Tell Us What You Think
(2005 - ongoing)

Tell Us What You Think will create dialogue through traveling workbooks, a website, and community events. Artists and non-artists will find and make art together in public spaces at no monetary cost. The workbooks will be released throughout the world to gather writing from people about social issues, the process of collaboration, and the subject of public art. We will highlight the everyday practice of creative action as a force for social change.

Our readers are everybody: public school students, immigrants, workers, parents, you. We will distribute free copies of the workbooks to them locally, nationally, and internationally in public spaces (subway station, shopping mall, health clinic, etc). After finding a workbook, readers will respond to prompts and then leave their copies in new public spaces for others to find. We anticipate the publication being released in 2008 with an initial print run of 3,000 – 5,000 copies. For documenting purposes, each workbook will have an edition number and the address of the AGS website.

The entire workbook will be available as a free download on the AGS website. Our site will also have a world map to track the journey of individual workbooks, an open message board, and links to other resources around both public art and the social issues covered in the workbooks. Sparking new public art and collaborations, AGS will organize free community Show & Tell events. People will be invited to share their responses from the workbooks and display their own creative work.