Resources

Public Art

Resources

Publicartwisconsin

a listserve for public art throughout Wisconsin, moderated by Create Wisconsin.  To join, send a message with “subscribe” in the subject line, to publicartwisconsin+subscribe@groups.io

Public Art Resources

• National Endowment for the Arts Public Art Resources

• Americans for the Arts Public Art Resource Center

• Public Art 101:  www.americansforthearts.org/by-topic/publict

• National public art network:  www.americansforthearts.org/by-program/networks-and-councils/public-art-network

• The public art network “year in review” (database of awesome projects):  www.americansforthearts.org/by-program/networks-and-councils/public-art-network/public-art-year-in-review-database/yir-search

• Inspirational video:  www.americansforthearts.org/by-topic/public-art/how-to-look-at-public-art-a-six-year-old-explains 

• National Assembly of State Arts Agencies (NASAA) Public Art Resources

• Wisconsin Office of Rural Prosperity

• Plans and Strategies for Public Art - Main Street Solution Center

• Arts and Planning Public Art Toolkit

• Public Art and Placemaking Toolkit - Georgia Council on the Arts

• Maximizing Murals - Wisconsin Main Street Program mural development toolkit 

• Creative City Network of Canada Public Art Toolkit

• Forecast Public Art Resources

• Main Street America Knowledge Hub

• PublicArtist.org

• CAFE (Call for Entry): www.callforentry.org

Inspiration, best practices, and policies

• How Four Small Towns are Building Vibrant Communities through the Tools of Creative  Placemaking, Daily Yonder, 2021 

• Making Small Towns Special: How to Afford Public Art, Snyder and Associates, 2016

• Creating, Collaborating, Connecting with Art, Activism, and the Internet by Xavier Cortada

• Minding your RFP’s and Q’s by Elizabeth Keithline

• Copyrights & Copywrongs: A Quick Overview of Basic Issues by Clark Wiegman

• Creating, Collaborating, Connecting with Art, Activism, and the Internet by Xavier Cortada

• Public Art Insurance:  what you need to know, from New England Foundation for the Arts

• Public Art Creates an Elevated Mood by Helen Lessick

• Guerilla Tactics, Local Authenticity, and Socially Engaged Artists by Letitia Fernandez Ivins

• Artists Evaluating Their Own Public Art by Lajos Heder

• Changing Art, Changing Habits by  Bill Mackey

• Why Public Art is Good for All Artists by Cathy Breslaw

• Working on a Public Site by Lajos Heder

• Politics and Practice of Community Public Art: Whose Murals Get Saved?John Pitman Weber, 2004