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Suggested Reading

Starting a program and need to learn the details of planning, funding and administering programs and projects?

Public Art by the Book
Edited by Barbara Goldstein

Interested in getting your first commission?

The Artists Guide to Public Art
Edited by Lynn Basa

Interested in public art and social practice and community engagement?

Living as Form
Edited by Creative Time’s Nato Thompson.

All of the books above are available at a discount for Americans for the Arts members in our online bookstore.

Selected Bibliography

Download a suggested bibliography of publications on Public Art, Design, Placemaking and more. (PDF, 67KB)

Suggested Web links including magazines and journals 

The Forecast says check out Public Art Review (PAR). A must-bookmark public art site and magazine:

• http://forecastpublicart.org/

Advocacy and promotion: Need photos of different types of public art?

• Art on File
• Public Art Archive

Archival Information

• Community Art Network

Community engagement is the focus of this Americans for the Arts' new Website

• Animating Democracy

Conservation of art: Looking for a conservator?

• American Institute for Conservation

Cutting-edge contemporary art projects in the public realm. Check out their events too!

• Creative Time

Funding:

• National Endowment for the Arts
• A new funding collaborative: ArtPlace
• Check your state for funding: National Assembly of State Arts Agencies

International

• Europe: Art-Public
• United Kingdon: Ixia Public Art

Making murals

• Mural Arts
• Heritage Preservation

Maps and apps! Visiting a new city? Check to see if their collection is mapped!

• CultureNOW
• Heading to Philadelphia? http://museumwithoutwallsaudio.org/

Sculpture: includes the magazine, annual conference and more:

• International Sculpture Center

Temporary projects in New York City by leading contemporary artists:

• Public Art Fund

Theory and practice converge

• Public Art Dialogue (PAD)

Urban Design/Placemaking

• Projects for Public Spaces:
• Design Observer

Download this reference list as a PDF. (550KB)