The Workers was intended to commemorate the region’s steel heritage.

Ned Kahn’s 12- story, wind-driven kinetic light sculpture, Firefly, is installed as part of one of San Francisco’s greenest buildings, the new Public Utilities Commission (PUC) headquarters. Kahn’s sculpture is a visual expression of the power of the wind, appropriately mounted on the façade of the tower housing wind turbines that generate 7% of the building’s electrical needs.

The Peralta Junction Project was an experiment in urban space activation that used art and an immersive environment to anchor a temporary destination space in West Oakland, California.

The public art installation by Maya Barkai, Men At Work was unveiled on 9/11 around the construction site of World Trade Center Tower 4, and installation from the Walking Men Worldwide Initiative™. The project, which depicts nearly 150 iconic figures from street signs in cities around the world, was installed along 1,000 feet of construction parapets, stretching along the southern edge of the World Trade Center construction site.

Artist Cecil Balmond's Snow Words flies in from the mountains outside and settles into the lobby of the Crime Detection Lab in Anchorage, Alaska. It takes shape in columns of alternation - standing up, serried and staccato. LED lights power the forms to give warmth and the art work acts as a talisman for the users of the building, the light bars are symbolic code for the forensic research they undertake.

Prayer Booth by artist Dylan Mortimer asks questions about the public expression of private faith. By functionally providing a facility to pray, the piece comments on the concept of prayer itself, and it's relation to others in the public sphere.

Through an online query, the artist Janet Zweig, collected hundreds of unanswerable questions from philosophers from around the world to display on an undulating steel. The frame holds circuit boards that hang like an open venetian blind, with LEDs on the edges of both sides, making a transparent, 3-dimensional, two-sided display.

Maya Lin’s last memorial What is Missing? is a poignant multimedia artwork dedicated to raising awareness about the current crisis surrounding biodiversity and habitat loss. What Is Missing? was recognized by the 2010 Public Art Network Year in Review.

Partly located inside the restricted grounds of the Sabine Water Pump Station fence and partly outside the fence in Buffalo Bayou Park (and a few hundred feet from the public skate park), aritst Matthew Geller's Open Channel Flow mimics in style and color much smaller structures that dot the Pump Station landscape. The work was recognized by the 2010 Public Art Network Year in Review.

Her Secret is Patience by artist Janet Echelman is a monumental outdoor sculpture suspended 100 feet above the new Phoenix Civic Space Park, at Taylor Street and Central Avenue. This iconic kinetic form maps the beauty of desert light and winds, and casts what the artist calls “shadow drawings,” much like those of clouds gliding over the landscape.

Camera Rosetum by artist Sean Capone was a temporary art exhibition presented featuring video projections and digital animation transforming the ceiling of the tunnel in the subway station into a dramatic baroque-inspired spectacle. Camera Rosetum was recognized by the 2010 Pub

Cleveland Public Art’s Wood Pile was a temporary installation commissioned for the Cleveland Museum of Art’s Summer Solstice Celebration in June 2009. Artist Mark A. Reigelman II constructed Wood Pile on the perimeter of the museum’s East Wing to pay tribute to ancient midsummer-related traditions.

Public parks emerged through the lens of contemporary art amidst towering casinos, urban blight, and the ocean spray of the South Jersey shore.

As part of an exhibition at the Institute of Contemporary Art/Boston, the Brazilian artists Gustavo and Otavio Pandolfo (known as Os Gemeos), created a temporary, monumental public mural on the Rose Kennedy Greenway in downtown Boston, MA. Their imagery draws on dreams as well as their everyday lives, especially the color and chaos of the urban environment.

The Long Walk is a time-based, "open-source" and participatory event in which artist Susan Robb takes a group of fifty self-selecting members of the general public on a journey along the King County Regional Trails System (RTS).

Hive (Bleecker Street) is a light installation for the Bleecker Street Station by Leo Villareal. The LED sculpture takes the form of a honeycomb, dramatically filling an architectural space in the shape of an ellipse above the stairs.