"New genre public art [is] visual art that uses both traditional and nontraditional media to communicate and interact with a broad and diversified audience about issues directly relevant to their lives [and] is based on engagement." So writes Suzanne Lacy, a long-time practitioner of such work. Engagement with members of the public is the premise on which this public art tutorial is founded. The hands-on work of the class will consist in exploring issues directly relevant to our context and the lives of those around us. Students do three projects-one on Place, one on Memory, and one on Community Concerns; each student does individual projects discussed in the tutorial groups Artwork of like concerns, accompanied by readings, will preface the projects. Format: tutorial. Requirements: readings plus directing one discussion on readings, exercises, three projects, and full critical participation in discussion of colleagues' work. Prerequisites: any 100-level course in ArtS or ArtH, and any 200-level course in the Art Department, any course in Theater, Sociology, Political Science, Psychology, Women's and Gender Studies, and Environmental Studies, or permission of instructor. Enrollment limit: 10. Preference given to Art majors.