Uploaded April 2021 | Updated September 2026, 2 weeks ago
As the global Covid-19 pandemic continues to force many of us to conduct much of our lives outdoors, we at MOCA believe that it is an opportune time to focus our programming on outdoor art in the public sphere. In doing so, we aim to call attention to the spaces that host these artworks and the ways that art, site, and public may work in tandem to create civic discourse. As part of this effort, we have organized Uncommon Commons, a series of virtual panel discussions that investigate the relationship between outdoor artworks, public sites, and the people that visit them.
For this fifth and final installment of our Uncommon Commons series of virtual panels, we turn our attention to the reception and impact side of the community relationship to public art. We will bring together a panel of public art experts who will each consider how the works they have put into the public sphere have affected their communities. By adopting a critical lens on projects past, present, and future these specialists will chart the evolution of the political, aesthetic, and ethical concerns commissioners, curators, and artists must take into consideration when engaging with public art. In a series of examples, we will explore the opportunities, and pitfalls, that are unique to artists working within the public sphere.
As the global Covid-19 pandemic continues to force many of us to conduct much of our lives outdoors, we at MOCA believe that it is an opportune time to focus our programming on outdoor art in the public sphere. In doing so, we aim to call attention to the spaces that host these artworks and the ways that art, site, and public may work in tandem to create civic discourse. As part of this effort, we have organized Uncommon Commons, a series of virtual panel discussions that investigate the relationship between outdoor artworks, public sites, and the people that visit them.
For this fifth and final installment of our Uncommon Commons series of virtual panels, we turn our attention to the reception and impact side of the community relationship to public art. We will bring together a panel of public art experts who will each consider how the works they have put into the public sphere have affected their communities. By adopting a critical lens on projects past, present, and future these specialists will chart the evolution of the political, aesthetic, and ethical concerns commissioners, curators, and artists must take into consideration when engaging with public art. In a series of examples, we will explore the opportunities, and pitfalls, that are unique to artists working within the public sphere.
