Downtown Greenway News & Events
Inside Scoop on the Over.Under.Pass
March 21, 2012
The opening and dedication of Morehead Park - a ¼ mile section of the Downtown Greenway - will be held Sunday, May 6 from 2-5 pm. This is the second in a series of features about 4 major works of public art that will be unveiled at this celebration.
Categories: Public Art
Inside Scoop on the Inside/Out Bench
March 15, 2012
The opening and dedication of Morehead Park - a ¼ mile section of the Downtown Greenway - will be held Sunday, May 6 from 2-5 pm. This is the first in a series of features about 4 major works of public art that will be unveiled at this celebration.
The second of twelve artist benches representing neighborhood themes is Inside/Out. This seating arrangement by Ben Kastner and Toby Keaton of Wilmington, NC consists of a concrete and iron bench and a “Tobacco” chair, both echoing the style of furnishings in the nearby Blandwood mansion, home of Governor John Motley Morehead.
Categories: Public Art
Public Art Consultant Jack Becker Unites Greensboro in Considering Futures for Public Art
November 8, 2011
Greensboro is pleased to welcome Jack Becker, Director of Forecast Public Art (Minneapolis), for two speaking engagements where he will present two talks on Public Art as Civic Catalyst. The project represents a partnership between The Public Art Endowment, The Downtown Greenway, Elsewhere, and the Weatherspoon Art Museum, an exciting collaboration of organizations working together to build public art and creative community in Greensboro.
Jack will discuss the complex, beneficial, and sometimes contentious role that art plays in the public realm. He will be at the Weatherspoon Art Museum Auditorium on Saturday November 12th from 2-4pm, the event is open and free to the public.
Jack will discuss the ways public art and community participation contribute significantly to the identity of a city. He will broadly address the role of the over 350 public art programs in the United States working at the federal, state, city, and county levels, as well as transit and aviation programs nationally. He will also offer reflections on the scale of budget allocations that make public art possible and beneficial.
Jack Becker is the founder and Director of Forecast Public Art, a public art generator based in Minneapolis, Minnesota. Forecast is the publisher of Public Art Review (a public art magazine), the distributor of grants and commissions to the local Minneapolis/ St. Paul artist community, and a leading consultancy for building community interest and investment through a public process for public art.
Categories: Public Art
The next bench has been chosen for installation on the Downtown Greenway Phase 1a!
May 17, 2011
The Downtown Greenway has commissioned the ALLOY Artisan Group for the fabrication and installation of the next bench on the Downtown Greenway. The bench will be installed on the Phase 1a section of the Downtown Greenway near the intersection of Spring Garden Street in the fall of 2011.
Categories: Public Art
Learn more about the Railroad Underpass Public Art Project and Give Us Your Feedback Online
January 27, 2011
In a series of public meetings held on January 25, 2011, sculptor Jim Gallucci and lighting designer Scott Richardson presented concepts for their vision of transforming an abandoned railroad underpass sited on the Downtown Greenway between West Lee Street and Spring Garden Rd. into a public art space.
Categories: Public Art
Preliminary Design Proposals Community Meeting for the Railroad Underpass Public Art Project
January 13, 2011
The Downtown Greenway will host a public meeting on Tuesday, January 25th 12-2 and 5-7 to see preliminary design proposals for the railroad underpass public art project. Join us on Tuesday, January 25th 12-2 and 5-7 at the action Greensboro offices (317 south Elm Street in Downtown Greensboro). Parking is available on-street as well as in the parking lot across the street. Jim Gallucci and Scott Richardson will present and discuss their proposal for The Downtown Greenway Railroad Underpass Public Art Collaboration, a public art project that involves the creative renovation of an abandoned underpass located between Spring Garden and Lee Street along Freeman Mill Road.
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Categories: Public Art
Call to Artists
December 1, 2010
The Downtown Greenway seeks proposals for the second of 12 neighborhood benches to be commissioned for the Downtown Greenway. It will be located in the Phase 1A section of the trail, which runs between West Lee Street and Spring Garden Street along the east side of Freeman Mill Road in the southwest section of downtown Greensboro.
Categories: Public Art
NEA awards Downtown Greenway prestigious grant
July 15, 2010
Action Greensboro announced today that The National Endowment for the Arts has awarded the Downtown Greenway a grant of $100,000 as a part of its Mayor’s Institute on City Design 25th Anniversary Initiative (MICD 25). From over 200 applicants from across the country, the Downtown Greenway project was selected as one of 21 grants totaling $3 million.
Categories: Public Art
Juan Logan begins work on Grounded Here
July 5, 2010
Artist, Juan Logan begins work on Grounded Here, the piece commissioned to commemorate the important history of Ashe Street and the Warnersville community.
Categories: Phase 1, Public Art
Artist Brower Hatcher completes work on The Gateway of the Open Book Cornerstone
June 28, 2010
Artist Brower Hatcher completes work on The Gateway of the Open Book Cornerstone. This piece includes Brower’s framework with embedments created by local artist, Frank Russell in collaboration with students from the Warnersville neighborhood and Jones Elementary School and Smith High School. This piece will be stored in Rhode Island until the site is ready for installation which is expected in the fall of 2010.
Categories: Public Art
Art Gets New Home Along the Greenway
June 7, 2010
"Triumph, Endurance, Hope, Strength and Faith again have a place in the Warnersville community. A group of Greensboro Parks and Recreation workers installed the much-discussed benches at their new home near the Freeman Mill Road exit to Lee Street early Tuesday morning. The benches are near their old location but within sight of the road." Read the full News & Record story.
Categories: Phase 1, Public Art
Glenwood Neighbors Travel To The International Civil Rights Center & Museum
February 1, 2010
Glenwood neighbors use the Downtown Greenway to travel to the opening of the International Civil Rights Center & Museum.
Categories: Phase 1, Public Art
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