It was an honor to celebrate the Linemen Sculpture on September 24 with representatives from the Utility Workers Union of America. Platform Art board members joined this very special social hour, and photo opportunity at the Tribute to Linemen sculpture on Lake Mirror.
We appreciate City Commissioner Stephanie Madden's push to increase public art in Lakeland through a city resolution passed in 2006. The measure pledges 1% of construction costs for municipal facilities to a fund for public art. https://t.co/NFfZ18LjGG
The phenomenon seen in the video is the one for which Ernst Chladni is perhaps best known. It is a technique to reveal the complex patterns of vibration in a rigid surface. https://t.co/X2zwTMkA8h
Platform Art is excited to announce plans for its next public art project in Lakeland. A sculpture design representing the sense of sound will be created and installed in the sensory garden of Bonnet Springs Park. https://t.co/9CnIRjL1a9
Our Sensory Salon is less than a week away! Join us for an evening of libations, refreshments, and entertainment - plus the announcement of the winning design for the Sensory Sculpture. Get your tickets today: https://t.co/LG6e4ZeEPm
Sensory Sculpture Project Partner, ART Research Enterprises, is a full service conservation/ foundry fine art facility, provides high-end professional fabrication design and production services. https://t.co/PAeHe2ZOAA
As post-war Japanese architects of the 1950's learned about the Western, modernist principles that were beginning to enter their schools, these architects also considered how to preserve their own pre-war culture. https://t.co/kzSguS9o3M
Public art representing multiple perspectives and genres opens the community to new ideas, cultures, and appreciation. Platform Art will seek out and support opportunities to showcase a diversity of art forms. https://t.co/Xe0m0i3Gp0
Some of the most exciting design takes place when architects are asked to conceptualize a home. “Our home is our sanctum, and it is a mirror on our private selves,” writer Sam Lubell muses. https://t.co/hyuu4XMkvK
One of our goals is to present socially-engaging art projects. Public art representing multiple perspectives and genres opens the community to new ideas, cultures, and appreciation. Platform Art will seek out and support opportunities to showcase a diversity of art forms.
The Sensory Sculpture will be a collaborative effort between Platform Art, NuVu Innovation Labs and All Saints Academy, and Bonnet Springs Park. https://t.co/UQbMbamcju
“Instruction drawings,” as they’ve been called, are preparatory sketches and notes; they might even be the sole remnants of a work that an artist dreamt up, but never realized. https://t.co/U1gGzf5GjE
The Japanese sculptor and conceptual artist Nobuo Sekine, whose innovative practice provided some of the foundation ideas of the Mono-ha (“School of Things”) movement in the 1960s, has died. https://t.co/juB6u3uG9w
Do you want a sneak peek of what the students at All Saints Academy are working on for the Sensory Sculpture at Bonnet Springs Park? Check out the link below to see the project models (and some of their other work) in the NuVu Studio student gallery. https://t.co/KNtQZfiz17
Platform Art, Inc., a non-profit cultural arts organization, is a community-conscious collaboration of artisans and art lovers whose ultimate goal is to showcase new and exciting talent in the fields of visual arts, film, fashion, music and performance.
Grant approval notices are the best. PlatformKids, our annual showcase of K-12 student art and performance, is funded in part by a grant from the George Jenkins Fund within the GiveWell Community Foundation. We're so grateful.