Marvin Heiferman is a curator and writer who has organized projects about photography and visual culture for institutions including the Museum of Modern Art, the Smithsonian Institution, the International Center of Photography, the Whitney Museum of American Art and the New Museum.
In the past, the Fund has organized projects like Anish Kapoor's "Sky Mirror" (2006) at the Rockefeller Center and Tatzu Nishi's "Discovering Columbus" (2012) at Columbus Circle.
From its headquarters on Avenue H in East Flatbush, the Alumni Association of Immaculate Conception College has organized construction projects, delivered books, sponsored scholarships and bought athletic uniforms for two decades.
Santa Ana was once predominantly poor and Mexican (in 2004, it was deemed the hardest big city to live in by SUNY's Rockefeller Institute of Government), but it is quickly becoming gentrified, and Montaño has organized art projects and writing workshops to teach residents how to fight back.
Having site-specific installations is a first for the park, for Mr. Tuazon and for the Public Art Fund, which has organized the project.
Visitor registration opens on Aug. 1 and runs through the open studio weekend, Sept. 8 and 9. "One hopes we'll see new artists' work," said Sharon Matt Atkins, the managing curator of exhibitions at the museum, who has organized the project with Shelley Bernstein, the museum's chief of technology.
But from the beginning it has organized effective grassroots projects, promoting Islamic education and working to alleviate poverty and to provide disaster relief.
In Japan, she has organized a cooperative project of concerts in small towns with audience participation, drawing on the Japanese principle of kizuna, or interconnectedness.
"I've read 'The House on Mango Street' 20 times, and I have not read where the young protagonist, Esperanza, said a word about overthrowing the government," said Tony Diaz, who has organized the Librotraficante project to restore these books to Arizona classrooms.
The ENCODE DCC has organized the ENCODE project's results to make them more available to the greater scientific community.
Brooklyn Fire Proof Kathy Grayson, a young artist with a day job at Deitch Projects, has organized "Dirt Wizard," a show of drawings, paintings and wall paintings by her contemporaries that is extremely ambitious, given the circumstances.
