Code,400013
Subject,"Penny Rakoff, artist"
Date,12/11/2005
Interviewer,
Abstract,"In this 2005 interview, Penny Rakoff, currently (2010) a Professor of Art at Akron University, discusses her role in creating public art for the Cleveland Gateway Project of the early 1990s.  Ms. Rakoff talks as an artist about the value of public art in an urban environment.  She also discusses the research and other work that she did in preparation of two art projects she collaborated upon for Gateway.  One of her projects was the ""Market Place/Meeting Place"" a concrete bench with ceramic tiles containing images from the historic Central Market which stood on the spot where the Gateway sports complex is now located.  The other piece of art she discusses is a pocket park created by the curvature of Huron Road near its intersection with Prospect Avenue, near the Osborn Building."
Special Notes,"poor sound quality, public art, memory bench, warehouse district, gateway complex"
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0,researching the site's history
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2,central market
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5,public art
6,making the memory bench
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10,[9:50] researching the site's history
11,"huron rd. ""pocket park"""
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14,"""cleveland could use more color…"""
15,"downtown living: ""I don't mind the gentrification.  That actually serves a purpose"""
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17,clarifications
18,public art: abstract vs. historical
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,track two:
0,controversial public art project in minneapolis
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2,public reaction and usage of the memory bench
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4,"""layers"" of history at each site"
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7,working at a mid-sized state university
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9,cleveland support for the arts
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11,gateway landscaping and public art
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13,"Penny Rakoff, Dec. 11th 2005, end"
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