The Art of Creating Online Public Art Collections

Lucas Cowan became the Rose Kennedy Greenway Conservancy’s first Director and Curator of Public Art in 2014. Previously, he was the Director for the Maryland State Arts Council Public Art Program, and the Senior Curator of Exhibits for both Millennium Park and the Chicago Office of Tourism and Culture. Over the last 16 years, he has curated and managed dozens of public art commissions and exhibitions by artists of national and international calibur in public spaces. Cowan has served on juries and panels across the United States, consulted on cultural park planning for cities such as San Francisco, Chicago and Northwest Arkansas and serves as trustee and advisor to prestigious visual arts organizations nationwide. He attended the Maryland Institute College of Art where he studied Fiber and Material Studies and The School of the Art Institute of Chicago’s Master Program in Arts Administration.