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The Art Association holds an Annual Meeting
for members and invited guests, bringing
together people of diverse experiences to
consider a topic of timely civic interest.
The meeting includes a brief business session
followed by a special presentation. Speakers
have included:
2003
Siah
Armajani
Artist
"Talk"
2002
Alexander
S.C. Rower
Director, Calder Foundation
"Alexander Calder and his Family's
Legacy"
2001
Claes
Oldenburg and Coosje van Bruggen
Artists
"The Spirit of the Monument"
2000
Joseph
Sax
Attorney and author
"Owning Great Art: Right and Responsibility"
1999
Ellen
Dissanayake
Bioanthropologist and author
"Why the Arts Are Necessary"
1998
Lucy
Lippard
Author and activist
"On the Beaten Path: Tourism, Public
Art, and Place"
1997
Dolores
Hayden
Architect, historian, and author
"The Power of Place: Urban Landscapes
as Public History"
1996
Christo
and Jeanne Claude
Artists
"Wrapped Reichstag, Berlin 1971–95,
and Works in Progress"
1995
Sandra
Percival
Director of the Public Art Development Trust
in London
"A View from Europe: Influencing the
City Through Public Art"
1994
William
Morrish and Catherine Brown
Planners
"The Public Arts: Infrastructure for
the New Social Covenant"
1993
Diane
Shamash
Former Public Art Manager, Seattle Arts
Commission
"Public Art in Seattle: Early Projects
and Recent Developments"
1992
Mary
Jane Jacob
Independent curator
"A New Public Art for American Cities"
1991
Nancy
Rosen
Independent curator and public art advisor
"From Battery Park City to Walt Disney
Dream"
1990
Albert
Elsen
Art historian and Rodin scholar
"Art in Public Spaces: Daring to Dream"
Other speakers of note
have included Jamake Highwater,
author and cultural commentator (1989);
Light
Up Philadelphia artists and
consultants (1988); Michael Van
Valkenburg, landscape architect
(1987); Martin Z. Margolis,
developer (1986); Richard Andrews,
former director of the Visual Arts Program,
National Endowment for the Arts (1985);
artist Isamu Noguchi (1984);
Dr. Sherman E. Lee, former
director of the Cleveland Museum of Art
(1983); Penny Balkin Bach, project
director of Form
and Function (1982); John Canaday,
former art critic, New York Times
(1963); landscape architect Jacques
Greber (1962); landscape architect
Ian McHarg (1961); author
Lewis Mumford (1942 and 1953);
landscape architect Frederick Law
Olmsted, Jr. (1905); and photographer
Eadweard Muybridge (1884).
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