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ARTIST STATEMENT BY ROBERT TANNEN. My first years were spent on the beaches of and near Coney Island. My family homes were in Seagate, a small private community adjacent to the boardwalk of Coney Island. I first began making art at three years of age.
Robert Tannen is an artist, economic and urban development and design specialist, planner and community activist whose 60 year artistic, professional and community service career has resulted in more than $3 billion of public/private projects in the lower Mississippi Valley and the Gulf Coast.
Feb 4, 2020 · The giant fiberglass fish—modeled on a marlin—is one of the many sculptures that inhabit the garden of the artist, urbanist, and environmental planner Robert Tannen.
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REDART is the most recent permutation of work by artist and planner Robert C.Tannen whose lifelong focus on environmental issues began as a teenager making sculptures from debris on the beaches of Coney Island where he was raised.
Jun 22, 2018 · Decades ago, the New Orleans artist Robert Tannen recognized something emblematic in one of the city's most common forms: the shotgun house. Since then, he's created artistic renderings of the...
Aug 13, 2008 · New Orleans artist and urban designer, Robert Tannen has designed a collection of jewelry to symbolize the love and commitment people have to the cultural legacy and future of the Gulf Coast region. The shotgun house is a ubiquitous form of the gulf coast with historic origins in Africa and Europe.
Robert Tannen is an artist, urban planner and one of the founders of the Contemporary Art Center, New Orleans. He has been engaged in urban planning and urban design since 1965 throughout the nation and internationally with work in Iran, Ecuador, Venezuela, and Panama.
