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

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The common practice for this component is to develop educational materials based on the public art collection. Limitations There are several limitations of this study which need to be addressed.These include the lack of current empirical research and literature on the topic, the selection of the plans reviewed in this analysis, and also the relationship between political propensity to support the arts and the sophistication of the public art master plan. There is a lack of relevant literature on the specific topic of public art master planning for municipal government.A Detailed Statistical Report on the Budgets and Programming of the Nation's Public Art Programs During Fiscal Year 2001 is the most significant research done on this topic but may not reflect current trends, as it was conducted in 2001. Additionally, while this study did differentiate between government run programs and those in nonprofit organizations, it did not specify whether the programs were municipal governments. Some were government transit authorities, public universities, and state agencies. In addition, some of the literature reviewed for this analysis, including the survey of public art programs was produced by Americans for the Arts, an arts advocacy group. While the methodology was sound, some bias may exist in this work. Additional research is needed on this topic to form a better model of best practices in municipal government master planning for public art. The sample of plans selected for this analysis was weighted based on the existence of public art programs in different population groups, but they were not selected randomly. Due to a lack of an authoritative source on the cities that have undertaken public art master planning, these plans were selected based on availability. This study would be improved if the plans were selected randomly from a sample of cities that have public art master plans. In addition, a larger sample would benefit this analysis. 29