Today’s Philly 101 video spotlights Penny Balkin Bach, Executive Director of the Association For Public Art (formerly known as the Fairmount Park Art Association).
The Association for Public Art is the nation’s first private, nonprofit organization dedicated to integrating public art and urban planning. It was founded in 1872, but today is more active than ever in commissioning, preserving and promoting public art in Philadelphia.
Watch the quick video above to meet Penny, see just a sampling of some of the city’s most treasured pieces of public art, and learn what she wishes more people knew about in Philadelphia.
Bonus: get pumped for the Association For Public Art’s exciting fall project, Open Air, a world premiere sky-high interactive public art experience over the Benjamin Franklin Parkway.
Association For Public Art
www.associationforpublicart.org
Museum Without Walls
www.museumwithoutwallsaudio.org
