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Public Art in Residency Program (PAIR)
The Public Art in Residence Program is designed to develop meaningful connections between the community, artists, and the process of creating art. The PAIR program is an outgrowth of Cary Visual Art's Long Range Plan and the organization's mission to "promote, inspire, encourage, and support visual art for uplifting the human spirit in the Cary community". CVA's Long Range Plan calls for a residency program as a strategy to achieve the goal of engaging the community in a variety of interactive public art experiences, with the objective of encouraging community understanding and involvement in the public art process.
A traditional artist residency provides artists with time and space to work alone in a studio on the pursuit of their artistic endeavors. A public artist residency takes place outside of the private studio environment, and the artist and the public develop and pursue a collective artistic endeavor. Many people were involved in the planning of this PAIR program. A diverse committee was created with representation from arts professionals, artist, community leaders, schools, the CVA Board of Directors, and CVA committees. Consultant Renee Piechocki worked with the Artist Residency Steering Committee who met from October 2002 to February 2003. The committee studied residency program models nationwide, discussed and examined program elements, and developed the infrastructure for a residency program that would be successful within Cary's particular context, while embracing professional standards in the public art field. The planning process was funded by a grant received from the Goodnight Educational Foundation.
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