Comments on: Placemaking with Public Art: Who decides? https://blog.thepresentgroup.com/2011/02/24/placemaking-with-public-art-who-decides/ Exploring new models of support for contemporary artists, musing on the art world and people who make stuff, and documenting our life running the Present Group subscription art project. Mon, 14 Jul 2025 03:40:33 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: oliver https://blog.thepresentgroup.com/2011/02/24/placemaking-with-public-art-who-decides/comment-page-1/#comment-16238 oliver Tue, 01 Mar 2011 02:08:19 +0000 http://blog.thepresentgroup.com/?p=2246#comment-16238 hey freddy, that's a good point. I'd personally prefer it if the sign didn't have the "university" part at all. So it would be more like a neighborhood sign and less like a billboard. hey freddy, that’s a good point. I’d personally prefer it if the sign didn’t have the “university” part at all. So it would be more like a neighborhood sign and less like a billboard.

]]> By: Freddy https://blog.thepresentgroup.com/2011/02/24/placemaking-with-public-art-who-decides/comment-page-1/#comment-16236 Freddy Sat, 26 Feb 2011 04:06:06 +0000 http://blog.thepresentgroup.com/?p=2246#comment-16236 How about a option for NONE? Oaksterdam University is non-accredited and FOR-PROFIT. It offers no scholarships or financial assistance. This is advertising - not public art. Why is it allowed to shove its huge honking billboard right in our face at street level? What is the city receiving in return? What message is sent to the high school students in charter schools downtown and those transferring on city busses? What does this say to potential tenants for the offices vacated by APL and Clorox? Would we be happy to skirt the legal issues if this wall were screaming "Wells Fargo" or "Drink Coke"? How about a option for NONE?

Oaksterdam University is non-accredited and FOR-PROFIT. It offers no scholarships or financial assistance. This is advertising – not public art.

Why is it allowed to shove its huge honking billboard right in our face at street level? What is the city receiving in return?

What message is sent to the high school students in charter schools downtown and those transferring on city busses? What does this say to potential tenants for the offices vacated by APL and Clorox?

Would we be happy to skirt the legal issues if this wall were screaming “Wells Fargo” or “Drink Coke”?

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