169: Illuminating Public Art with Ben Davis

Artistic Finance

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

⭐️ Conversely, turning down millions of dollars of funding

⭐️ The economy of generosity vs. economy of reciprocity

Quicklinks - Artistic Finance:

https://linktr.ee/artisticfinance

Video Version:

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

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/

Instagram Handles

@illuminatethearts

@lobolux

@ethansteimel

@nicolevsteimel

Interview by Amy D Lux