Design in Public http://www.designinpublic.org Just another WordPress site Tue, 07 May 2013 05:45:05 +0000 en-US hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 http://www.designinpublic.org/1518/ http://www.designinpublic.org/1518/#comments Wed, 01 May 2013 19:09:51 +0000 dipadmin http://www.designinpublic.org/?p=1518 Read more]]> Design in Public Awarded NEA Grant

For Immediate Release: 

DATE:             May 1, 2013

CONTACT:  Lisa Richmond, Executive Director

 

Design in Public receives National Endowment for the Arts Grant
to Support its 2013-14 Programming

 

Grant one of 817 NEA Art Works grants totaling $26.3 million in funding nationwide

 

Seattle— National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) Acting Chairman Joan Shigekawa announced today that Design in Public is one of 817 nonprofit organizations nationwide to receive an NEA Art Works grant. Design in Public is recommended for a $20,000 grant to support our 2013-14 programming.

  

Acting Chairman Shigekawa said, “The National Endowment for the Arts is proud to support these exciting and diverse arts projects that will take place throughout the United States. Whether it is through a focus on education, engagement, or innovation, these projects all contribute to vibrant communities and memorable opportunities for the public to engage with the arts.”

  

In August 2012, the NEA received 1,547 eligible applications for Art Works grants requesting more than $80 million in funding. Art Works grants support the creation of art that meets the highest standards of excellence, public engagement with diverse and excellent art, lifelong learning in the arts, and the strengthening of communities through the arts. The 817 recommended NEA grants total $26.3 million and span 13 artistic disciplines and fields. Applications were reviewed by panels of outside experts convened by NEA staff and each project was judged on its artistic excellence and artistic merit.

 

For a complete listing of projects recommended for Art Works grant support, please visit the NEA website at www.arts.gov.

]]> http://www.designinpublic.org/1518/feed/ 0 Design in Public Announces New Associate Director Katherine Wimble http://www.designinpublic.org/design-in-public-announces-new-associate-director-katherine-wimble/ http://www.designinpublic.org/design-in-public-announces-new-associate-director-katherine-wimble/#comments Mon, 25 Feb 2013 17:46:42 +0000 dipadmin http://www.designinpublic.org/?p=1429 Read more]]> For Immediate Release: Seattle – February 14, 2013 –  Design in Public, a non-profit strategic initiative of AIA Seattle, welcomes Katherine Wimble as its new Associate Director. Katherine will be working to further Design in Public’s mission of advancing Seattle’s livability through design. Her work over the next year will focus on a theme of Design in Health, through programs including a Design in Health Summit, a design competition, and the annual Seattle Design Festival.

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Katherine brings a background of landscape urbanism, fine art, graphic design, and environmental sciences to a passion for sensitive design for people in public space. Prior to joining Design in Public, Katherine worked on a wide variety of urban design projects as a Landscape and Communications Designer at Hapa Collaborative in Vancouver, BC. Her Master’s degree education in Landscape Architecture at the University of Washington included a four-month internship with world-renowned urban quality consultants Gehl Architects in Copenhagen, Denmark. Prior to earning an MLA, she worked as a Visual Communications Manager and Executive Assistant at Peace X Peace, a Washington, DC-based non-profit organization connecting women peace-builders around the world.

Katherine also holds a Post Baccalaureate Graduate Degree in Painting from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago and a B.Sc. in Forestry and Wildlife Resources from Virginia Tech. She has served as a Peace Corps volunteer working with environmental NGOs in Krakow, Poland and as an Animal Behavior Enrichment volunteer at the Auckland Zoo in New Zealand. Katherine also creates site-specific, public art installations as a founding member of The Unearth Collective.

EDITOR’S NOTE: Hi-res image is available upon request.  Contact Kimber Leblicq at kleblicq@aiaseattle.org or (206) 448-4938 ext. 103.

]]> http://www.designinpublic.org/design-in-public-announces-new-associate-director-katherine-wimble/feed/ 0 Media clips 08/2012-02/2013 http://www.designinpublic.org/media-clips-082012-022013/ http://www.designinpublic.org/media-clips-082012-022013/#comments Sun, 30 Sep 2012 01:38:42 +0000 dipadmin http://www.designinpublic.org/?p=1410 Read more]]> In Seattle Business magazine, Anne Traver uses Seattle Design Festival as an opportunity to discuss the relationship between business and design in her article “Design as Intangible: Changes at the Intersection of Design and Business”.

KPLU‘s Jennifer Wing does a piece about “upcycling” that mentions Seattle Design Festival and quotes Design in Public’s Executive Director, Lisa Richmond.

Seattle Design Festival is mentioned in an article about the old 520 bridge pontoons’ design competition on Komo News.

Downtown Seattle writes about the Design in Public’s Seattle Design Festival on their news pages.

The band, Three for T, created a Facebook event to advertise their gig at the Seattle Design Festival.

The Stranger lists showtimes and reviews for the films shown at the Seattle Design Festival.

Seattle Design Festival is mentioned in a Seattle Times article about movies. Published on September 20, 2012, written by Moira Macdonald

Home & Decoration blog posted about Seattle Design Festival.

Seattle Design Festival mentioned on Curbed.

Seattle Post Intelligencer included Seattle Design Festival’s Happy Hour on their weekend list of things to do.

Seattle Design Festival included on Alaska Business Monthly events.

Article titled “Top 5 Seattle Design Festival Events” by Seth Sommerfield published on Seattle Met.

Adam Bejan Parast writes about Seattle Design Festival events on the Seattle Transit Blog.

Seattle Design Festival listed as an event on KiroTV.com

Daily Journal of Commerce wrote an article about the Seattle Design Festival.

Seattle Design Festival included in the “Things to Do This Week” on About.com for Seattle/Tacoma.

Information about Seattle Design Festival included on the same page as an architecture article on The Seattle Times. 

The Seattle Design Festival’s Design Block/John Street is listed on Wherevent.

Artefact, an award-winning technology product design company, included on article on their website, “Artifact Partners with Seattle Design Festival For Exciting Design ‘Super Weekend’”. 

Oklahoma’s News On 6 included an article on their website titled “Seattle Gets Ready for Design ‘Super Weekend’ with Seattle Design Festival”.

“Seattle Gets Ready for Design ‘Super Weekend’ with Seattle Design Festival” article published on Seattle Post Intelligencer website. 

Bustler announced the Seattle Design Jam: Street Furniture Design Competition.

Alison Furuto writes about Seattle Design Festival and Design in Public for ArchDaily.

]]> http://www.designinpublic.org/media-clips-082012-022013/feed/ 0 Design in Public and Seattle Design Festival in Seattle magazine http://www.designinpublic.org/design-in-public-and-seattle-design-festival-in-seattle-magazine/ http://www.designinpublic.org/design-in-public-and-seattle-design-festival-in-seattle-magazine/#comments Wed, 29 Aug 2012 12:00:49 +0000 dipadmin http://www.designinpublic.org/?p=1237 Both Design in Public and the Seattle Design Festival are featured in an article in the print version of Seattle magazine (page 30) and its online version: http://seattlemag.com/article/seattle-design-festival-brings-artful-ideas-streets

]]> http://www.designinpublic.org/design-in-public-and-seattle-design-festival-in-seattle-magazine/feed/ 0 City Arts mention http://www.designinpublic.org/city-arts-mention/ http://www.designinpublic.org/city-arts-mention/#comments Tue, 28 Aug 2012 12:00:12 +0000 dipadmin http://www.designinpublic.org/?p=1235 City Arts magazine mentions the Design in Public fundraiser at Western Bridge, along with the upcoming Seattle Design Festival (page 14), and includes a photo of Graypants’ bar and lighting installation at the August 3 event.

]]> http://www.designinpublic.org/city-arts-mention/feed/ 0 Design in Public Press Release http://www.designinpublic.org/design-in-public-press-release/ http://www.designinpublic.org/design-in-public-press-release/#comments Tue, 07 Aug 2012 05:00:44 +0000 dipadmin http://www.designinpublic.org/?p=1219 New nonprofit Design in Public officially announced in press release. Download press release

]]> http://www.designinpublic.org/design-in-public-press-release/feed/ 0 Good Design’s Day in the Sun http://www.designinpublic.org/good-designs-day-in-the-sun/ http://www.designinpublic.org/good-designs-day-in-the-sun/#comments Fri, 23 Sep 2011 21:24:00 +0000 dipadmin http://www.seattledesignfestival.org/?p=665 The Puget Sound Business Journal publishes a contributed article by Bob Hull, Festival Honorary Co-Chair: “Good Design’s Day in the Sun.” (Content available to subscribers.)

]]> http://www.designinpublic.org/good-designs-day-in-the-sun/feed/ 0 September 22, 2011 http://www.designinpublic.org/september-22-2011/ http://www.designinpublic.org/september-22-2011/#comments Thu, 22 Sep 2011 21:21:42 +0000 dipadmin http://www.seattledesignfestival.org/?p=661 Read more]]> Crosscut’s article Seattle’s fall art scene delves into design notes how the Festival “mark[s] not the end of a list but the beginning of many more art and design events in the greater Seattle area.”

The Seattlest includes August de los Reyes’ talk in their “Can’t Miss It” Thursday post, an event they say is “right on target” in terms of the Festival’s goal in demonstrating that “design is an active force that solves problems, contributes to innovation, and improves our lives.”

The UW Department of Architecture blog again highlights some Festival films in their An Autumn Weekend in Seattle blog entry.

The Seattle Times ‘Movies’ section mentions a few of the many excellent architecture and design films offered by the Festival.

]]> http://www.designinpublic.org/september-22-2011/feed/ 0 Tours galore including net zero energy zHome, Brightwater, Seattle Design Festival http://www.designinpublic.org/tours-galore-including-net-zero-energy-zhome-brightwater-seattle-design-festival/ http://www.designinpublic.org/tours-galore-including-net-zero-energy-zhome-brightwater-seattle-design-festival/#comments Wed, 21 Sep 2011 21:20:52 +0000 dipadmin http://www.seattledesignfestival.org/?p=659 DJC Green Building Blog highlights the Brightwater grand opening celebration as an event “not to miss” in their recent blog post Tours galore including net zero energy zHome, Brightwater, Seattle Design Festival.

]]> http://www.designinpublic.org/tours-galore-including-net-zero-energy-zhome-brightwater-seattle-design-festival/feed/ 0 September 20, 2011 http://www.designinpublic.org/september-20-2011/ http://www.designinpublic.org/september-20-2011/#comments Tue, 20 Sep 2011 21:19:53 +0000 dipadmin http://www.seattledesignfestival.org/?p=657 Seattle real estate blog Urbnlivn showcases some Seattle Design Festival events in Our Picks for the Seattle Design Festival.

PopCap talks about their Design Marks sonotube and the Belltown P-Patch in which it resides in A Pillar of our Community, an entry on their company blog.

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