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Mary Lucking's "Curiouser and curiouser!", a public art installation at the Arizona Science Center

Tonight, local artists Mary Lucking, Bob Adams, and Laurie Lundquist, as well as Los Angeles-based team MERGE Conceptual Design will meet at Scottsdale Museum of Contemporary Art to discuss the triumphs and challenges of creating public artwork.

Artwork in the Phoenix Municipal Art Collection

The series of five presentations includes talks from photographer Mark Klett, poet Alberto Rios, painter Anne Coe, printmakers Joe Segura and Brent Bond, and art historian Betsy Fahlman on the public work now on view at the The Gallery @ City Hall and throughout Phoenix.

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Tye Rabens

The stakes were high at the get-together, which was hosted by Scottsdale Public Art and a task force established in fall 2011 to solidify a "master plan" for the program's future.

Public art consultant Jerry Allen, who has been gathering data, researching, and analyzing Scottsdale's public art program since 2010, presented his 36 recommendations from the 60-plus-page master plan. In his presentation, Allen said that the master plan recommends the public art program should host an annual participatory public art festival in Scottsdale, and that it "should explore . . . incorporation as a separate nonprofit independent of the Cultural Council."

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For "When Fun Collides," Tevin King created a real-time visualizer of the music, performers, and crowd, then digitally projected the images onto the stage home.

Something to Write Home About sent 28 ASU student artists, guided by Herberger Institute for Design and the Arts professors Angela Ellsworth and Gregory Sale, on a mission to explore the meaning of "home" amid two days of music, culture and beer.