After going offline in 2019, ArtAround relaunches today as a brand new responsive web application, complete with a new website, new ways to browse the map, and our first educational resources.
ArtAround’s homepage has always been the map, but with our growing community of Ambassadors and meticulously organized tag sets, we needed a more robust way to share how the map is organized. So now, in addition to our mapping platform, we also have this website — which contains lists of links to organized tag sets, download access to our PDF publications, and an Ambassador leaderboard of our contributing art-finders across the U.S. (Join here!)
Alongside the website is our new original mapping platform at map.artaround.org. Here, you can sort artworks by your current location or by what was mostly recently added to the map. You can also conduct multi-layered searches across the database to see all yellow Murals or all 1970s Sculpture. With new technology there are bound to be some hiccups, so if you notice anything that’s not working as expected, we’d love to hear your thoughts, feedback, or any bugs you find via email at testing@artaround.org.
We’re using our new website to make the depth of the map tangible. Because each artwork is carefully tagged according to its content, installation location, and other affiliations, all related artworks on the map are interconnected in one way or another:
MAP
Guides
Guides are grouped sets of tags with links to each individual tag on the map, so you can browse artworks by color, decade, and place — with more guides coming soon!
Collections
Collections are custom tags made for Ambassadors or for sponsored archivization efforts, like the Pratt Brooklyn Sculpture Garden, which we received a small grant to map back in 2017.
Publications
Printed and digital publications, in the form of PDF maps and collection reports, allow us to extend ArtAround’s reach into the physical world, and provide an opportunity to look critically at our archivization efforts. While our PDF maps simply offer information on a new collection of public art, reports allow for a more in-depth look at who creates the art in our public spaces and who is represented by it.
COMMUNITY
Partners
You can access the public artworks from all the festivals we’ve aggregated—which so far include the Vancouver Mural Festival, ArtsRepublic in Jacksonville Florida, Points de Vue in France, and Parees Fest in Spain—on the new Partners page.
Ambassadors
In the community section of the website, you’ll also find the new Ambassadors page, which lays out how our art-mapping group works, how you can join, and includes links to each Ambassadors’ uploads on the map.
The Anchor Club
If you’re willing to donate monthly to ArtAround—in any amount—the consistency of that commitment exists at the very core of our community art project because it actively enables us to exist. These monthly donations make ArtAround possible, and now, anyone who signs up to donate monthly is automatically a member of the newly-created Anchor Club.
Sign up to give a recurring monthly donation in any amount through our Fractured Atlas page and we’ll send you a limited edition arrow pin featured in the image above—these are reserved solely for Anchor Club members.
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