Community Art Project

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PBCIP’s public arts initiative kicked off last year with youth at the Boys & Girls Club on Park Boulevard. The spring session built upon the first youth arts program last fall and emphasized the theme of “Visioning a New Haddon Avenue.” The sessions were structured as urban planning charettes with sculptural art workshops as well.

The program combined the two related fields of art and urban planning.  Each week the youth participated in an urban planning charette, and came up with their own ideas to turn Haddon Avenue into an eco-friendly, walkable, cultural arts district.  Over the course of eight weeks they built a model of Haddon Avenue. Each week the youth created a different type of sculpture, from paper mache buildings, to wind turbines and solar panels from recycled materials, to park benches and fountains made of clay. By the end of the eight weeks they completed the Haddon Avenue model and presented PBCIP with some exciting new ideas to make the retail district a welcoming place to live and shop.