Percent for Art
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The term "percent for art" refers to a program, often a city ordinance, where a fee, usually some percentage of the project cost, is placed on large scale development projects in order to fund and install public art
. The details of such programs vary from area-to-area. Similar programs, such as "art in public places", attempt to achieve similar goals by requiring that public art be part of a project, yet they often allow developers to pay in-lieu fees to a public art fund as an alternative.
Percent-for-art programs are used to fund public art
where private or specialized funding of public art is unavailable.
Public art
The term public art properly refers to works of art in any media that have been planned and executed with the specific intention of being sited or staged in the physical public domain, usually outside and accessible to all...
. The details of such programs vary from area-to-area. Similar programs, such as "art in public places", attempt to achieve similar goals by requiring that public art be part of a project, yet they often allow developers to pay in-lieu fees to a public art fund as an alternative.
Percent-for-art programs are used to fund public art
Public art
The term public art properly refers to works of art in any media that have been planned and executed with the specific intention of being sited or staged in the physical public domain, usually outside and accessible to all...
where private or specialized funding of public art is unavailable.
Programs
- Hawaii
- Philadelphia
- New York
- Chicago
- San Francisco
- Minnesota
- Chapel Hill
- Ohio
- Oregon
- Montana
- New Hampshire
- Western Australia
- Palm Desert
- New Haven
- Toronto
- Massachusetts Institute of Technology
- Roanoke, Virginia