News Release
Architecture Hosts “Urban Artscape”
University of Detroit Mercy Architecture Professors Noah Resnick and Dan Pitera will participate in "Urban Artscape" on October 5 at 6 p.m. The event is a panel discussion featuring several of the city's top urban art innovators, as part of the Hamilton Anderson Associates' "CHALLENGING DETROIT: (re)generating urbanism." series.
"Urban Artscape" is a program featuring many of the city's top innovators of urban art. The event aims to explore how certain social, economic and geographic factors impact their work, including the ways in which the scale and scope of artistic interventions are informed or modulated by the city. The panel will also evaluate the short and long-term effectiveness of such interventions as devices for urban regeneration. Whether describing a single urban intervention, an academic analysis of Detroit’s urban artscape, the public aspect of urban art, or the implementation of a larger, ephemeral artistic festival, "Urban Artscape" hopes to look at the effectiveness of these interventions when viewed from an ever-widening perspective?
Other speakers on the panel include Public Pool Art Space Co-Founder and Vice President of Integrated Marketing at Lovio George, Jim Boyle; Director of Public Art Workz Urban Muralist, Chazz Miller; and Hamilton Anderson Associates' Melissa Dittmer.
The series strives to serve as a platform for the discussion of innovative strategies for the social, economic and environmental regeneration and redevelopment of the city. Overall effectiveness of interventions, from creative urban art to solo urban intervention acts will be discussed.
This is a free event; the public is encouraged to attend at the 5th floor of Willy’s Overland Loft, 444 W. Willis Street in Detroit. A reception will follow at Re:view Contemporary Gallery in Detroit. For more information visit http://www.roguehaa.com.
Release date: September 27, 2010
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