Cities gain value through public art – cultural, social, and economic value. Public art is a
distinguishing part of our public history and our evolving culture. It reflects and reveals our society,
adds meaning to our cities and uniqueness to our communities. Public art humanizes the built
environment and invigorates public spaces. It provides an intersection between past, present and
future, between disciplines, and between ideas. Public art is freely accessible.
Public art is a distinguishing part of our public history and our evolving culture. It reflects and reveals our society, adds meaning to our cities and uniqueness to our communities. Public art humanizes the built environment and invigorates public spaces. Cities and towns aspire to be places where people want to live and want to visit. Having a particular community identity, especially in terms of what our towns look like, is becoming even more important in a world. When we think about memorable places, we think about their icons – consider the St. Louis Arch, the totem poles of Vancouver, Cloud Gate in Chicago's Millennium Park are intertwined with our images of those cities. Public art is uniquely accessible and enables people to experience art in the course of daily life, outside of museums or other cultural institutions. Public art provides everyone in the community direct and on- going encounters with art.