The Art in Public Places Panel meets the first Monday of each month at 6:00 p.m. in Room 2016 at City Hall (301 W. Second Street).

CURRENT PANELISTS

Chair

Beatrice Thomas, Artist, Arts Administrator

Beatrice Thomas is an exhibiting fiber artist and designer. Ms. Thomas received her bachelor’s degree from Hampshire College and a Masters of Fine Arts from The University of Texas, where she participated in the Land Arts of the American West program. She has worked in a variety of curatorial, educational and community arts related positions with the City of Austin, Austin Community College and Flatbed Press Gallery. Ms. Thomas participates regularly as an arts juror and panelist and speaker on a range of arts related topics, most currently arts, economics and the creative class. Her career in the visual arts includes chairing the Austin Art and Public Places Panel and serving as Program Manager of First Night Austin, an interdisciplinary, urban, arts festival for the City of Austin. She is dedicated to integrating exceptional art into meaningful public experience.

Ryan Thompson,Designer


Jennifer Chenoweth, Artist




Risa Puleo, Arts Administrator

Risa Puleo is the Assistant Curator of American and Contemporary Art at the Blanton Museum of Art at the University of Texas at Austin. In addition to running her own gallery, The Donkey Show, out of her home in East Austin, she has worked at various art organizations across Texas inlcuding testsite, Artlies: A Texas Art Journal, Blue Star Art Space and The Station. She received her Master¹s degree from the Center for Curatorial Studies at Bard College.

Murray Legge, Architect, Artist

Murray Legge, a licensed architect, is a graduate of the Cooper Union School of Architecture in New York City. Recipient of the 2006 AIA Austin Young Architectural Professional Award his work ranges from architecture and landscape design to public art. Mr. Legge has won many competitions and design awards including local, state and national AIA (American Institute of Architects) awards for his design work. Winner of the prestigious Lyceum Fellowship he was also finalist (twice) in Van Alen Institute competitions including the Paris Prize. For the past 10 years, he has been based in Austin, Texas practicing as design and project architect with the firm LZT Architects, Inc. His work at LZTA includes the design and management of several multi-use sustainable urban buildings, such as, Austin Resource Center for the Homeless (ARCH) and the Donald Haynes Performing Arts Center currently under construction. The recently completed ARCH project was awarded a National AIA award for green building and has been the subject of several recent articles and seminars. The Austin American Statesman's architecture critic, in her recent review, called the building "...a model of public architecture". His work has appeared in Architectural Record, Art in America, Texas Architect, The Journal of Architectural Education and profiled in the Austin American Statesman and Houston Chronicle. Mr. Legge has taught workshops, lectured and been visiting critic and lecturer at the University of Texas at Austin.

Mr. Legge also co-founded the multi-disciplinary group, Legge Lewis Legge, based in Austin and New York which focuses on large-scale public art installations, one of which, designed for Austin's Central Forensics Laboratory, appeared in Art in Americas 2004 Public Art in Review. Legge Lewis Legge was the recipient of a 2006 Texas Society of Architects design award for Cup City, a temporary interactive lounge, honorable mention in the international design competition for the flight 93 memorial and finalist in the Boston Logan Airport 9/11 memorial competition. Legge Lewis Legge has been recently commissioned to design a public urban landscape in Boston through grants from the New England Foundation for the Arts, National Parks Service and the City of Boston. Mr. Legge has taught workshops, lectured and been visiting critic and lecturer at the University of Texas at Austin.


Lynn Osgood, Landscape Designer and Planner

Irene Roderick, Executive Assistant to the Chair, Department of Art & Art History Staff, University of Texas, Austin

Irene Roderick serves as Executive Assistant to the Chair in administrative budget matters of faculty salaries, teaching assistants, classified staff, wages, and oversees other departmental budget areas. She processes faculty, assistant instructor, and classified personnel appointments as well as all faculty promotion files and is the liaison to the Office of Human Resources. She also assists in the preparation of the official course schedules for the department as well as processes all changes relating to courses. She serves as secretary to the department’s Executive Committee. Irene received her B.F.A. from the University of Texas in 1999 and continued her education at the California Institute of the Arts, earning her M.F.A. in painting in 2001.

ART IN PUBLIC PLACES PANEL APPLICATION
In addition to regular monthly meetings, AIPP Panel members attend many AIPP sponsored events, such as artwork dedication ceremonies, exhibition openings, lectures, tours of potential public art sites, project information meetings, and public hearings, to the extent possible. AIPP Panel members may serve as jurors for AIPP projects. AIPP Panelists act as representatives of the AIPP program and look for opportunities to share information with their colleagues regarding public art commissions and recruit qualified artists, jurors and panelists to participate in the program.

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