Forecast Public Art

What kind of future do we want to build together?
Image: an immigrant stories gathering space, CarryOn Homes was temporarily installed in St Paul’s City Hall Plaza during the Larry Cohen Recognition Project’s 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.
Read | FORWARD Issue 4: Redefining Sustainable Design in Indian Country
A collaboration with MASS Design Group, guest edited by Joseph Kunkel
View the latest Public Art Now collection
Guest curator Mary V Bordeaux asks, “What does public art mean to me, as a Lakota person?”
Support our new Public Art for Racial Justice Fund
Image: we donated support to All Here Together for a mural focused on Black history in the Fairfield District of Huntington, WV. Mural by Ernel Martinez.
WATCH | Public Art Now conversation with Amina Cooper
with artists Lava Thomas and Martha Jackson Jarvis
WATCH | Decolonizing Public Spaces
WATCH | Art, Design, and Justice
a FORWARD series conversation with Joseph Kunkel, Jeremy Liu, & Angela Two Stars

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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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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

Congratulations to these artists who enlivened the fairgrounds with four new murals for the second year of the Joyful World Mural Park

These artists painted 4 new murals at the 2022 MN State Fair Joyful World Mural Park

Our team thoughtfully recommends artists through the lenses of racial and gender equity

Continuing to disrupt the mural festival status quo through artist selection for Chroma Zone 2022

In the middle of a pandemic, community artist liaisons developed a series of engagements that made community members feel valued, respected, safe, and heard

Forecast + partners awarded for community engagement work on Rice Street Visioning Study

Jessica Mehta, Public Art Now guest curator for FORWARD#5, and Forecast Change Lab Research Fellow on Indigenous Visibility in Public Art

Our next Public Art Now guest curator is Jessica Mehta, who is also our Change Lab Research Fellow on Indigenous Visibility in Public Art

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

Photo: At a Rice Street Visioning Project creative pop-up in September 2020, community members of all ages in Saint Paul, Minnesota shared with artist liaisons their vision for the future of their neighborhood.

A smiling young BIPOC child at an outdoor creative community event holds up a sign that reads, "my vision for Rice Street: BLM." In the background people interact at various stands. Colorful paper elements hang around the child.

How to Strengthen Your Next Community Engagement Project, from Jen Krava, Forecast Dir. of Programming

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

Read | FORWARD Issue 4: Redefining Sustainable Design in Indian Country

View the latest Public Art Now collection

Support our new Public Art for Racial Justice Fund

WATCH | Public Art Now conversation with Amina Cooper

WATCH | Decolonizing Public Spaces

WATCH | Art, Design, and Justice