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About the Weather Watcher
In a public call for entry, artists were invited to submit proposals that considered the role of art in urban placemaking through a lens of curiosity, playfulness and originality. Following review of 12 submissions, the City’s Council-appointed Public Art Advisory Committee unanimously recommended awarding the residency to Lisa Hirmer. Her proposal, entitled, ‘Weather Watcher,’ sought to capture artistic, poetic, and systematic recordings of the weather.
Using the vehicle of everyday banal conversations about the weather, Hirmer aimed to engage the public in gaining deeper insight into our understanding and beliefs about the impact that weather and its changing patterns have on the lives of those who live, work and play in our city.
Over the course of the residency, Hirmer designed, constructed and installed a weather registering structure in Market Square. She also created a mobile unit that accompanied her as she moved to various locations outside. While engaging with the public, Hirmer created artistic works that recorded and documented the changing weather in the moment and the public’s interaction with it.
For the duration of the project, Hirmer’s artistic work was shaped into a public exhibition at City Hall.