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The Fairmount Park Art Association is the nation's first private, non-profit organization dedicated to public art and urban planning. Chartered in 1872, the initial purpose of the Art Association was to enhance the park environment with sculpture. Its concerns soon expanded to "promote and foster the beautiful in the City of Philadelphia, in its architecture, improvements and general plan." The Art Association promotes the appreciation of public art through its programs and advocacy efforts in order to carry out its multiple objectives to commission, interpret, and preserve public art in Philadelphia. Initiated in 1996, "New*Land*Marks: Public Art, Community, and the Meaning of Place" invited artists and community organizations to plan enduring public art projects that explore our most valuable urban resources: people, their history, and their hopes for the future. The exhibition offers a synoptic overview of proposals for new public works by 23 artists, architects, landscape architects, and writers who have been working with 18 community organizations throughout Philadelphia under the New*Land*Marks initiative. An abbreviated "transportable" version of the show travels to community locations prior to the opening of a major exhibition at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts. The exhibit includes proposals, models, site photographs, and other materials by artists Mei-Ling Hom, John Kindness, Malcolm Cochrane, Martha Jackson Jarvis and others. A catalog with essays by Thomas Hine, Lucy Lippard, and Ellen Dissanayake accompanies the exhibit. Project Dates: January 2001 - April 2001
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