Whois & Analysis for chicagopublicartgroup.org

Chicago Public Art Group (originally, Chicago Mural Group) is a non profit cultural organization in Chicago that organizes and promotes creation of community public art.

The Group was founded in 1971 and has been involved in the creation of hundreds of artworks in and around the city.

Today its "core artists" provide artistic leadership.

The Group supports the production of public murals, mosaics, sculptures and space designs in collaboration with community participants.

CPAG also educates artists and the public about the history and possibilities of collaborative public art.

Several of its recent works have been large bricolage mosaics in city underpasses.

Public art is art in any media that has been planned and executed with the intention of being staged in the physical public domain, usually outside and accessible to all.

Public art is significant within the art world, amongst curators, commissioning bodies and practitioners of public art, to whom it signifies a working practice of site specificity, community involvement and collaboration.

Public art may include any art which is exhibited in a public space including publicly accessible buildings, but often it is not that simple.

Rather, the relationship between the content and audience, what the art is saying and to whom, is just as important if not more important than its physical location.

A mosaic is a piece of art or image made from the assemblage of small pieces of colored glass, stone, or other materials.

It is often used in decorative art or as interior decoration.

Most mosaics are made of small, flat, roughly square, pieces of stone or glass of different colors, known as tesserae.

Some, especially floor mosaics, are made of small rounded pieces of stone, and called "pebble mosaics".

Others are made of other materials.