One thing I love about public art is that it has inherently interactive qualities. I recently witnessed this firsthand while helping with a local public art project painting flowerpots in the downtown area of a nearby city. Over the course of the several hours I was there painting, I had many interactions with various people; mostly passersby and people chatting with me while stopped at the traffic light. 

The very nature of art being in public space allows for, and even invites interactions, simply because it’s in a space that everyone feels part of. It’s the reason I think public art has the potential to be so powerful; The act of making public art is something that people also feel able to be part of, simply because it is in that shared space.  

If you’d like to take a peek at what I was working on, you can check it out over here!