Year: 2019

  • Long-Term Strategy Training & Documentation

    Long-Term Strategy Training & Documentation

    This month I conducted training in six locations, bringing the strategy that I helped create for my client to the people who are responsible for executing it, on the ground. The training includes an explanation of each component of the strategy, making sure that people see themselves and their contributions in the finished product.

  • Photo Essay: Cathedral of Our Lady of the Angels

    Today I visited and photographed a place I have wanted to see since the day it opened— the Cathedral of Our Lady of the Angels in Los Angeles Here’s a snip from the New York Times story on the opening, which I read in the newspaper, which was delivered to my door on August 30,…

  • Workshop: Too Much Data?

    Today I participated in a workshop with the Chicago Council on Global Affairs for the Pritzker Forum on Global Cities called, “Too Much Data?”

  • Moderator: “Are We There Yet? Turning Legacy 311 Systems into Agile, User-Centered Digital Services”

    Today I moderated a session at the Code for America Summit. Here’s the session description: Open311 technologies report and track non-emergency issues in public spaces, allowing citizens to communicate to their governments, and governments to respond to their citizens more effectively. And while 311 websites, apps, and even chatbots are now common in cities and…

  • Workshop: Evaluating Emerging Technologies

    Today I helped Sharon Kennedy Vickers, Chief Information Officer for the City of Saint Paul to conduct a 4-hour workshop at the Code for America Summit: Evaluating Emerging Technologies. Here’s documentation, including notes on all table discussions.

  • Arte Agora Book Release Party

    Tonight we had a celebration, performance, and book signing for Arte Agora Here’s the complete album from the evening.

  • Interview: “Arte Agoraphile—An Interview with Arte Agora Author Daniel X. O’Neil”

    Here’s an interview published today by Dan Kelly at Third Coast Review centered on my new book, “Arte Agora: Art made, sold, or placed in the public way“: Arte Agoraphile—An Interview with Arte Agora Author Daniel X. O’Neil Here’s the text:

  • Article: “Arte Agora collection brings outside(r) art inside”

    Here’s a review/ interview about my book, “Arte Agora: art made, sold, or placed in the public way“, written by Dmitry Samarov and published in The Chicago Reader: Arte Agora collection brings outside(r) art inside. Here’s the text: Arte Agora collection brings outside(r) art inside  With his new self-published book, patron of public art Daniel…

  • Arte Agora

    Arte Agora

    I wrote this book, which defines a new genre of American art that is “made, sold, or placed in the public way”, in May 2019. Here’s an excerpt: You can read the entire volume here: https://www.arteagorabook.com/ or purchase here on Amazon:

  • Writing: City Bureau 2018 Yearbook

    Here’s something I wrote for City Bureau for our 2018 Yearbook: