florida, where she was public art and design administrator of the Cultural Affairs Division. She holds master’s degrees in art history and education.
Rex Gulbranson
Rex Gulbranson is the public art program coordinator for the City of Tempe, Arizona. Before joining the City in 1998, he was executive director of the Papago Salado Association, a support organization to Papago Park and Tempe Rio Salado. Prior to that he was a program director for the Arizona Commission on the Arts for 17 years. A native of South Dakota, he has lived in Phoenix since 1979.
David Hoyt Johnson
David Hoyt Johnson is director of public art at the Tucson-Pima Arts Council, a member of the board of directors of Civitas Sonoran, and chair of the Public Art Network of Americans for the Arts.
Peggy Kendellen
Peggy Kendellen is a public art manager with the Regional Arts & Culture Council in Portland, Oregon. She manages an artist-in-residence program, public art projects for site-specific work, and the Visual Chronicle of Portland, a collection of works on paper. She has a bachelor’s and master’s degree in art from University of Wisconin-Milwaukee and received a Midwest Artists Fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts in 1990.
Larry Kirkland
Larry Kirkland creates public projects in a wide variety of communities throughout the world. Recently completed works enhance the National Academy of Sciences in Washington, DC, Iwate University in Japan, and the Portland, Oregon Airport. He is a member of the Peer Review Panels for Art in Architecture through the General Services Administration.
Sheila Klein
Sheila Klein is a sculptor, an artist, a person trying to remake the world in her vision. The range of her output includes studio work, art in public places, performance, installations, urban planning, collaborations, design products, and architectural projects. Among her most recently completed public projects are the new air traffic control tower at Los Angeles International Airport, a subway station called Underground Girl in Hollywood, and an urban garden of artifacts in Milwaukee.
Robert Krueger
Robert Krueger is the collections coordinator for the Regional Arts & Culture Council. He has also worked as a conservation technician and is a member of the Western Association for Art Conservation and the American Institute for Conservation of Historic and Artistic Works. He is a practicing sculptor with a bachelor’s degree from the Pacific Northwest College of Art.
Cheryll Leo-Gwin
Cheryll Leo-Gwin is a mixed media artist who serves as the director of the non-credit Art-Zones programs at Bellevue Community College. She has served on the King County Arts Commission and the King County Public Arts Commission and currently is a member of the Washington State Arts Commission. Her work is found in both private and public collections including that of Washington State and King County. She has spent the past three years working with artists and educators in China doing cultural exchanges.
Sheila Levrant de Bretteville
Working with communities in Los Angeles, New York, Rhode Island, New Haven, and Boston, Sheila Levrant de Bretteville has completed permanent, site-specific installations that reflect and hopefully enhance the everyday life of past and present populations, their contradictions intact. Born in Brooklyn, she is currently a resident of New Haven, Connecticut, where she is a professor in the School of Art at Yale University.
Barbara Luecke
Barbara Luecke came to public art through a path that began with large art event management, which led to commissioning art through grassroots efforts, then through public works projects, and even with private developers in need of incorporating art in their buildings.
Amy McBride
Amy McBride is the public art coordinator for the City of Tacoma Culture and Tourism Division. She was instrumental in reinstating a one percent for art ordinance in a community that voted it out in the 1980s and has breathed new life into a now thriving Municipal Art Program.
Jim McDonald
Jim McDonald is the curator of the Safeco Art Collection, where he is responsible for the company’s national collection of contemporary art. Previously, he was director of the Kent, Washington Arts Commission. He is currently a board member of the Cultural Development Authority of King County, Washington.
Linda Oestreich
Linda Oestreich has been an arts administrator for over 20 years. In 1989 she started the City of Olympia Arts Program, now recognized statewide for its innovative programs. She is the proud recipient of the 2000 Governor's Arts Award.
Marc Pally
Marc Pally is an artist and consultant on public art programs, policies, and projects. His interest in providing opportunities for artists and bridges to audiences was formed while director of LACE (Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions) and refined while arts planner for the Community Redevelopment Agency in Los Angeles.
Kevin L. Patterson
Kevin Patterson is chairman of the Arts & Science Council of Charlotte/Mecklenburg County’s Public Arts Commission. He has been involved in numerous arts and community organizations during his 18 years in Charlotte, including participation on the executive committees of the ASC and 100 Black Men of America, chairman of the United Way of North Carolina, board of directors of the Afro-American Cultural Center, Cultural Education Collaborative, and The Tyron Center for Visual Arts, to name a few. He is a worldwide sales executive for IBM.
Patricia C. Phillips
Patricia Phillips is an independent critic who has written extensively on public art, sculpture, landscape, and architecture. She is a professor of art at the State University of New York-New Paltz and executive editor of the Art Journal, a quarterly publication on contemporary art published by the College Art Association.
Renee Piechocki
Renee Piechocki is an artist and public art consultant who serves as the Public Art Network facilitator for Americans for the Arts. She worked as a project manager for the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs from 1994 to 1998. From 1998 to 2000, she worked for Vito Acconci and Acconci Studio on the administrative side of public art commissions all over the globe. She has been a consultant to the Raleigh-Durham International Airport and co-chair of the Chapel Hill Public Art Commission where she had been working to develop a public art ordinance and guidelines for the Town of Chapel Hill.
Mary Priester
Mary Priester has been the public art manager for TriMet since 1994, after nearly 12 years as a curator at the Portland Art Museum. She was art program coordinator for Westside Light Rail and became the program manager in 1999.
Tad Savinar
Tad Savinar is an artist based in Portland, Oregon, who has focused much of his work on urban design teams, master planning exercises, downtown revitalization plans, urban waterfronts, and regional infrastructure projects. Current projects include: Phoenix/East Valley Light Rail, Seattle Sound Transit Light Rail, Oregon Holocaust Memorial, Oregon Botanical Garden, The Columbine High School Memorial, and the Salmon/Main Plan—one million square vertical feet of housing, retail, residential, religious, and museum use over four contiguous blocks in the core of downtown Portland.
Henry M. Sayre
Henry Sayre is distinguished professor of art history at Oregon State University. He is the author of five books, co-editor of another, and producer of the 1997 public television series, A World of Art: Works in Progress.
Harriet F. Senie
Harriet Senie is director of museum studies and professor of art history at City College and the Graduate Center, CUNY; author of The Tilted Arc Controversy and Contemporary Public Sculpture; co-editor of Critical Issues in Public Art, and most recently “Reframing Public Art: Audience Use, Interpretation, and Appreciation,” Andrew McClellan, ed. Art and Its Publics.
Julie Silliman
Julie Silliman is the cultural arts planner for the Community Redevelopment Agency of the City of Los Angeles and is responsible for guiding public art projects in public and private developments within 33 redevelopment neighborhoods.
Buster Simpson
Buster Simpson is an artist based in Seattle. He holds a master’s degree from the University of Michigan Recently installed projects include Incidence, a major installation at the International Glass Museum, and Beckoning Cistern, part of a nine block high density urban watershed project. Works under construction include Autocorset for the entrance to the Third Street Tunnel in Los Angeles, Aggregate Plant in Redding, California, and an installation at the National Botanical Gardens in Wales.
Susan Leibovitz Steinman
Artist Susan Leibovitz Steinman salvages materials directly from community waste streams to construct public art installations that connect common daily experiences to broader social issues. Projects include conceptual sculpture gardens that meld art, ecology, and community action.
Sarah B. Smith
Sarah Smith is a public arts administrator and urban planner. As director of arts in transit at Metro in St. Louis, she oversees programs that enhance the transit system and build community partnerships through a place making approach that integrates public art, urban design, and community enhancement initiatives. She developed Metro’s Design and Percent for Art program. She has over 20 years experience serving in several senior positions in both the public and private sectors in Washington, DC and Denver, as well as St. Louis.
Karen Spahn
Karen Spahn has worked with the Greater Milwaukee Foundation as a program/development officer in arts and culture since 1993. In addition to her responsibilities at the Foundation, she has her own consulting business. Her clients include the City of Milwaukee and Milwaukee County, for which she coordinates and administers their public art and percent for art programs. As of May 2003, she began a new position as senior director of development for the Milwaukee Art Museum.
Alexandra Stone
Alexandra (Alex) Stone is a planner with the National Park Service's Rivers, Trails, and Conservation Assistance program in Seattle. Trained as a landscape architect, she has been a supporter of the arts since high school when she served on the city arts commission and was involved in community theater. She authored the competitive proposal that brought artists-in-residence to join National Park Service staff on community-based conservation and recreation projects in the Northwest.
