Council
Members
The following candidates have been elected to serve on the PAN Council.
- David Allen, Director, Metro Arts-in-Transit, St. Louis, MO
- Porter Arneill, Public Art Administrator, Kansas City, MO
- Penny Balkin Bach, Executive Director, Fairmount Park Art Association, Philadelphia, PA
- Charlotte Cohen, Regional Fine Arts Officer, General Service Administration, New York City
- Barbara Goldstein, Public Art Director, City of San Jose Office of Cultural Affairs, San Jose, CA
- Glenn Harper, Editor, Sculpture Magazine, Washington, DC
- John Haworth, Americans for the Arts Board Liaison, New York City
- Kendal Henry, Public Art Consultant and Artist, New York City
- Janet Kagan, Principal, Percent for Art Collaborative, Chapel Hill, NC
- Peggy Kendellen, Public Art Manager, Regional Arts & Cultural Council, Portland, OR
- Larry Kirkland, Artist, Washington, DC
- Pallas Lombardi, Program Manager, Charlotte Area Arts-in-Transit, Charlotte, NC
- Martha Peters, Public Art Director, Fort Worth, TX
- Constance White, Art Program Manager, San Diego International Airport, San Diego, CA
- Norie Sato, Artist, Seattle, WA
David Allen
David Allen has been a public art program administrator for more than 20 years. He is currently director of arts in transit for the City of St. Louis, MO. In this position, Allen oversees the city’s public art program, a fleet of art buses, and a continuing series of temporary art installations. Prior to his position in St. Louis, Allen managed the Art & Design program for the award-winning Hiawatha Line in Minneapolis. This five-year project commissioned artists for 17 uniquely designed light rail stations, the single largest public art initiative in Minnesota’s history. In 1986, Allen was hired by the city of San Jose to implement its newly established percent-for-art policy. In the 13 years he managed the program, it grew to a two-percent-for-art program, as the city and its Redevelopment Agency undertook one of the largest urban development programs in the nation. While with the city of San Jose, Allen created the Public Artist Training Program, one of the first of its kind to specifically target local artists interested in expanding into the field of public art. Allen remains an advocate for fair and reasonable practices in the selection and commissioning of artists and for maintaining systems that encourage artists to conceive and execute their best work.
Porter Arneill
Porter Arneill currently serves as the executive director and public art administrator for the Kansas City Municipal Art Commission in Kansas City, MO. He is also a member of the adjunct faculty for the Kansas City Art Institute. Previous to this position, Arneill served as the director of public art and education for the Regional Arts Commission in St. Louis, MO, 1997–2002. During this time in St. Louis, he also served as the director of The People Project, a $1 million, self-supporting, 12-county, bi-state temporary public art event spawned by the Zurich and Chicago Cow Parades. From 1993–1997, he was the curator of education for Laumeier Sculpture Park in St. Louis. Arneill serves on the advisory board for Kansas City Volunteer Lawyers for the Arts. He has lectured about public art throughout the country. Arneill received an M.F.A. from the Massachusetts College of Fine Arts and has exhibited his work in solo and group exhibitions throughout the country.
Penny Balkin Bach is executive director of the Fairmount Park Art Association, the nation's first private, nonprofit public art organization, chartered in 1872 and dedicated to the integration of public art and urban planning. Bach is a noted curator, writer, cultural observer, and educator who provides artistic direction for the organization. Her current activities include the exploration of innovative approaches to public art and its audiences, the creation of opportunities for new works by artists and design professionals, and the advocacy and promotion of responsible stewardship of public art. Bach works with civic leaders, city agencies, community groups, and cultural organizations. Bach wrote on private funding for public art in Public Art by the Book, published by Americans for the Arts. She is an essayist and editor of New•Land•Marks: Public Art, Community, and the Meaning of Place, and is responsible for developing the Fairmount Park Art Association’s pioneering Form and Function program and its current New•Land•Marks initiative. She led a movement to preserve and protect Philadelphia's outdoor sculpture, a model that has been adopted throughout the nation. Bach has been instrumental in lighting Philadelphia’s outdoor sculpture and has guided a comprehensive interpretive program for public art in Philadelphia.
Charlotte Cohen is an arts administrator with many years of experience working in the field of public art. Currently, she is a fine arts officer with the U.S. General Services Administration (GSA), managing new commissions and the collection in the New York region. Prior to joining GSA in 2005, Cohen directed the New York City Percent for Art Program for nine years. She has also worked for the Smithsonian Institution Traveling Exhibition Service in Washington, DC, and was program director at Maryland Art Place, a nonprofit contemporary art center in Baltimore. Cohen has lectured about public art nationally and internationally. She curated a team of artists and public art experts to travel to different cities in Russia to lecture and set up projects, and she established the Public Art in Public Spaces program at the University of Belgrade in Serbia. Cohen has served on juries and panels across the United States, and is an adjunct faculty member at New York University’s master's program in visual arts administration.
Barbara Goldstein
Barbara Goldstein is the public art director for the City of San Jose Office of Cultural Affairs and the editor of Public Art by the Book, a primer recently published by Americans for the Arts and the University of Washington Press. Prior to her work in San Jose, Goldstein was public art director for the City of Seattle. Goldstein has worked as a cultural planner, architectural and art critic, editor, and publisher. From 1989–1993, she was director of design review and cultural planning for the Los Angeles Department of Cultural Affairs. From 1980–1985, she edited and published Arts + Architecture magazine. She has written for art and architecture magazines both nationally and internationally and has lectured on public art throughout the United States, and in Canada, Japan, China, and Taipei.
Glenn Harper
Glenn Harper, editor of Sculpture Magazine since April 1996, was formerly editor of Art Papers Magazine, a regionally based, nationally distributed contemporary arts magazine. Harper has written for Aperture, Artforum, Public Art Review, On View, Afterimage, and for books and catalogs on the works of artists John Van Alstine, Athena Tacha, and others. He is the editor of Interventions and Provocations: Conversations on Art, Culture, and Resistance, a collection of interviews with contemporary artists published by the State University of New York Press in 1998. He earned a Ph.D. in the interdisciplinary Humanities Program of Florida State University and has served on peer review panels for the National Endowment for the Arts and other public agencies. His office is in Washington, DC.
John Haworth
John Haworth is the director of public programs for the National Museum of the American Indian, Smithsonian Institute, at the George Gustav Heye Center in New York City. In addition to managing public programs, exhibitions, and outreach projects, he collaborated with Native communities on a broad range of public programs and special projects, and participates in establishing overall policy and direction for the Museum. Prior to his post at the Museum, he served as assistant commissioner for Cultural Institutions at the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs, and was on the Arts Education faculty teaching arts management and cultural policy courses for 14 years at New York University. He holds an M.B.A. from Columbia University, where he was also designated as a Revson Fellow on the Future of New York City in 1979. John Haworth currently serves on the Board of Directors of Americans for the Arts.
Kendal Henry
Kendal Henry is a public art consultant and artist living in New York City. He formerly served as a manager of arts programs at the MTA Arts for Transit Program. During that time, he oversaw the fabrication and installation of 25 permanent art projects, served as a member of the MTA’s in-house design team, produced temporary exhibitions at Grand Central Terminal, and produced the MTA’s award-winning post program. Previous to his experience at the MTA, he served as a project manager at the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs’ Percent for Art Program for four years. He is also an experienced curator, whose projects include the Barcardi Limited Biennial 2004 at the Bermuda National Gallery; Takashi Murakami: Wink which was presented at Grand Central Terminal in 2001; and Arts for Transit: A Museum Underground, which was presented at the New York Institute for Technology in 2004. He graduated from the School of Visual Arts with a B.F.A. in 1992.
Janet Kagan
Janet Kagan is a founding principal of the Percent for Art Collaborative, an interdisciplinary research and consulting group that brings together artists, government representatives, public art administrators, urban planners, historians, architects, and landscape designers to initiate and refine percent-for-art policies, projects, and programs. Since 2002, she has served on the board of the Chapel Hill Public Arts Commission as its chair, as director of artist residencies, and as chair of the Percent for Art program. She is currently guiding the development of a Public and Civic Art Contextual Plan for the Town of Chapel Hill, which integrates public art into the Town's Comprehensive Plan and land use policies while increasing residents' understanding of public art and creating opportunities for artists to shape the natural and built environment. She also serves on the boards of several nonprofit arts organizations; frequently participates on artist selection panels and juries; and pursues critical discourse about public art and scholarship in philosophy of art and aesthetics. Kagan has more than 30 years of professional experience in communications, marketing, strategic planning, and project management collaborating with design teams and communities. She has held positions in city government, local and statewide nonprofit organizations, and architectural and interpretive design firms. Kagan holds an M.B.A. from Simmons College School of Management and an M.A. in philosophy of art from Duke University.
Peggy Kendellen has worked in the public art field for nearly 15 years. Among her responsibilities are managing site-specific and temporary public art projects, launching and sustaining a Public Art Murals Program, acquisitions of works on paper for the Visual Chronicle of Portland, and creating and managing a public art residency program. She has conducted numerous professional development workshops for artists and has spoken locally, regionally, and nationally on public art issues. Kendellen has written several articles/chapters on public art, most recently co-authoring a chapter on maintenance in Barbara Goldstein's Public Art By the Book, and a chapter on temporary public art, to be part of an upcoming book, The Practice of Public Art (working title) to be published by Routledge Press in 2008. Kendellen earned her B.F.A. and M.A. in art from the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee and is a recipient of an NEA Midwest Artists Fellowship. Her artwork is included in the collections of Neiman Marcus, Northwest Mutual Life Insurance, and Moritex USA in Tokyo. Her range of artworld related experiences—portfolio preparation, creating/exhibiting/selling art, teaching, participating in jury processes, public art management—have provided her with a rich perspective of multiple aspects of the creative life.
Larry Kirkland has collaborated with design professionals and community leaders for more than 30 years to create meaningful places throughout the United States and abroad. Recent public artworks have been installed at the Federal Courthouse in Sacramento, CA; Pennsylvania Station in New York City; Central Station in Hong Kong; the California Museum of Science in Los Angeles, CA; and the American Red Cross Headquarters and the National Academies of Science, both in Washington, DC. Kirkland has received a fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts and been honored as a Distinguished Alumni at his alma mater. He has served on the Peer Review Panel for the U.S. General Services Administration, Design Excellence, Art-in-Architecture Program. He holds an undergraduate degree from Oregon State University and a M.F.A from the University of Kansas, both degrees with honors.
Pallas Lombardi
In 2001, Pallas Lombardi moved to Charlotte, NC, from Cambridge, MA, where she had been a public art administrator for two decades. Charlotte’s McColl Center for Visual Arts hired Lombardi to direct their visual artists’ residency and exhibition program. Lombardi was lured from the center in 2003 by the Charlotte Area Transit System to build its Public Art-in-Transit Program. Throughout the '80s, Lombardi successfully directed the Cambridge Arts Council and Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority’s nationally funded, award-winning, public art-in-transit program, Arts On The Line. Subsequently, she directed the Cambridge Arts Council’s One Percent for Art Program and in 1991 became executive director of the Cambridge Arts Council, serving in the position until her move to the Southeast. In addition to her contributions to the field of public art and her successful directorship of the Cambridge Arts Council, Lombardi has served on numerous visual art selection panels, including the National Endowment for the Arts; organized national and international public art forums, conferences, and symposia; lectured on public art and arts administration; and produced visual art exhibitions. Lombardi earned a B.A., with honors, from the State University of New York at Albany and her master’s degree from Goddard College in Plainfield, VT.
Martha Peters
Enjoying her fifteenth year in the field, Martha Peters currently serves as public art director with the Arts Council of Fort Worth & Tarrant County, TX. She manages the municipal Fort Worth Public Art program, funded by two-percent budgets based upon capital improvement project budgets and annual Water Department capital expenditures. Since her appointment in July 2003, Peters has successfully developed comprehensive plans for both funding sources that the City Council has adopted. Peters has been integral in the completion of major projects at the Fort Worth Convention Center and facilitating current, large-scale projects for downtown—a new tollway and the city’s park system. Her 2004 professional development series for artists, On Making Public Art, was featured in Public Art by the Book, edited by Barbara Goldstein. In her previous position as administrator of the City of Austin’s Art in Public Places program (1991–2003), Peters oversaw nearly 100 public art projects, including the Austin Convention Center and Austin-Bergstrom International Airport. During her tenure, the city council increased public art allocations from 1 percent to 2 percent, and the Art in Public Places program received the Texas Society of Architects’ Citation of Honor for contributions to the built environment.
Constance Y. White
Constance Y. White is Art Program Manager for the San Diego International Airport. Since her appointment in July 2006, she has successfully completed the Airport Art Master Plan, which includes a framework and guidelines for the three components of the Airport Art Program: Temporary and Rotating Exhibits, Performing Arts, and Public Art. In her previous position as Public Art Program Coordinator for the City of Dallas, Office of Cultural Affairs (1997–2006), White managed projects with budget ranging from $3,000 to more than $1 million, many of which where design team collaborations resulting in integration of public art into the city's infrastructure. Arts-based community development and community partnerships were important to the success of the many projects she has managed. White has served as a panel member for Mid-America Arts Alliance/FORECAST among others. She holds a B.F.A. in art history from Southern Methodist University and is an exhibiting artist.
Norie Sato
Norie Sato is an artist living in Seattle, whose artwork for public places during the past 20 years has incorporated individual, collaborative, and design team work and planning projects. She works from context-driven ideas first and then finds the appropriate form and materials. Sato‘s work includes projects in Miami; Tempe and Scottsdale, AZ; Madison, WI; Portland, OR; Ames and Ankeny, IA; Salt Lake City, UT; Orange County, CA; and the Seattle area and encompasses transit, libraries, universities, infrastructure, airports, and other civic structures. Her work has included sculpture, glass, terrazzo floors, integrated design work, landscape, video, and light. She strives to add meaning and human touch to the built environment through her work and to consider edges, transitions, and connections as important as the center. As a board member of College Art Association, she helped develop more artist-centric events and programs for their annual conference and advocated for more recognition of the artist’s unique role within the organization. She has taught workshops and residencies in a variety of media and issues, and has served on numerous other boards, and various grant and selection panels. She also helped to craft policies for Seattle’s seminal public art program in the 1970s as a member of the Seattle Arts Commission.