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PlanPhilly Takes a “New Look” at Outdoor Sculpture
March 16, 2012
March 16, 2012
PlanPhilly’s JoAnn Greco recently talked with the Art Association’s Executive Director, Penny Balkin Bach, and Fairmount Park’s Rob Armstrong about the Art Association’s upcoming “Site Seeing” campaign.
Presented by the Fairmount Park Art Association in partnership with the City of Philadelphia’s Office of Arts, Culture, and the Creative Economy and Philadelphia Parks & Recreation, “Site Seeing: Redisover Public Art this Spring!” is a series of four free programs taking place throughout the month of April that aims to engage city residents and tourists with public art in new and unexpected ways. More info can be found here.
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On the Street with Museum Without Walls™: AUDIO
April 11, 2011
ARTSblog (4/11/2011)
Posted by Penny Balkin Bach
Public art can be one of a city’s most overlooked and under-appreciated cultural assets; but it’s also an ideal introductory cultural experience because it’s accessible “on the street,” visible at any time, free to all, and diverse in content – no tickets, no barriers, no time limits.
Spring Fever: MWW on uwishunu.com
March 22, 2011
uwishunu.com (3/22/11)
The onset of spring is an obvious deterrent to staying indoors, but neglecting the vast cultural offerings of Philadelphia isn’t an option, either.
The Fairmount Park Art Association has come up with a solution. In honor of the upcoming Philadelphia International Festival of the Arts, the organization has created a free downloadable audio tour entitled “Museum Without Walls™.”
MWW Featured in National Associated Press Story!
January 10, 2011
The Associated Press (11/11/2010)
The Associated Press recently published an in-depth feature on Museum Without Walls: AUDIO, and our program has been gaining national attention ever since. The AP story – Philly’s New ‘Museum’ Is Free, Outdoors, Open 24-7 – has already appeared in The Seattle Times, ABCNEWS.com, Yahoo! News, MSNBC.com, The Huffington Post, Nola.com, Stamford Advocate, The Canadian Press, Marin Independent Journal, The Philadelphia Tribune, METRO, Greenwich Time, Desert News, The Republic, The Pioneer Press, and PhillyBurbs.com, among others.
MWW: AUDIO Featured on WHYY’s “Friday Arts”
January 7, 2011
Friday Arts – WHYY TV (1/07/11)
Museum Without Walls™: AUDIO is featured on the January episode of WHYY’s “Friday Arts” TV program. The episode features several of the “voices” from the audio program, including John B. Kelly III on John B. Kelly, Michael Zuckerman on the Ellen Phillips Samuel Memorial, and Robert Linck on the Swann Memorial Fountain.
Watch the segment below or tune into WHYY during the month of January (schedule here) to watch the complete episode.
The DIY Guided Art Tour
November 25, 2010
The Independent Philadelphia (11/25/10)
You do your own taxes, and even change the oil in your own car, so why let someone else take you on a scripted tour? The good news is: you don’t have to!
INSIDE Magazine Interviews Executive Director Penny Balkin Bach
October 25, 2010
INSIDE Magazine (Fall 2010)
The Fairmount Park Art Association’s Executive Director, Penny Balkin Bach talks to INSIDE Magazine about public art in Philadelphia, Museum Without Walls™: AUDIO, and her love for a city “brimming” with much to see and do:
“Philadelphia has one of the most important collections of outdoor sculpture in the country, but it often goes unnoticed. Outdoor sculpture is one of Philadelphia’s most overlooked and underappreciated cultural assets — but the Fairmount Park Art Association’s ‘Museum Without Walls’ program is going to change all of that!”
Museum Design Lab on Museum Without Walls
September 24, 2010
Museum Design Lab (9/24/10)
http://museumdesignlab.wordpress.com/2010/09/24/museum-without-walls-audio./
Implemented by the Fairmount Park Art Association, the tours encompass the 50+ sculptures peppered amidst the myriad cultural institutions of the Parkway, and are based on the idea of authenticity in the presentation and interpretation of sculpture. These tours seek to purvey the different perspectives of artists, historians, teachers, scientists, writers, local community leaders, and, yes, curators in order to present a more personal experience of Philadelphia’s rich tradition of public sculpture.
Museum Without Walls Celebrates Philadelphia’s Outdoor Art
September 1, 2010
Rittenhouse Square Review (9/10)
We see them every day as we speed along Kelly Drive or stroll along the Benjamin Franklin Parkway. They are the silent sentinels of bronze and stone that have marked Philadelphia’s landscape for years, but whose origins and meaning remain a mystery to most of us. Who was Galusha Pennypacker, and why is he memorialized by a half-naked warrior taunting two tigers on Logan Square? Why, in Quaker Philadelphia, does a stern Pilgrim scowl at the Schuylkill River near Lemon Hill Drive?
Museum Without Walls featured in Americans for the Arts’ Public Art Network (PAN) Blog
August 2, 2010
Americans for the Arts’ Public Art Network (PAN) Blog (8/2/10)
http://thepublicartnetwork.blogspot.com/2010/08/public-arttheres-app-for-that-in.html