The Fairmount Park Art Association (now Association for Public Art) worked with conservators at the Philadelphia Museum of Art to provide comprehensive conservation treatment for “Atmosphere and Environment XII” by Louise Nevelson.

The Philadelphia Public Art Forum Advocacy Committee recently released “Great Art for a Great City, ” a mayoral brief directed at the candidates running for Philadelphia mayor in 2007.

At their January meeting, the Fairmount Park Commission approved the placement of di Suvero’s Iroquois along the Parkway, and aPA will present the work to the Art Commission in February.

Thanks to an intensive fundraising effort spearheaded by the Philadelphia Museum of Art and the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts Thomas Eakins’ “The Gross Clinic” will stay in Philadelphia.

The Fairmount Park Art Association’s most recent commission, “Manayunk Stoops,” was featured on WRTI’s Creatively Speaking! on December 9, 2006.

The Art Association’s Executive Director, Penny Balkin Bach, told the Philadelphia Inquirer that 45 days was not long enough for the city’s cultural institutions to react to the sale, and encouraged the city and its institutions to be proactive in protecting important artworks.

Roy Lichtenstein’s “Brushstroke Group,” a sculpture ensemble located at the United Plaza between Chestnut and Market Streets, was brought to Philadelphia in August 2005 courtesy of Duane Morris L.L.P.

To celebrate the installation of “Manayunk Stoops: Heart and Home,” Jeremy Tenenbaum of the architecture firm Venturi, Scott Brown and Associates created a storefront display for their offices on Main Street in Manayunk.

The Manayunk Canal Towpath came alive on September 29, 2006 as neighbors, local business owners, and supporters gathered to celebrate the dedication of “Manayunk Stoops.”

The artist has created nine mosaic “stoops” that enhance and interpret the physical and natural environment of the Towpath.