Forecast breaks down the hard and soft skills for successful public art practice, so you can do and lead this work on your own.
We offer workshops, training, fellowships, and other in-person and online learning opportunities focused on helping public artists, creatives, and affiliated professionals enlist culture and creativity to address equitable and healthy community outcomes.
Making It Public
Designed for artists of any discipline – visual artists, performance artists, dancers, poets, builders, designers, artisans, crafters, and more – who have little to no experience working on public art projects and are interested in taking their work into the public realm. Making It Public dives into the process of creating a public artwork. We explore creative process for a public artist, locational analysis, stakeholder and community considerations, funding opportunities, best practices for contracting and insurance, and bring in local artists to talk about their work. An optional add-on is to offer micro-grants to participants of Making It Public through an RFQ process. This provides an opportunity for participants to directly implement what they have learned in the workshop into their practices, and results in low-risk, small-scale, temporary artworks.
Making It Public can be modified to be one or 2 days long, virtual or in-person. We can also offer a version for community decision-makers. Contact us about how Making It Public can serve your community!
Public Art 101
Designed for anyone interested in understanding the ever-evolving fields of public art and placemaking. Together we will look at a historical arc of public art through project examples of all scales, budgets, mediums, funding mechanisms, and locations. We will engage in a series of activities that helps us formulate a shared language around public art and how it directly relates to the unique circumstances of each participant’s community.
This workshop is great for Public Art Commissions, Arts and Culture Commissions, City Council Members, Arts Selection Committees, Arts Administrators, and more.
Intro to Public Art Consulting
Designed for BIPOC artists/individuals with little to no public art consulting experience, Intro to Public Art Consulting gives participants an understanding of how to start on the path to public art consulting.
The workshop consists of recorded and live sessions [all virtual] over the course of five weeks, and engages guest speakers in discussions. Workshop content is presented through an equity lens with a particular emphasis on giving BIPOC individuals knowledge and resources to explore public art consulting as a career path.
Participants will:
Don’t see what you are looking for listed here? We can design and adapt workshops for you.
Piloted in 2014, the Making It Public workshop was originally designed with the intention of equipping Minnesota artists with essential place-making tools for utilization in their own communities. Over the years the workshop curriculum has developed nationally to serve artists who are interested in exploring or expanding a public art-making practice as well as arts administrators who are interested in strengthening local practices to support, create, and promote public art opportunities.
The two individual workshops have been attended by hundreds of artists and arts administrators across the U.S. at the request of municipalities, state arts agencies, non-profit organizations, and private developers. The 5-week Zoom educational experience consists of 90-minute presentations covering practical and tactical subject matter including local and national arts industry guest panelists.
Grand Canyon Trust is working to build just transition of land in the Navajo Nation and would like to explore how public art and placemaking can be a part of this transition. Forecast developed and delivered a workshop curriculum to build capacity for artists in the region, so they can lead conversations on topics related to the just transition of the land. Workshop participants learned how to:
After the workshop, participants were invited to submit proposals for creative projects that inspire change and different ways of thinking in their communities and use the talents of local artists and community members to reimagine local economies, food systems, recreation opportunities, tourism, and more. Projects will be installed September – November, 2023, and Forecast will provide technical support to artists along the way.
Forecast customizes trainings and workshops for artists, creatives, culture bearers and producers, community leaders, and affiliated professionals. This includes Public Art Commissions, Arts and Culture Commissions, State Arts Councils, City Council Members, Arts Selection Committees, Arts Administrators, and anyone who works with artists and art in public space. Scroll down to find a sample list of workshop clients.
We provide key knowledge about managing public art projects, facilitate sessions to help take ideas from formation to implementation, and work with community members to envision creative places and collaborate with artists.
Our staff specialize in creating unique, one of a kind learning opportunities and facilitate discussions that directly meet the needs of participants. We can also adapt and combine any of the experiences listed here to suit the needs of you and your community. Workshops or breakout sessions may be developed to address local challenges, build skills, facilitate collaboration and co-creation, or develop new plans. Our Team is adept in customizing presentations, workshops, and trainings based on a topic of interest to you and your community.
Hire Forecast to bring our learning to your conference, classroom, or gathering in any location across the US.
730 Stanyan Associates, L.P.
Americans for the Arts, Boston, MA
Artistry, Bloomington, MN
Catolica Universidad, Lima, Peru
City of Fargo, Fargo, ND
City of Fergus Falls, MN
City of Reno, NV
City of Vancouver, British Columbia
College Art Association Conference, Chicago, IL
Community Foundation of Louisville, KY
Cultural STAR
Grand Canyon Trust
International Sculpture Conference, Auckland, New Zealand
Louisiana Division of the Arts
Maryland State Arts Council
MSAB Arts Access
National Endowment for the Arts (NEA)
New England Foundation for the Arts, Inc. (NEFA)
NJ State Council On the Arts
State Foundation on Culture and the Arts, Honolulu, HI
Shanghai University College of Fine Arts, Shanghai, China
Twin Cities Media Alliance
Urban Arts Commission Memphis
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