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Permission, Ownership, Copyright, and Preservation, and Sale of Public Art
"Permission, Ownership, Copyright, and Preservation, and Sale of Public Art"
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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
Public art is known by many names. Graffiti. Urban art. Tagging. Street art. It comes in all styles and media. It ranges from crudely made to wellplanned and incredibly executed works. It exists in dying small towns and the largest thriving cities. It may be offensive. It may be beautiful. It may be both. Some is the work of artists who are reliant on public spaces for their gallery space. Some is a response to a call for artists. It is frequently the product of a crime. Increasingly however, more and more of these works are community-oriented and funded by governmental entities and/ or businesses. Regardless of these characteristics, all public art is impacted by issues of permission, ownership, copyright, preservation and sale.
This presentation will discuss the ownership and use of copyright with respect to public art. It will also consider the intersection of preservation of public art for public consumption, with the growing market to sell, buy and collect public art. Both issues will also be discussed in the context of the legal rights and interests of the property owner where public art is created and exists.
About the presenter
Dave Bright practices in the areas of real estate, land use and real estate development; business transactions; franchising and distribution; nonprofit and tax-exempt organizations; estate planning and probate; and art and museum law. Dave has earned Martindale-Hubbell's top "AV" Peer Review Rating and is an alumni of the Iowa City Area Chamber of Commerce’s Community Leadership Program. He was recently selected to author the Iowa section of the American Bar Association’s “Franchise Desk Book.” Dave currently serves as the Co-Chair of the American Bar Association’s Art & Cultural Heritage Law Committee, and regularly contributes to its section of the ABA’s “Year In Review” publication.
Dave is a frequent speaker at colleges and universities, local businesses and continuing education events on topics that include business formation, estate planning, nonprofit and tax-exempt governance, and art and museum law. He is active in the Iowa City community through volunteering and board service. He presently serves on the boards of the Bur Oak Land Trust, Cedar Rapids Museum of Art, Cedar Rapids YMCA, Iowa City Public Library Friends Foundation (President-Elect), Iowa Volunteer Lawyers for the Arts (President) and YMCA Camp Wapsie (Chair).