Step-by-steps for Points of Interest
Timeline Steps Staff Comments
January 2008 1. Initiate partnership with Braddock Youth Project  
  2. Youth, self-identifying as location-scouts, lead walks throughout Braddock and North Braddock. Youth nominate locations were they would put art installations to transform specific environments in their daily lives. We had a snack, and were blown away by the teens' willingness to walk with us for hours in the freezing cold, showing us their neighborhood.
--Dana
3. Photograph each empty lot, blank wall, and neglected corner highlighted by the youth as a potential location.  
4. Use visual record to create database of locations. Begin to map out by street address and type of ownership (municipal, railroad, county, company, individual.)  
February 2008 5. Create project budget.  
  6. Identify potential sponsors for project.  
  7. Write sponsorship letter and work on it for a really long time. HEPLFUL TO EXPLAIN WHY SO LONG? "and take a long time so that it accurately reflects focus on process" OR SOMETHING...want to use this to bring attention to why this request looks a little different from other money asks?
--Erin
  8. Track down location owners. Obtain applicable permission for location
usage at civic meetings, presentations for local officials, and after
lengthy phone conversations.		 Future link to exploration of types of ownership.
  9. Invite artists whose work in some way engages the idea of community, who process is specific to location, interaction and public spaces to participate in the project. Whose idea of community?
  10. Compile artist and location confirmations.  
  11. Match artists with locations. Using what criteria?
  12. Coordinate travel plans, place to stay, material, in-kind donations, etc.  
  13. Create location flash cards with images taken during walk.  
  14. Ask church, civic and social leaders to organize small gatherings of community members to talk about the memories and current feelings triggered by the images.  
  15. Retrace the walk, seeking door-to-door conversations around chosen locations.  
  16. Actively persue constant community outreach at every opportunity. Ask questions and listen everywhere you go. Go everywhere.  
March 2008 17. Provide artists with collected location narratives and photos.  
  18. Create job description for artist assistants.  
  19. Hire Braddock Youth Project members to be artist assistants. Youth will be responsible for site details, local research, and general context.  
  20. Send out a press release and begin greater Pittsburgh area outreach. To build audience? Generate interest?
April 2008 21. Artists arrive for installations for the week of April 6-13.  
  22. Provide artists with programing to interact with people and culture of area.  
  23. Schedule rotating ground crews of video, interviewers and conversationalists to be on location collecting passerby feedback and reaction during and after installations.  
  24. Collect maintenance plans created by artists and be accountable for them.  
  25. Send sponsors portfolio of images depicting the location process and installation.  
Ongoing 26. Coordinate with Braddock Youth Project to provide ongoing organized tours of the Points of Interest formed from their daily experience and the artist installations.