Public Art and Community

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Public artwork is one medium through which such community can be encouraged and developed. Creative spaces and pieces exhibited in public spaces can provide disparate groups with a sense of shared community that can bind them closer together despite differences. The paper shows that one such example of public artwork that inspires a sense of community is Eloy Torrez's "Generacion tras Generacion".

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"Creative public artwork has a great potential to provide a sense of community to regions in the United States that are increasingly becoming ethically and culturally diverse. The differences in culture are often so dramatic that it is noticeable from house to house and from block to block. Major cities in the United States are largely composed of various cultural and ethnic groups. Finding a strong sense of singular American community is a real challenge. Public artwork, however, is one medium through which such community can be encouraged and developed. Creative spaces and pieces exhibited in public spaces can provide disparate groups with a sense of shared community that can bind them closer together despite differences. One such example of public artwork that inspires a sense of community is Eloy Torrez's "Generacion tras generacion.""

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