Open House for Street Repair Art Projects

Please join Marcus Young, City Artist in Residence, and his team of artists, Lisa Elias and Brad Kaspari, as they unveil their designs for the City’s Residential Street Vitality Program (RSVP) projects. The project neighborhoods include South East District 1 (Battle Creek/Upper Afton), District 3 West Side (Page/Woodbury), District 11 Hamline Midway (Hewitt/Tatum and Blair/Griggs) and District 14 Macalester Groveland (Davern/Jefferson I and II, and Prior/Goodrich).

The artists will display their designs and talk with neighborhood residents at an informal Open House, Thursday, November 1, 2012 from 5:30 pm to 7:30 pm at The Wellstone Center at Neighborhood House in the Ecolab Fireside Room just off the lobby. 

Neighborhood House is located at 179 Robie Street East, Saint Paul, MN 55107.

The artists set the goal to re-imagine streetscape elements in residential neighborhoods – to give them a visual purpose without losing their important function – and to reveal a place for beauty. The Open House follows up on a series of listening sessions the artists held with neighborhood residents earlier this year to gather inspiration for their work. All residents are encouraged to participate in this public open house, even if they did not attend the listening sessions. Please share this invitation with your neighbors.

The RSVP program’s art is made possible through the City of Saint Paul’s 2009 Public Art Ordinance which dedicates one percent of the cost of eligible projects on City property to public art. The Ordinance embraces the belief that aesthetic and social values should be given equal weight with a project’s functional and economic values, and that public art strengthens public places and promotes Saint Paul’s identity as a livable and creative city and a desirable place to live, work and visit.

Marcus Young, City Artist in Residence, and Regina Flanagan, Public Art Ordinance Administrator, are funded by Public Art Saint Paul, a private non-profit organization.