Public Art+
Artist Ed Woodham brought his performance art piece The Keepers to the Penn Station Neighborhood in protest of proposed demolitions that would displace residents and locally owned businesses. Costumed actors pictured here with Lynn Elsworth, Ed Woodham, Samuel Turvey, and Katy Peace. Photo by Paul Takeuchi.
2023: Seven to Save Artist Interventions
In late 2022, the Preservation League of NYS was awarded a Regrowth & Capacity Grant from the New York State Council on the Arts to fund artist commissions in support of the 2022-2023 Seven to Save list. I managed that grant, commissioning local artists to help draw attention to those endangered historic sites in a variety of ways, from public performance art to high-quality photography. See more here.
2016: The Forest Park Forever Artist in Residence Program
From an interview with St. Louis Public Radio, “The public program that culminates each of their individual residencies could be wildly different and that’s really exciting for us. We have photographers and painters that use the park a lot but this is also open to dancers or poets, sculptors --- a range of artistic disciplines, anyone that would be able to integrate Forest Park into their discipline in an interesting and original way.”
As part of a yearlong celebration of its 30th anniversary, I managed Forest Park Forever’s first-ever Artist in Residence Program. Read interviews with the featured artists + find photos of their work: WORK/PLAY, Madeline Marak, and The 442s.
2014-2015: Community Supported Art - St. Louis
“I think people really responded to the idea of having that easy entry point for supporting local artists and experiencing art,” Peace said.
This project, modeled on agricultural CSAs, commissioned local artists to create new work with a guaranteed honorarium and collector to receive their finished product. I ran the CSA for two successful seasons before sunsetting the project.
Author talks
Since 2020, I have organized a virtual book club for the Preservation League of NYS, inviting authors to discuss their books — with a focus on works that explore a sense of place, our built environment, cultural heritage, New York, and other issues that intersect with historic preservation. Below are a selection of programs moderated by me.
