Public art & culture Plans
Our Public Art Vision
Public art has become more complex, process oriented, collaborative and experimental. Artists of all disciplines wish to engage and enhance our communities in new ways, creatively addressing a community’s needs as identified by its residents and stakeholders such as the environment, community health, cultural diversity, youth development, and attracting tourists.
Public artwork facilitates advancement of civic goals by describing concepts, expressing community interests, providing distinct and novel character, and/or offering greater understanding and discussion around the art’s site and its utility.
In addition to beautifying our shared spaces, public art goes beyond murals, monuments and memorials. It offers more than decoration or information, and should not be simply a new version of projects seen elsewhere. Public art contributes to placemaking, opens a process of seeing anew, shifts the ground beneath our feet, and generates transformations in experience and perception. Public art creates a sense of connection to place - a sense of belonging, of community, of service. It generates new forms of dialogue and creates a recognition of something shared, perhaps hard to define. It challenges by raising questions that may remain unresolved.
Our Process
Phase I: Discovery
Collect public input and onsite local data.
Phase II: Analysis
Discover themes and opportunities
Phase III: Plan
Develop vision and strategic plans
Phase IV: Activations
Demonstrating possibilities: concept designs
Some Plans we’ve developed with communities
As the field of public art rapidly expands, many cities find they need to update and improve the way they plan and manage their public art programs while finding new ways to maximize their investment in public art, to the benefit of their economy, their culture and their community. Group Creative Services exists to facilitate this transformation.