Liesel Fenner, ASLA is the public art program manager at Americans for the Arts in Washington, DC, and develops national programs and services advocating for excellence in public art and design. She builds partnerships and cultivates field leadership through the Public Art Network (PAN) which has membership of  more than 1,000 art and design professionals. Liesel has planned the last five annual public art conference proceedings.

Liesel is a licensed landscape architect and practiced landscape architecture and urban design in the San Francisco Bay Area. She attended the Rhode Island School of Design and received a Masters of Landscape Architecture degree with a specialization in public art. She also received a Bachelors of Landscape Architecture from the University of California, Davis.

Session(s):
2012 Public Art Network Year in Review

With more than two decades of experience in the field of local arts development, public art and urban design, Greer’s philosophy for leading public art initiatives and programs remains passionately artist-focused. The chemistry between public artists and community transforming shared spaces represents a practice of artmaking that is bold and unparalleled within American culture.

From 2000 – 2010, Greer served as VP of Public Art for the Arts & Science Council of Charlotte-Mecklenburg and coordinated the adoption of 1% for art ordinances for both City and County. The joint program has served as a catalyst and collaborator with numerous municipal and private partners to advance mutual economic and aesthetic goals, completing nearly 50 artworks in the past decade.  The previous nine years, as director of the Public Art and Design Program for the Broward Cultural Division in Fort Lauderdale, FL, she coordinated the adoption of a 2% for art ordinance, implemented the Design Broward Master Plan, a benchmark in the profession, and with staff completed 40 major projects.  Under her leadership each program developed major award-winning projects.

Greer holds graduate degrees in art history and education. She is currently a Principal in the Public Art Collaborative, LLC, in Chapel Hill, NC. She has presented workshops and papers at numerous national and regional conferences, and served as a national and state panelist, advisor and research consultant. She served for six years on the Public Art Network (PAN) Council of Americans for the Arts and was elected Chair from 2005-2007.

Session(s):
The Public Art Network 2012 Year in Review