(1/25/11)
News Alert!
The Fairmount Park Art Association and our Museum Without Walls™: AUDIO program will receive the Inaugural PNC Arts Alive Award for Arts Innovation!
The PNC Arts Alive Award for Arts Innovation in honor of Peggy Amsterdam is a new award that will be presented at the Arts & Business Council’s annual Awards Luncheon on Friday, April 29, 2011 at the Pennsylvania Convention Center.
This new award acknowledges an arts organization that has demonstrated an innovative approach to increasing arts access and engagement.
The award recognizes the Art Association’s Museum Without Walls™: AUDIO program, designed to reach culture seekers as well as non-traditional arts audiences by making engagement with public art a fascinating and rewarding experience. Philadelphia has one of the most important collections of public art in the United States, but it often goes unnoticed. Public art is one of our city’s most overlooked and underappreciated cultural assets – but the Fairmount Park Art Association’s Museum Without Walls™: AUDIO program has changed all of that by providing access to works of art always on view, but often unobserved. Public art is an ideal introductory cultural experience because it is accessible “on the street”, free to all, and diverse in content. It can be enjoyed spontaneously, alone or in groups, and by residents and tourists alike.