Americans for the Arts

Design competitions can ... foster an exceptional spirit which inspires participants to surpass their own limits and those of their peers. As with athletic competitions, design competitions enable emerging, less experienced talent to compete with more established professionals. T

Dallas is fast approaching that time as its cultural life grows. A public art program, as proposed in this document, is intended to complement and become a part of the grace and elegance of a mature city. Further, the proposed public art program provides a means for the citizens to meet and welcome a new citizen, the artist, who usually is thought of as an artist but not a citizen but who, through our invitation to be a citizen artist can contribute immeasurably to the City's maturing process. With this vision before us, we offer the Public Art Plan, Visual Dallas, to the citizens of Dallas.

Copyright laws regarding public works of art vary internationally, so it is important for artists and users to be aware of these differences to protect themselves in an increasingly global society.

Collective actions of "place-making" in Sunnyside, Portland, OR through community involvement in public art has resulted in increased social capital, thus revitalizing the community, and expanded social networks among residents have stimulated a sense of well-being.

Chicago's Millennium Park is a case study in how to create demand for downtown services and real estate.

Catalog of the exhibition Projects and Proposals: the New York City's Percent for Art Program, at the City Gallery of the Department of Cultural Affairs (DCA), New York City, January 21, 1988-March 4, 1988. The exhibition documents the wide variety of art selected through DCA's Percent for Art Program from its inception in 1983 to the present. Through the program, in the next few years these fourteen projects will be in place not only at traditional sites such as schools, hospitals and parks but also at sanitation garages, piers and firehouses.

As acknowledged first in 1974 and again in 1985, Metropolitan Toronto accepted the responsibility of establishing sound public art policies and practices. Metropolitan Council recognized the need to have professional expertise in developing such a policy framework with its establishment of the Public Art Policy Advisory Committee.

Article explores the controversy around public art works created by Alan LeQuire in 2002 and 2003.

Art placement policy for the City of Seattle. Department of Policy & Procedure.

An update to San Jose existing Public Art Master Plan, which was adopted in 2001. This new Public Art Master Plan is intended to guide San Jose Public Art Program from 2007-2012.

After an introduction addressing the importance and role of art in public places and the need for good design, 56 projects are profiled, 22 of which are new to this second edition. Each profile includes background, description, and design impact of the project. This edition also includes a section on planning art in public places projects.

After an introduction addressing the importance and role of art in public places and the need for good design, 47 projects are profiled. Each profile includes background, description, and design impact of the project.

Adopted by the town council on October 11, 2001, this master plan, Art of the Triangle, was developed as a mechanism for directing the implementation of public artworks in Cary, North Carolina over the next five years.

A public agency that builds large shapes in larger spaces is inescapably involved in aesthetics. The span of the George Washington Bridge soars out of the Palisades rock, the Bayonne arch looks pure against the western sky. To the driver the bridges are but land-to-land crossings over water; their function outweighing their form. Yet if there is beauty in the shape and placement of the bridges, they approach the domain of art.

Critical Issues in Public Art: Content, Context and Controversy is an anthology (twenty two essays) that was developed from the editors' work on the Winter 1989 Art Journal - an issue devoted to public art. The book is divided into four parts.