#signmycast

[teencaster]

Boys with pink casts on their legs.

[lizelle722]

I always have the greatest adventure but end up hurt #signmycast it's not fun till someone gets hurt 🙈🙈🐶🐶🐾🐾 crazy parents always making me do the most #chieflife

[holapublicartproject]

Why We Need Public Art

When looking at the urbanization of a community, often art and it's immediate need or relevancy towards that community is overlooked.  Yet the need for public art within such communities should be viewed as a priority. 

Public art allows members of the community to take a break from the stress of a monotonous lifestyle. Darren Walker, Vice President of the Rockefeller Foundation and Vice Chairman of the Foundation for Art and Preservation in Embassies possibly put it best when he stated, "[I]t is impossible to have a society that is civil and educated without public art. It lifts up humanity and challenges the individual who encounters it to think differently about the world."

"Sign my cast: Wrist" and "Sign my cast: Ankle" at LAX Art, Culver City, 2008 by Anna Sew Hoy

Public art allows members of the community direct and ongoing encounters with art. It promotes social interaction and artwork can lead the viewer toward self-reflection and awareness.

"Sign my cast: Wrist"

Public art is freely accessible to all and when cities begin implementing public art within their infrastructure an immediately increase in the cities' overall value can be seen.  Public art adds meaning and importance to cities, while providing a crossroads between the past, the present, and the future.