Throughout the month of May, be on the lookout for the Association for Public Art’s conservation team conducting annual maintenance on 31 Philadelphia public artworks.

“Symbiosis,” a masterful work of public art by Roxy Paine that explores nature’s regenerative forces, will be installed on the Benjamin Franklin Parkway at 24th Street (Iroquois Park) in June 2014.

As part of this long-operating program, the aPA recently hired arborists to assess three large and precarious looking London Plane trees along the riverside recreation path, and to prevent damage or injury, the aPA together with Parks & Recreation, made the decision to safely remove the dead trees.

Brady writes that notable voices participating in aPA’s Museum Without Walls™: AUDIO program include “Mayor Nutter; ‘Clothespin’ artist Claes Oldenburg; Philadelphia Museum of Art director and CEO Timothy Rub; and David Kim, violinist and concertmaster of the Philadelphia Orchestra.”

Philadelphia is truly a “museum without walls” and is considered a livable city in part because of its impressive and unique collection of outdoor sculpture. Yet pollution, acid rain, and vandalism threaten these irreplaceable artistic and cultural assets. The aPA works to protect and preserve the city’s public art treasures.

Awarded by the Academy of Natural Sciences of Drexel University and Geekadelphia, “The Event of the Year honors an outstanding event that’s pulled in not only a lot of attendees, but a lot of attention to the city, often times doing a lot of good for the community.”

The Association for Public Art was recently highlighted in an article by Katherine Gressel on Createquity.com about best practices for using interactive technology to evaluate public art: “Smart Public Art: Interactive Technology and Public Art Evaluation.”

Chosen from more than 250 submissions from across the U.S., the awards were given by Americans for the Arts to “the most exemplary, innovative, permanent or temporary public art works created or debuted in the previous year.”

Unique to this restoration was the installation of several re-fabricated elements, including the reins for Meade’s horse, “Baldy.”

Creative Philadelphia’s long-awaited conservation and rededication of Rafael Ferrer’s El Gran Teatro de la Luna, originally commissioned by the Association for Public Art, was held on May 14th in Fairhill Square.