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Marty Pottenger
Marty Pottenger (born March 30, 1952 in Chicago, Illinois) is an American playwright, performance artist and theatre director. Pottenger is a pioneer in the community arts and arts-based civic dialogue movement. Joan Shigekawa, former Acting Chairman for the National Endowment for the Arts, named Pottenger as one of her favorite artists "..''.for her deep engagement with the lives of working people''." Pottenger was a founding member of ''Heresies: A Feminist Publication on Art and Politics''. She was the writer, artistic director, and solo performer of City Water Tunnel #3 a multi-media, Obie-winning play and community art project about the building of New York City Water Tunnel No. 3, the largest (non-defense) public works project in the Western Hemisphere. Pottenger is also the founder and Art At Work (originally Terra Moto Inc.), a national initiative piloted with the City of Portland Maine's departments, unions and elected officials to improve municipal government through str ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Performance Artist
Performance art is an artwork or art exhibition created through actions executed by the artist or other participants. It may be witnessed live or through documentation, spontaneously developed or written, and is traditionally presented to a public in a fine art context in an interdisciplinary mode. Also known as ''artistic action'', it has been developed through the years as a genre of its own in which art is presented live. It had an important and fundamental role in 20th century avant-garde art. It involves four basic elements: time, space, body, and presence of the artist, and the relation between the creator and the public. The actions, generally developed in art galleries and museums, can take place in the street, any kind of setting or space and during any time period. Its goal is to generate a reaction, sometimes with the support of improvisation and a sense of aesthetics. The themes are commonly linked to life experiences of the artist themselves, or the need of denunci ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
