The Other Side of Being an Artist: Professional Development with George Bates
When: 11/19/2021
Where: Artworks Trenton
Time: 7-9pm
COME ONE COME ALL. Dear Artsy folks, looking to learn more about the administrative side of being a creative? Come out to hear from artist George Bates about his public art career and how to get more resources and opportunities! Attendees will have the opportunity to network with oother artists after the workshop.
George Bates has created ten (10) permanently & temporarily installed large-scale public art works within the USA and is currently working on another three (3) large-scale public art projects to be permanently installed within the USA over the next few years.
His public art projects for the NYC Metropolitan Transportation Authority-Arts & Design program can be
seen at the 36th Street, Rockaway, Queens and Central Avenue, Bushwick, Brooklyn subway stations
completed respectively in Hand Painted & Fired Glass Blocks and Laser Cut 316 Stainless Steel. His work For the RTD FasTracks can be seen all along the North Metro Line light-rail in Aurora, Colorado as
twenty-four (24) windscreens completed in the medium of Hand Painted & Fired Glass Art Panels. He is
currently working on large- scale public art projects to be permanently installed for the transit systems of
El Paso, Texas; Phoenix; and Reston, Virginia to be completed in a diverse variety of media including FRP (Fiberglass Reinforced Plastic).
His work has been exhibited in at the Laguna Art Museum in California, included in a variety of group
shows worldwide, appeared in Los Angeles as a temporary public art project, exhibited as a solo show of his sketchbooks in Munich, Germany, and has been privately commissioned by collectors.
The public art projects are a direct outgrowth in an interest in exploring the plastic nature of systems,
communities, complexities, aesthetics, and the realities and satisfactions of societal living in relation to Art.