The Symposium’s Keynote Presentation was delivered by Mary Miss who has founded the City as Living Laboratory—a framework for making issues of social and environmental sustainability tangible through collaboration and the arts. Trained as a sculptor, Miss's work creates situations emphasizing a site’s history, its ecology, or aspects of the environment that have gone unnoticed. She has worked closely with architects, planners, engineers, ecologists, and public administrators on projects as diverse as creating a temporary memorial around the perimeter of Ground Zero, marking the predicted flood level of Boulder, Colorado, revealing the history of the Union Square Subway station in New York City or turning a sewage treatment plant into a public space. For more information visit www.marymiss.com
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| Mary Miss walking on Maya Lin's earthwork near Crestwood, KY |
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| The earthwork from afar |
Morning panelists discussed recent public art projects in St. Louis, Nashville, and Long
Beach, Calif. The featured artists have created or managed works in outdoor
settings such as vacant city lots, flooded waterfronts and alongside urban
waterways. Those speakers included Tiffany Carbonneau, Bellarmine University;
Leslie Markle, Curator for Public Art, Washington University; and Caroline
Vincent, Nashville Metro Arts Commission. Dan Jones, chairman and
CEO of 21st Century Parks, gave the luncheon talk about the
Parklands of Floyds Fork urban parks system project. The afternoon roundtable
session about perspectives on public art brought U of L scholars
to the table to address sacred sites in a global perspective, environmental history, urban
planning and mapping as a tool to understand landscape.
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