Agenda - Parks and Recreation Commission - 01/09/2025

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valuable and show the link between arts planning and other forms of development. Economic development and tourism are two key areas which are argued to be particularly pertinent to public art planning (Hayter& Pierce, 2009). The most significant quantitative analysis of public art in the United States is A Detailed Statistical Report on the Budgets and Programming of the Nation's Public Art Programs During Fiscal Year 2001. This study gives the results of a survey of 350 public art programs in the US. Not all of these programs are directly related to planning for municipal governments, as it includes private programs that are managed by nonprofit organizations, campus public art programs at universities, and state wide policies.The survey had a response rate of 38%with 132 programs responding. The results of this survey provide information on public art programs that are suggestive of their activities in fiscal year 2001. Findings include that the largest and most highly funded programs are those within a government agency. Additionally, 58%of government programs surveyed receive funding from percent-for-art programs. About three quarters (74%) of the programs were bound by some form of public art ordinance or law, and the majority those (86%) provided for funding in some way. Additional statistics are provided about the method of artist selection,the size and composition of the board or commission that has oversight over the program, staffing levels, the utilization of consultants, and the breakdown of public art programs in rural and urban areas. In regard to public art master planning, 31% of the respondents had a public art master plan. It should also be noted that programs that have a public art master plan grow significantly faster and have higher budgets.The study also states that most master plans (62%) were created since 1995 and almost all (92%) are publicly available in their area (Americans for the Arts, 2003). A 2004 publication by Americans for the Arts focuses specifically on best practices for artist selection, a component of public art master plans. In the Public Art Network Issue Paper, Methods of Artist Selection the author presents multiple methods of artist selection, with the two most common 6