ArtWalk
The project explores: How can public art transform walk-by experiences into intentional, emotionally engaging journeys?
Inspired by a spring visit to the Morgan Library & Museum exhibition Friends Who Came to See Me: Drawings from John Ashbery’s Collection, I became interested in how art lives through the ways we encounter it, interpret it, and remember it. This shaped the concept of ArtWalk around site-specific meaning, the idea that artworks have meaning in relation to place and experience.
I also explored public art as a tool for creative placemaking, community engagement, and cultural identity-building. These questions informed the app’s narrative around spatial storytelling: Who decides where public artworks belong? How does location shape interpretation? And how can communities help author the stories around them? This journey reflects both my growth as a visual designer and my developing narrative of care for the objects and stories that shape our built environments.
ArtWalk is designed as 50% curated and 50% user-generated. Instead of working only as an artwork directory, the app functions as emotional cartography, inviting users to capture their moods, reflections, and interpretations as part of each walk.
ArtWalk reimagines public art as an infrastructure to deepen the relationship between people, place, and memory.