New Interactive Public Art @ Mesa Arts Center > Under-Wraps For Now in Daylight

No, this is not just another noisy construction site for Creative Place Making here in the New Urban DTMesa, starting just days after the local highly-acclaimed installment of the international Pop-Up event Play Me, I'm Yours! with 23 of those of  wildly-imagined pianos now getting moved to satellite locations all over the city.
What's Next? [thinking way ahead to April, dear readers]
Musical Shadows





PHOTO CREDIT: PAUL RAMIREZ


If you were here last year for MAC's Spark! Festival of Creativity - it's taking place this year in about two weeks -  you saw a prototyping of Musical Shadows Interactive work by Daily tous les jours, a studio lab in Montréal, Québec, Canada.
This permanent interactive installation at the North Campus entrance from Main Street is part of many years of support for
Mesa's 21st Century Café Society that is repositioning the Mesa Arts Center campus as an inspiring “third space” for the city by creating a welcoming and interesting environment and gathering place through interactive public art in a setting featuring café tables, food/beverage service, and live performances.

Hey! Sounds great - so, where is all that all the time??
If this is the third place, what is second and first??
See http://www.artplaceamerica.org/grantee/21st-century-caf%C3%A9-society for recent updates, press, and events from this project

Daily tous les jours is an interaction design studio with a focus on participation – empowering people to have a place in the stories that are told around them. They create collective experiences.

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OK, so Mesa Arts Center is the grantee. . . Who's the grantor? and what - bottom-line, please - is the cost?
According to the interactive map of current Capital Improvement Projects CIPs on the City of Mesa website
CP 0347 was awarded by the City Council 19 Jan 2016
Amount: $443,898
Start Date: 01 Feb 2016
Finish Date: 25 March 2016

The generous organization supporting this ArtPlace America. Readers of this blog have seen a number of posts here before. If you need another introduction here it is
ArtPlace America (ArtPlace) is a ten-year collaboration among a number of foundations, federal agencies, and financial institutions that works to position arts and culture as a core sector of comprehensive community planning and development in order to help strengthen the social, physical, and economic fabric of communities.
ArtPlace focuses its work on Creative PlaceMaking, which describes projects in which art plays an intentional and integrated role in place-based community planning and development. This brings artists, arts organizations, and artistic activity into the suite of placemaking strategies pioneered by Jane Jacobs and her colleagues, who believed that community development must be locally informed, human-centric, and holistic.
In practice, this means having arts and culture represented alongside sectors like housing and transportation – with each sector recognized as part of any healthy community; as requiring planning and investment from its community; and as having a responsibility to contribute to its community’s overall future.
In scanning the community planning and development field, we found five types of stakeholders working across ten sectors that, while not comprehensive, capture a majority of work taking place in communities:

It is ArtPlace's goal to demonstrate the unique value add that arts and culture can bring to each of the 50 cells of this matrix.
It is ArtPlace's goal to demonstrate the unique value add that arts and culture can bring to each of the 50 cells of this matrix.