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The Watermill Center’s Sherry Dobbin joins Times Square Alliance as new Director of Public Art

NEW YORK, NY.- The Times Square Alliance announced that Sherry Dobbin will join as the new Director of Public Art. Dobbin will be responsible for programming Times Square with installations and performance art from artists around the world. Dobbin most recently served as Director of The Watermill Center. She brings over 20 years of experience having worked internationally within performance arts, visual arts and public art and having served as a producer, administrator and curator. Dobbin will lead Times Square Arts, the Alliance’s public art program that works to bring high-quality and cutting-edge art to the Crossroads of the World. She will draw on her experience curating both installations and performance art in the U.S. and abroad to oversee Times Square’s compelling 2012 season of public art projects. Additionally, she seeks to create an artist-in-residence program in Times Square. “Times Square