Forecast Public Art

What kind of future do we want to build together?
Image: an immigrant stories gathering space, CarryOn Homes was installed at St Paul City Hall Plaza during the Larry Cohen Recognition Project design, for which Forecast facilitated artist selection. Photo: Zoe Cinel.
Read | FORWARD Issue 5: Housing
A collaboration with NeighborWorks America, guest edited by Paul Singh.
Photo by Rich Ryan, 2021, courtesy Mark-n-Sparks.
WATCH | Not Just Housing: Artists addressing the housing crisis
a FORWARD series talk with Paul Singh, Dr Lisa Yun Lee, Tiff Beatty, Mark Valdez, & Jenn Lamb
Support our new FORWARD Fund
Help us share stories of artists and communities partnering on civic solutions.
We leverage public art to advance justice, health, & human dignity
Image: we partnered with the City of Bloomington to design & manage a process to hire a community curator & designer to develop the WE Mural in South Loop.
WATCH | Art, Design, and Justice
a FORWARD series conversation with Joseph Kunkel, Jeremy Liu, & Angela Two Stars
Support our Public Art for Racial Justice Fund
Image: we donated support to All Here Together for a mural on Black history in the Fairfield District of Huntington, WV. Mural by Ernel Martinez.
WATCH | Decolonizing Public Spaces

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Forecast is a nonprofit organization that activates, inspires, and advocates for public art that advances justice, health, and human dignity.

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Join us in creating real, responsive changes to public art policies and practices that advance justice, health, and human dignity in communities across the U.S.

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WHAT’S HAPPENING AT FORECAST

A 5-week virtual workshop for MN-based BIPOC individuals with little to no public art consulting experience. Start on the path to public art consulting; apply by February 5.

The State Arts Council urges artists + arts administrators in New Jersey to utilize this free training opportunity.

Are you an artist or arts administrator in New Jersey? Register by February 14 for a free training series

15 artists are recipients of our 2023 early- and mid-career grants. $86,000 will support 13 independent projects, leadership and professional development, risk-taking, multidisciplinary approaches, and collaborative problem-solving in the field of public art.

A grid of 14 artist headshots includes a variety of genders and skin tones

Congratulations to Forecast’s 2023 Early- and Mid-Career Grant Recipients! We are proud of, and thrilled for, this incredible group of artists.

two people sit with heads bowed on stage in a darkened, full auditorium lit by dangling strands of light. Text reads, we are listening, launching in 2023 national public art listening sessions for BIPOC artists and admins

With support from funders and donors, our team will facilitate creative listening sessions for BIPOC artists and admins in 5 U.S. regions in 2023.

In this mural, Gregg Deal creates conversation starters about one of the most prevalent and media-grabbing issues in Indian country: violence against women, girls, and Two-Spirit (2S) people.

A mural of a young Native person includes a red handprint over their mouth and red earring. The figure wears a tshirt reading The Interruptors. The title “Public Art Now, leading voices sharing public art of the moment” overlays the image.

Coming soon—our next Public Art Now conversation. Browse the collection now, and join us in February for a conversation with curator Jessica Mehta

Created in partnership with NeighborWorks America and guest editor Paul Singh, with inspiring case studies and a featured interview with Lisa Lee & Tiff Beatty (National Public Housing Museum). Find a Toolkit packed with resources for working creatively in the housing sector, and a Public Art Now collection guest-curated by Jessica Mehta.

On the welcome page of the new FORWARD Issue 5: Housing, a masked audience in a semi-circle surround a microphone. The headline reads, How creative projects and partnerships raise visibility and spur action around critical housing issues

OUT NOW—FORWARD Issue 5 highlights projects and partnerships that use art and creativity to raise visibility and spur action around critical housing issues

Amidst a national housing crisis, artists continue to push for bold solutions that aim at alleviating the root causes of housing instability and inequity. Learn how artists are partnering with housing organizations and others to help bring about housing justice.

A colorful text graphic includes the headshots of five people identified as Paul Singh, Dr. Lisa Yun Lee, Jenn Lamb, Mark Valdez, and Tiff Beatty, along with Forecast's logos and the event title Not Just Housing: Artists Addressing the Housing Crisis on November 15, Noon CT / 1:00pm ET, live on Zoom.

WATCH | Not Just Housing: Artists addressing the housing crisis. From our FORWARD series.

FORWARD voices, issues 1-5: (Row 1) Karen Olson, Dr. Mindy Fullilove, Ben Stone, Charles T. Brown; (2) Tricia Heuring, Mallory Rukhsana Nezam, Andrea Jenkins, Dr. André de Quadros, Amina Cooper; (3) Dr. Meghan Venable-Thomas, Joseph Kunkel, Jeremy Liu, Mary V. Bordeaux, Lynn M. Cuny; (4) Paul Singh, Dr. Lisa Yun Lee, Tiff Beatty, Scott Oshima, Jessica Mehta.

Do you believe that artists play a vital role in addressing critical civic issues? Help us launch our new FORWARD Fund with a gift

Rendering courtesy Jackson Jarvis Studio/OLIN + OMA.

A rendering depicts large colorful hoops of varying size, up to two or three times the height of a person, that are spaced throughout a grassy tree-filled park filled with people who are relaxing and playing.

Forecast leads selection process for major artwork commissioning in Washington DC 11th Street Bridge Park—all local, all-women artist teams

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Your gift today will seed this new fund and allow us to donate our time and expertise to artists and communities as they confront racial inequities in their public art.

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What kind of future do we want to build together?

Read | FORWARD Issue 5: Housing

WATCH | Not Just Housing: Artists addressing the housing crisis

Support our new FORWARD Fund

We leverage public art to advance justice, health, & human dignity

WATCH | Art, Design, and Justice

Support our Public Art for Racial Justice Fund

WATCH | Decolonizing Public Spaces