Pedestrian Art – A Public Sculpture Program in Downtown Wilmington

Creative Wilmington sent this event notice:

Pedestrian Art – Art Everywhere, Everyday, for Everyone

The Pedestrian Art Program is a public sculpture program intended to serve as an economic, cultural, and visual stimulus for New Hanover County region. The non-profit organization, CreativeWilmington, in partnership with the City of Wilmington Downtown Services, and Mayfaire Town Center has selected sites in the Central Business District (CBD) of downtown Wilmington and on Mayfaire Property to make art accessible to the general public.

Sculptures are placed at:

Two on Riverwalk, at the entrances to the scenic walkway along the Cape Fear riverfront

The Historic Post Office on North Front Street

The median strip at Front and Market Street

Bijou Park located on the 200 block of North Front Street

Three at Mayfaire Town Center

I forgot about Creative Wilmington! That’s a problem here — in fact the very problem Creative Wilmington has set out to redress: So many little, good things, all spread out, and not enough big, centralizing things. Like arts groups. CW seems to be thriving as an arts organization for the area, which something I’ve heard transplants say they though there would be more of here (Cause of all the galleries and easy talk about culture?). I think I met the creator of creativewilmington as I was lunching at Roudbabush with a friend and the owners of Art Fuel. Seemed like a nice guy. Ran that photography workshop Tabula Rasa on 17th, now gone, still runs the non-profit Tabula Rasa to which Creative Wilmington proceeds go.