The role of the monument in civic life has become a fractious topic in America. Monuments can interpret and present a history. They can be a statement of community values. But all too often these statements or histories are one sided, incomplete, or just wrong. Artists have been grappling with the layered meanings of public … Continue reading Using Popwalk to Interpret Monuments and Historic Locations
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Sanpete Valley PopwalkExhibit (yes, the whole valley)
Sanpete Valley, Utah is probably not a place you have heard of. That’s alright. This broad valley is nestled between two sets of mountains, behind the larger urban areas in Salt Lake and Utah Valleys. It has a small college, a few small towns, and an excellent arts center, Granary Arts, with a far sighted … Continue reading Sanpete Valley PopwalkExhibit (yes, the whole valley)
Looking Ahead to a Year of Covid
Popwalk is a platform for exhibiting digital, site-specific art. If you have already downloaded the app, you have probably seen that there are over 250 works exhibited throughout the United States and abroad. If you have looked over this blog, you have seen that Popwalk has been used for site-specific exhibits, university courses, museum exhibits, … Continue reading Looking Ahead to a Year of Covid
How Museums can engagine Audiences with Popwalk
It is a difficult time for museums. They are tasked with providing cultural experiences to their communities and being a repository of that culture for the future. Covid 19 has cut off audiences from many institutions. It is having a difficult effect on institutions that rely on visitors to keep their doors open. Sites Set … Continue reading How Museums can engagine Audiences with Popwalk
A Concert for No One
A site specific social distancing performance bt Clinton Whiting Last week I had the privilege of assisting Salt Lake City-based artist, Clint Whiting create a work of art, both complex and beautiful, for an exhibition of site-specific artwork held throughout Salt Lake City and the surrounding communities. The work was poignant and thoughtful, and Clint had … Continue reading A Concert for No One
The Space Between Us, exhibition in Salt Lake City
We have all been asked to distance ourselves from our neighbors to stem the tide of Covid-19. This is not a natural state for humans: community is written into our DNA. This distancing can be seen as a necessary social tool, an individual act of community service, or even a gesture of generosity to others … Continue reading The Space Between Us, exhibition in Salt Lake City
The Space Between Us.
A Popwalk exhibition proposal in the light of social distancing.
Creating Interpretive Material for a Museum Exhibition
I was approached by Ashlee Whitaker, curator at the Brigham Young University Museum of Art, to help develop some interpretive materials for an exhibition that she was curating. The artist Jorge Cocco Santangelo will be showing many of his paintings at the Museum of Biblical Art in Dallas and she wanted to use Popwalk to display … Continue reading Creating Interpretive Material for a Museum Exhibition
What is Site-Specific?
The NPR podcast, Hidden Brain has an episode entitled "A Dramatic Cure". This episode focuses on the ways in which the placebo effect has been used and tested in medicine. One of the researchers interviewed for this podcast, Dr. J. Bruce Moseley, talked about his work in this area. This doctor was interested in a specific kind … Continue reading What is Site-Specific?
Using Popwalk to Teach
The Popwalk app has been used in art and art history instruction in many ways. It is a powerful tool for helping art students to understand principles of art and site-specificity. We have received a lot of questions from instructors about how Popwalk might be used in this setting. We have made a broad list … Continue reading Using Popwalk to Teach