text: COPA Announces New Arts Series - 2012 - LouisvilleKy.gov
  COPA Announces New Arts Series
  Mayor Greg Fischer and the Louisville Commission on Public Art are unveiling the first competition of its inaugural Artist Event Series. "On The Floor: Cultural Producers Compete For Space" invites six teams of artists to an ideas ccompetition, to study and propose public art in two locally important public spaces.
  The artist teams, also called cultural producers, were selected from different fields (video art, conceptual art, performance art, photography, furniture design, architecture and media). They started work in January and were asked "What would you do with public art for this space?" The teams are charged with revealing challenges related to siting art in public spaces and encouraging a playful and investigative environment for creating and witnessing public art. The public spaces being studied are Manslick Road: The Loop Trailhead and Caperton Swamp, both of which are city-owned sites, open to the public, and in places generally not used for public art. Manslick Road is in the southwest area of the city, and Caperton Swamp is in the northeast. Both sites are located in park settings crossed by The Louisville Loop.
  The Commission on Public Art was established in 2010, and is committed to overseeing the implementation and evolution of the Louisville Public Art Master Plan, created in 2009. The Master Plan offers a model in which civic and cultural leaders, city planners and developers, and art professionals come together to advance the importance of public art to the city's artistic, intellectual, and economic life. The Commission advocates for art in spaces accessible to the public, promotes visual art in these spaces, and conserves existing public art. THE TEAMS
  Ross Primmer, Roberto de Leon, Lindsey Stoughton, David Mayo of De Leon & Primmer Architecture Workshop Todd Smith (conceptual and performance artist)
  For more information on the Commission for Public Art and the Artist Series, visit http://www.louisvilleky.gov/economicdevelopment/CommissiononPublicArt/