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ATTEND | Artists + Climate Change Solutions
with Emma Robbins, Travis Sheridan, Dr. Galen Treuer, Dec. 8 @1pm CT

Photo: Trust for Public Land
What kind of future do we want to build together?
Image: CarryOn Homes at St Paul City Hall Plaza during Larry Cohen Recognition Project design, for which Forecast facilitated artist selection.

Photo: Zoe Cinel
Support our Public Art for Racial Justice work
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 | Reimagining Public Art in America
Report presentation + peer exchange
WATCH | Public Art Now: Indigenous Public Art
with Jessica Mehta and Gregg Deal
READ | Insights from the Field
Four Cities, Four Leaders, Driving for Equitable Change in Public Art
Browse | FORWARD Issue 5: Housing
A collaboration with NeighborWorks America

Photo: Rich Ryan, 2021, courtesy Mark-n-Sparks
Support our FORWARD series
Help us share stories of artists + communities partnering on civic solutions

Photo: Trilogy Beats courtesy Sidewalk Detroit

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Register now for our latest FORWARD series conversation and learn how public artists are, and can be, critical partners for climate resilience.

an event graphic for Artists + Climate Change Solutions, a FORWARD series discussion from Forecast Public Art, with speakers Emma Robbins, Travish Sheridan, and Dr Galen Treuer, December 8 at 1pm CT

Register now for our latest FORWARD series conversation, Artists + Climate Change Solutions, 12/8 at 1:00pm CST.

Fill out the form on our Change Lab page to download an analysis of our nationwide listening effort and the recommendations we heard from BIPOC artists and leaders around the country.

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Register to download our Reimagining Public Art focus group analysis report. Then, CONNECT with us. Let’s work together to make public art more equitable.

The artists:
Hend Al-Mansour, Leslie Barlow, Philipo Dyauli, Sydney G James, Max Sansing, and Wes Winship.

Part of our Chroma Zone role is to disrupt the mural festival status quo. We thoughtfully select and recommend artists through the lenses of racial and gender equity.

Chroma Zone Mural + Art Festival 2023 artists, continuing to disrupt the mural festival status quo.

This years-long project was achieved through a community-led effort and in collaboration with the San Francisco Arts Commission, Human Rights Commission, and Recreation and Parks Department.

on a report cover titled San Francisco Monuments and Memorials Advisory Committee Final Report and dated May 2023, a bustling city street is lit at night at a paved brick corner featuring Lotta's Fountain, a bronze-painted cast-iron fountain with lion's head spigots, with a blurry trolley speeding past and background buildings glowing from lit windows

We are proud to present the San Francisco Monuments and Memorials Advisory Committee final report.

Our team recently presented a new Public Art Strategic Plan for Creative Waco and the City of Waco. Raj Solanki, local comic artist and freelance illustrator, created our graphic visualization of the plan.

an illustrated cover with the text Bridges to Public Art, a Strategic Plan for Public Art in Waco, TX with drawings of an aerial view of a bridge over a river before a tree-filled cityscape

An artist-designed plan will guide Waco on strategic public art decisions. View our plan presentation.

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.

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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ATTEND | Artists + Climate Change Solutions

What kind of future do we want to build together?

Support our Public Art for Racial Justice work

WATCH | Reimagining Public Art in America

WATCH | Public Art Now: Indigenous Public Art

READ | Insights from the Field

Browse | FORWARD Issue 5: Housing

Support our FORWARD series