Barbara Goldstein is an independent consultant focusing on creative placemaking and public art planning.  She is the former Public Art Director for the City of San Jose Office of Cultural Affairs and editor of Public Art by the Book, a primer published by Americans for the Arts and the University of Washington Press. Ms. Goldstein has directed the public art programs in Seattle and Los Angeles, worked as a cultural planner, architectural and art critic, editor and publisher. She has lectured and participated in workshops on public art in the United States, Japan, China, Taiwan, Korea, Canada the Netherlands and Abu Dhabi. She is past chair of the Chair of the Public Art Network for Americans for the Arts.

Ms. Goldstein has consulted with cities, developers and public agencies in  Pittsburgh, PA, Pasadena, CA, Charlotte, NC, Las Vegas, NV, Palo Alto CA, and Orlando, FL.. In 2013, she led a series of webinars entitled Creative Placemaking and Public Art for Americans for the Arts. She is currently developing public art and cultural plans for Bay Area Rapid Transit and the City of Glendale, CA.

Ms. Goldstein has written extensively about public art and architecture and was editor an publisher of Arts + Architecture magazine from 1980 to 1985. She has served on the Board of Directors for ArtSpace and Friends of the Schindler House and the Advisory Board for Forecast Public Art. She is currently a Board member of MACLA, Movimiento de Arte y Cultural Latino Americana, and ZERO1: the Art and Technology Network, where she serves as Chair.

In 2015 Ms. Goldstein was a Fellow in Stanford University’s Distinguished Careers Institute where she also served as Scholar in Residence for the School of Chemical and Systems Biology. 

As Public Art Administrator at the Baltimore Office of Promotion & The Arts (BOPA), C. Ryan Patterson manages the operations of Baltimore's Percent-for-Art program, the care of the city's public art collection, and serves as staff to the Public Art Commission. He has served as project manager for temporary installations and performances at Artscape, Baltimore Book Festival and Light City and worked with Open Space Baltimore to organize the Artist Run Art Fair since 2014 and served as the Chair of the Light City Sustainability Committee. He helped establish Mayor Stephanie Rawlings Blake's Special Commission to Review Confederate Monuments in 2015 and was one of the authors of the report issued by the Commission in August of 2016. He currently serves BOPA's representative on the Mayor Catherine E. Pugh's Confederate Monument Task Force and oversees the Monumental Sites Call for ideas to activate and reinterpret the sites of the former monuments. Ryan received his BFA in General Sculptural Studies from the Maryland Institute College of Art in 2006, where he was awarded a France Merrick Foundation Fellowship in Community Arts.

As the Public Art & Civic Design Senior Program Manager,Patricia Walsh overseas five program areas under the Equity + Local ArtsEngagement department including Arts and Community Development; Arts in CivicDesign; Creative Placemaking; Cultural Districts, Trails and Tourism; andPublic Art. Through her work she engages with and works to educate local artsagency leaders on how to utilize the arts to equitably address community needsand goals. Her work aims to support professional development, resource buildingand networking opportunities for arts administrators to utilize the arts tocreate accessible public spaces, enable inclusive and equitable communitydevelopment, and ensure the arts are an active component in equitable economicgrowth and sustainability.

Patricia is a member of the Arts and Planning Interest GroupSteering Committee for American Planning Association, co-chair for theWashington District Council on Placemaking for Urban Land Institute, and anartist selection committee member for two projects with the City of Rockville,Maryland.

She holds a Master of Science in Arts Administration from BostonUniversity, a Bachelor of Arts in painting from State University of New York atPlattsburgh, and an Associates in Applied Science in Commercial Art fromDutchess Community College.