We’re thrilled to share a year end message from TEMPOart board member Susan Lambe. With a rich career in public art, public space design, and creative placemaking, Sue brings a unique perspective to the importance of public art in our lives.
Thank you for your support!
TEMPOart
After a career in public space design, public art and creative placekeeping, I am so proud to support the work of TEMPOart.
I find TEMPOart’s work as a leader in public art, supporting the arts and culture ecosystem in Maine, highly inspirational, and I encourage you to make a gift to TEMPOart Portland this year!
Public art is a reflection of its place and time, and in this time when loneliness is at an all-time high across society, public art can promote social health, enhance personal wellbeing, and demonstrate civic vitality. Public art brings art directly to the people, inspiring conversation through a sense of curiosity, challenge, illumination, or delight. To some extent, every public art project is an interactive process involving artists, visual arts professionals, designers, community residents, civic leaders, elected officials, approval agencies, funding agencies, and fabrication teams, buoying Portland’s creative economy.
I encourage you to support TEMPOart, an essential arts nonprofit in Portland’s creative economy ecosystem and the only organization devoted to enlivening public space with temporary art available to everyone, every day, for free. As we continue this vital work, we thank you for providing the funding that makes everything we do possible.
Susan Lambe (she/her)
Board Member, TEMPOart
Public Art Consultant
Founding Member, Public Art Exchange
Thank you for reading Sue’s inspiring message. Please consider making a gift today to double your impact. Together, we can continue to bring free, temporary public art to Portland’s shared spaces.