Here, There, and Everywhere. Urban Anatomy, where art is all around us.
Urban Anatomy is a unique public art project, where small works of art, fragments of poetry, and other creative vignettes are spread throughout Belmar. It is free and open to the public.
Situated alongside such elements as sidewalk joints, manhole covers, catch basins and grates, the pieces are designed to make previously overlooked details of the urban environment visible to pedestrians. Initial contributors to this project include internationally recognized writers and artists.
- Former US Poet Laureate, Billy Collins.
- Argentine-born artist Liliana Porter, whose works can be found in the Metropolitan Museum of Art and Museum of Modern Art in New York.
- Belgian-born artist Francis Alÿs, a leading contemporary artist whose work has been shown at such prestigious international venues as the Venice Biennaile and the Picasso Museum.
- Kim Dickey, a professor of ceramics at the University of Colorado, Boulder, whose work explores the idea of utopia.
- The Center for Land Use Interpretation, a unique, Los Angeles-based organization that raises awareness about the human-created landscape through artistic and educational program.