At the Arts and Business Council’s Annual Awards Luncheon on April 29, 2011, the Fairmount Park Art Association received the PNC Arts Alive Award for Arts Innovation in Honor of Peggy Amsterdam – a new award that acknowledges an arts organization that has demonstrated an innovative approach to increasing arts access and engagement.
Public art is an ideal introductory cultural experience because it is accessible “on the street”, free to all, and diverse in content.
The award recognizes the Art Association’s Museum Without Walls™: AUDIO program, designed to reach culture seekers as well as non-traditional arts audiences by making engagement with public art a fascinating and rewarding experience.
Philadelphia has one of the most important collections of public art in the United States, but it often goes unnoticed. Public art is one of our city’s most overlooked and underappreciated cultural assets – but the Fairmount Park Art Association’s Museum Without Walls™: AUDIO program has changed all of that by providing access to works of art always on view, but often unobserved. Public art is an ideal introductory cultural experience because it is accessible “on the street”, free to all, and diverse in content. It can be enjoyed spontaneously, alone or in groups, and by residents and tourists alike.
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