Overview

Typology

Significance featuring select projects initiated by state agencies/authorities municipalities institutions private sector

Funding Models capital improvement/percent for art: federal, state, municipal private: initiatives, foundations

Best Practices Summary

Edward Everett Square Pear, Dorchester, MA . Laura Baring-Gould. Public works consultant: Edwards and Kelcey Howard Taft School, Brighton, MA. Harold Connolly Tribute. Pablo Eduardo

Honan-Allston Library, Boston, MA . Four Tree Guards and Four Bicycle Racks. Richard Duca Public Art Network of Americans for the Arts | Year in Review award 2007

Mitch Ryerson, Wave Bench, Fresh Pond Reservoir, Cambridge, MA

Mesa Arts and Entertainment Center, Mesa, AZ. Light Walk: Beth Galston IBN Nature Research Institute, Wageningen/Netherlands. Behnisch Architekten. Sustainable systems landscape: Michael Singer

MBTA Airport Station, Boston, MA. Architect: Wallace, Floyd Associates. Totems of Light etched glass: Linda Lichtman

Union Station Fed. Courthouse, Tacoma, WA. Reed & Stem, 1911. 1990s GSA redesign. Glass: Dale Chihuly US Courthouse, Erie, PA. KSBA / DPK & A, Architects Glass: David Wilson. Photo: Richard Walker

Zakim Bridge, Boston, MA. Lighting design: James Carpenter Grasshopper Bridge, Phoenix, AZ. Ed Carpenter

Waterworks at Arizona Falls, Phoenix, AZ Steve Martino Associates, landscape architect

with Harries Héder Collaborative

Concord River Greenway Master Plan, Lowell, MA Earth Tech planning/engineering. Public Art Master Plan by Harries Heder Collaborative

South Bay Harbor Trail Environmental Communications & Wayfinding Master Plan by Selbert Perkins Design Collaborative

Millennium Park, Chicago, IL Terry Guen Design Associates: Landscape Design Frank Gehry: Pritzker Pavilion & Pedestrian Bridge. Jaume Plensa: Crown Fountain. Anish Kapoor: Cloud Gate.

Project Director: Edward K. Uhlir. Plaza with bar and food during the summer and ice rink in winter. Photos: Mark Gallagher

Porto, Portugal. Placa Cidade de Salvador, Waterfront Plaza by Janet Echelman Geronimo Springs, NM. Las Palomas Plaza ceramic design with water channel by Shel Neymark

Phoenix, AZ. Desert Ridge Marketplace Stage with water wall ceramics by BJ Katz

…art as everyday experience Whitney Museum Biennial 2004 at Central Park, NYC

Central Park Skate Circle painting by Assume Vivid Astro Focus Cacti at 5th Avenue and 60th Street by Liz Craft

Unna, Germany. River temporary light installation by Leni Schwendinger

Navy Pier, Chicago. You windsocks by Actual Size Artworks

Water Fire, Providence, RI Annual summer program since 1994, created by Barnaby Evans

Fort Point Cultural Coalition Public Art Series, Boston, MA Summer Street Bridge, Redefining Open Space, Phase 1 by Lisa Greenfield & Jennifer Moses

Bicycle Parade and Block Party by Melora Kuhn

ICA Vita Brevis Series Bunker Jill Monument 1998 Let Freedom Ring Krzysztof Wodiczko

Old Northern Avenue Bridge 2005 Suzanne Walking & Julian Walking Julian Opie

ICA Artists-in-Residence Series Charlestown Navy Yard 2000 Pumphouse Christopher Frost

Paul Revere House 2004 Re-turning the Past: Cultural Icons Recast Niho Kozuru

Design Excellence •  Contributes to the enhancement of a cityscape, creates a sense of place, or improves

the design qualities of public infrastructure •  Enlivens public space by creating a sense of serendipity and discovery

Fosters civic participation and community support of our public spaces

•  Promotes local urban and economic development by creating opportunities •  Gives a sense of community identity though unique functional elements

Enriches our cultural legacy •  Makes sense of communities by creating landmarks, directional elements, and defining

neighborhoods and districts •  Fosters collective memory and gives meaning to place by recalling local and regional

history. •  Gives visual expression to local cultural identity

Source: Public Art Funding, Americans for the Arts Monograph, 2000. 12 pp. Download at http://www.artsusa.org/pdf/networks/pan/brown_rubin_funding.pdf

Back Bay/South End Station Neon Stephen Antonakos Three multi-colored neon sculptures installed over stairs and above station Entrances

Harvard Square Station Blue Sky on the Red Line Gyorgy Kepes Glass mural

Stony Brook Station Life Around Here Malou Flato Ceramic tile mural installed on the lobby curved wall

Forest Hills Station Transcendental Greens Dan George Nine polychrome aluminum sculptures attached to each station column

Ruggles Street Station Stony Brook Dance John Scott Kinetic sculpture installed in the concourse lobby

Jackson Square Station. Painted Columns. Roberto Chao and local youth of the Hyde Square Task Force Dudley Square Station. Guide to Architectural Treasures of Roxbury

Charles Street/MGH station. Elkus Manfredi, architect. Artwork by Beacon Hill’s Advent School and Girl Scouts

Logan Airport

Walkways Cambridge 7 Architects Atlantic Journey Terrazzo floors Jane Goldman

Central Garage SE & NE Stair Towers and Elevator Lobbies. TAMS Consultants Rainbow Cove Colored-glass way finding, sound installations Christopher Janney

South Boston Maritime Park Landscape architect: Halvorson Design Partnership, Architect: Machado and Silvetti Associates Artists: Ellen Driscoll and Carlos Dorrien General Design Award of Honor from the American Society of Landscape Architects, 2006

East Boston Piers Park Landscape Architect: Pressley Associates Architects/Engineers: CBT, SEA Consultants Sculptor: William Reimann

Rose Kennedy Greenway. Harbor Fog by Ross Miller. Copley Wolff and EDAW, landscape architects Massachusetts College of Art and Design. Art Wall by James Carpenter

Sheehy Park/Mission Hill Playground, Boston. Interactive Fountain by Ross Miller. Landscape Architect: Peter Jackson Faneuil Hall, Mayor Kevin White Park sculpture by Pablo Eduardo. Landscape Architect: Halvorson Design Partnership

Evelyn Moakley Bridge. Lighting design by John Powell

Quincy Square Park, Cambridge. David Phillips and Halvorson Design Partnership Fresh Pond Waterworks. Drawn Water terrazzo floor, Squirt drinking fountain & viewing fences by Harries Heder

Franklin Street Park. Gateway by Murray Dewart

Plaza design and benches by Richard Fleischner Zesiger Center. Games of Chance and Skill by Matthew Ritchie

Wiesner Building, I.M. Pei, architect. interior staircase with wall design by Kenneth Noland and lobby benches by Scott Burton

Fenway CT Scanner Digital wrap & vinyl floor design, Danny O’

Center for Life Sciences building Elevator bay Impressions of Light glass, Vara Kamin

Kent Street, Brookline—family residence art program

Halvorson Design Partnership, landscape architect Fountains by Howard Ben Tre, ornamental fences by Richard Duca

ASLA Centennial Medallion 1999

Fidelity Investments, Boston Seaport District Eastport Park Boston World Trade Center, South Boston, MA

Halvorson Design Partnership David Phillips, multiple sculptures

Fish Bench, Judy McKie Wind Travelers, Susumu Shingu

Seaport District Hotel at Seaport Boulevard, Dragon Staircase, Wendy Ross