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- Michael LeClere, "Art as an Avenue to Promote Industry, Manufacturing, and Placemaking Amidst the Decline of America's Bread Basket, Rust Belt, and & Rural Communities"
"Art as an Avenue to Promote Industry, Manufacturing, and Placemaking Amidst the Decline of America's Bread Basket, Rust Belt, and & Rural Communities"
"Art as an Avenue to Promote Industry, Manufacturing, and Placemaking Amidst the Decline of America's Bread Basket, Rust Belt, a
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Symposia Abstracts and Speaker Bios
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2016
- Erika Doss, "Screwball Regionalism: Grant Wood and Humor During the Great Depression"
- Kerry Dean Carso, "Grant Wood and the After-Life of Victorian Architecture"
- James Swensen, "On Common Ground: Grant Wood and the photography of the Farm Security Administration"
- Annelise K. Madsen, "'Something of color and imagination': Grant Wood, Storytelling, and the Past’s Appeal in Depression-Era America"
- Jason Weems, "Grant Wood's Regionalist Camouflage"
- Sue Taylor, "In Springtime: Myth and Memory in Grant Wood's Last Paintings"
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2018
- Betni Kalk, "Artist-Community Collaborative Murals"
- Carrie Ida, "On the Line and Community Engagement"
- Jane Gilmor, "Within and Without: A Socially Engaged Art Practice Investigates the Invisible Worker, Poverty and Community Building"
- Fereshteh Toosi, "Learning in Public: Socially-Engaged Art and Experimental Education"
- David Bright, "Permission, Ownership, Copyright, and Preservation, and Sale of Public Art"
- Lynn Verschoor and Scott Wallace, "Public Art, Private Funds"
- Mandy Vink, "How Saying No to YES became the Catalyst for Boulder's Public Art Program"
- Jen Krava, "Codified Bodies: Tools to Measure Social Liberation and Inculcate Cultural Change"
- Traci Molloy, "Against My Will: A Multigenerational Collaboration with Sexual Assault Survivors from Alfred University"
- Michael LeClere, "Art as an Avenue to Promote Industry, Manufacturing, and Placemaking Amidst the Decline of America's Bread Basket, Rust Belt, and & Rural Communities"
- Desmond Lewis, "Grit and Grind: Memphis Bred Me"
- Dan Perry and Tom Stancliffe, "Public Art Incubator: Fabricating Community Engagement Through Public Art"
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2022
- Valerie Balint, "Yesterday and Tomorrow: Re-framing the Historic Artists’ Homes and Studios Program"
- Joni Kinsey, "Grant Wood’s Studio-Homes: From Hayloft to Mansion, Overalls to Hollywood"
- Olivia Armandroff, "Tiling a Life: Henry Chapman Mercer and His Fonthill Castle"
- Michael Clapper, "Living the Dream: Maxfield Parrish and The Oaks"
- Karen Zukowski, "The Past and Future of Henry Varnum Poor's Crow House"
- Lisa Stone, "Home Based and Life-Specific: Artist-Built Environments"
- Zac Bleicher, "Edgar Miller’s Handmade Homes and Studios of Interwar Chicago"
- Sarah Rovang, "'Thinking on a Wall': Home, Space, and the Creative Practice of Georgia O’Keeffe"
- Daniel Belasco, "The Artist as Builder: Al Held’s Barn Studio, 1965–2005"
- Sean Ulmer, "The Grant Wood Studio: A Space Transformed and Transformational"
- Victoria Munro, "Alice Austen House"
- Helen A. Harrison, "'The Country is Wonderful': Jackson Pollock and Lee Krasner in The Springs"
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2025
- Maya Harakawa, "Benny Andrews and the Problem of Regionalism"
- Erika Schneider, "Inclusive Regionalism: Meta Vaux Warrick Fuller’s Water Boy"
- Carey Rote, "Antonio E. García: South Texas Regionalist"
- Gina Gwen Palacios, "Frontera Regionalism: Art from the Borderlands"
- Liz Kim, "Regionalist Views of Amado M. Peña’s Chicano Movement Posters"
- James Denison, "Beyond Midwestern Realism: Racialized Regionalism in Comparative Perspective"
- David Ehrenpreis, "'Savage Iowa:' Grant Wood’s Vision of Native America"
- Christopher Atkins, "Reimagining Rural America: Grant Wood’s Corn Room"
- Paolo Morales, "Memphis Tulips and Flowering Dogwood: Exploring Racialization of the Photograph through Encounters as an Asian-American"
- Christopher-Rasheem McMillan, "Performing Christian Nationalism in the Midwest: Race, Ritual, and the Other"
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2016
Abstract
Art serves as a catalyst for community development and cultivating a sense of place. It can also be used to promote industry, manufacturing, and business. The entire artistic profession of graphic design and advertising can be considered an application of art. Although the relationship between art and advertising is highly debated and often antagonistic, the application of art within the broader context of Placemaking and economic development cannot be ignored since art is neither blue-collar nor white-collar. Art is experiential, and the distinction between art and advertising is tenuous to say the least. However, this distinction may lie in the degree to which it focuses on the human experience, enhances the context and environment it is placed in, and ultimately to what end.
This lecture will discuss the differences between art and advertising and analyze examples of art integration in the Creative Placemaking process. Topics will include historic preservation & local heritage, artistic interventions in urban and rural design, economic development, and arts role in building social capital. We will explore local, regional, national, and international examples of art integration in architecture, landscape architecture, community planning, and creating places that hold meaning, help facilitate investment, and promote stewardship.
About the presenter
Michael LeClere’s professional focus revolves around the belief that communities are our greatest resources. Whether large or small, they tell the stories of who we are, where we came from and where we’re going. They exist and thrive because they’ve been loved, invested in, and stewarded. Public spaces serve as our best outdoor classrooms for understanding the application of the arts, science, engineering, and economics. Just as individuals have a right to education, communities have a right to tools, resources, and strategies to sustain themselves. Communities deserve good classrooms that encourage interaction and critical thinking. They deserve good planning and design despite their size or the obstacles they face.