EPISODE 169:

ILLUMINATING PUBLIC ART

Host: Ethan Steimel
Release Date: 10/28/2024

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Amy D Lux interviews Ben Davis, founder of Illuminate, a San Francisco non-profit that rallies large groups of people together to create impossible works of public art. 

Topics:
⭐️ The Bay Bridge Lights
⭐️ Raising a million dollars a month
⭐️ Turning down millions of dollars of funding
⭐️ The economy of generosity vs. economy of reciprocity 

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Links and Resources

Video Version:
https://youtu.be/327Aw0bEuAs?si=CDtY99XwNtVgB0rg

Artistic Finance
https://linktr.ee/artisticfinance
Illuminate
https://illuminate.org/

Ben Davis
https://www.linkedin.com/in/ben-davis-sf/

Musco Lighting
https://www.musco.com/baybridge/

Leo Villareal - Bay Bridge Lights
https://villareal.net/the-bay-lights-2013-the-bay-bridge-sf-ca

George Zisiadis - Grace Light
https://www.georgezisiadis.com/

Gabriel Gold - Grace Light Composer
https://www.gabrielgoldmusic.com/

Mark Deem - Misfit Toys
https://goldenmileproject.org/project/remember-when/

Reuben Rude - Whale
https://goldenmileproject.org/project/street-whale/

Dana King - Rooted (In) Justice
https://goldenmileproject.org/project/rooted-in-justice/

Charlie Gadekan
https://goldenmileproject.org/project/tune-in/

Doggie Diner Heads
https://goldenmileproject.org/project/doggie-diner-heads/

Cristo and Jeanne-Claude
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christo_and_Jeanne-Claude

Amy D Lux:
https://www.linkedin.com/in/amy-d-lux-953a7318a/
https://utopiadreamscape.com/author/luvlogica/

 Ben Davis
Founder of Illuminate

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Interview by Amy D Lux