CONSULTING SERVICES

Since 2004, Cat Peña has cultivated her interest and understanding of the multifaceted field of pubic art and social practices by assuming the roles of public artist, fabricator, installer, project manager, educator, fundraiser, grant writer, and community organizer. It is from this knowledge that Peña successfully identifies, designs, and implements opportunities to improve cultural exchanges that reanimate or define the physical, social or cultural spaces of our cities as well as act as an advocate for artists and their working methodologies.

Public Art Programing / Project Management

Project planning, oversight and management, site analysis, artist selection/referrals, project timelines, strategic planning, contracts, site specific public art design and fabrication

 

Community Engagement

Plan and design appropriate community engagement strategies, identify community stakeholders, define possible limitations, and create strategies for staging engagement

 

Design / Concept Development

Creative problem solving for development projects, procedural methods and creating functional forms or layouts

 

Collaborative Creative Research

Design framework and oversight of topic or place specific collaborative creative research to identify the wants and needs of a focus group or site

 

Past projects + clients:

  • Medical District Collaborative: Street Enhancements, Creative in Research program, Public Art Programming

  • The City of Germantown: Public Art Walk Assessment/ plan, Strategic Planning, Public Art Master Plan

  • Medical District Design Charrette (with Medical District Collaborative, Looney Ricks Kiss & alta Planning)

  • Collabortory: Survey 1/ the EDGE District

  • Collabortory: Survey 2/ Normal Station/ U of M 

  • Le Bonheur Children’s Hospital

  • Downtown Memphis Commission

  • South Main Mosaic Art Public Art Program

  • Park(ing) Day Memphis

Let’s Work Together