A Public Engagement Forum

Discussions about socially engaged art. Initiated by the Hammer Museum.

David Wilson in Exchange: A Public Engagement Forum

Dec 1, 2016

David Wilson, Arrivals

In 2013, for the SECA Art Award exhibition at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, I installed a framed drawing in the woods, sixteen feet tall by eight feet wide. It lived out in the foggy eucalyptus-thick cliffs above the Golden Gate Bridge for three months as part my show Arrivals…

January Parkos Arnall in Exchange: A Public Engagement Forum

Sep 27, 2016

No one is asking for it: Reflections on ***Multilingüelandia*, a Public Engagement residency with Antena and Antena Los Ángeles, March-May 2016**

No one is asking for it: this is a natural response when questioning policies around…

Claire Ruud in Exchange: A Public Engagement Forum

Jan 22, 2016

Who is engaging whom, and why?

The title of the Hammer’s recent conference on public engagement — ENGAGE MORE NOW! — expresses the…

Consuelo Velasco Montoya in Exchange: A Public Engagement Forum

Jan 5, 2016

Teaching the Practice

I first encountered the Hammer’s Public Engagement program when I convened a panel on alternative curatorial practices…

Courtney Fink in Exchange: A Public Engagement Forum

Dec 15, 2015

Crowding the Conversation

When the Public Engagement program staff at the Hammer invited me to contribute to EXCHANGE, I decided to turn the assignment on its head a bit by creating a platform for a group of people who attended “Engage More Now!” There was a convergence of leading artists, educators, and…