Airports

(See also Transportation)

Online Reading

Arrive, Depart, & Be Inspired by Constance White

Other Resources

Arts in the Airport

Community Art

(See Social Practice Art)

Creative Placemaking

(See also Urban Design)

Online Reading

Public Art: An Inherent Component of Creative Placemaking (from Arts Watch) by Liesel Fenner, ARTSblog
Helping to Define a Sense of Place in Communities by Tatiana Hernandez, ARTSblog
Understanding Our Collective Sense of Place by Liesel Fenner, ARTSblog
Placemaking, Public Art, & Community Process: A Folklorist’s Perspective Part 1 by Brendon Greaves, ARTSblog
Placemaking, Public Art, & Community Process: A Folklorist’s Perspective Part 2 by Brendon Greaves, ARTSblog
Assessing Cultural Infrastructure by G. Martin Moeller, Jr. and Scott Kratz, ARTSblog
Creative Placemaking as Continuous Exchange by Laura Ng, ARTSblog
Places in the Making by Susan Silberberg, MIT Urban Planning
Principles of Creative Placemaking by ArtPlace America
Defining Creative Placemaking by Jason Schupbach, National Endowment for the Arts
Creative Placemaking 101 for Community Developers by Anne Gadwa Nicodemus, Institute for Comprehensive Community Development
Creative Placemaking Has an Outcome Problems by Ian David Moss, Createquity
What is Creative Placemaking by Reconnecting to Our Waterways

Print Reading

Creative Placemaking by Ann Markusen and Anne Gadwa
Art, Space and the City: Public Art and Urban Futures by Miles Malcolm
The Power of Place: Urban Landscapes as Public History by Dolores Hayden
The Lure of the Local: Senses of Place in a Multicentered Society by Lucy R. Lippard
The Citizen Artist: 20 Years of Art in the Public Arena: An Anthology from High Performance Magazine 1978-1998 by Linda Frye Burnham and Steven Durland, Editors
The Art of Placemaking: Interpreting Community Through Public Art and Urban Design by Ronald Lee Fleming
The Experience of Place by Tony Hiss
Place Making by Charles C. Bohl
Evictions: Art & Spatial Politics by Roslyn Deutsche
The Art-Architecture Complex by Hal Foster
Conversations on Sculpture by Glenn Harper and Twylene Moyer
A Sculpture Reader: Contemporary Sculpture Since 1980 by Glenn Harper and Twylene Moyer
Learning Mind: Experience into Art by Mary Jane Jacobs and Jacquelynn Baas, Editors

Learning Opportunities

Certification Creative Placemaking
Blueprint for Public Art and Placemaking: An Introduction to Developing Creative Communities through Art 

Other Sources

Projects for Public Spaces
Design Observer
Artscape DIY
PlaceShakers
Center for Creative Placemaking
The National Consortium for Creative Placemaking
 

Ecology Art (Eco-friendly Art)

(See Sustainable Art)

Environmental Art

(For environmentally-friendly and sustainable art, see Sustainable Art)

Print Readings

Gardens of Revelation: Environments by Visionary Artists by John Beardsley
Earthworks and Beyond: Contemporary Art in the Landscape by John Beardsley
Landscape Art by Francisco Asensio Cerver, Arco Editorial Board, Barcelona Spain, 1995
Landscape for Art: Contemporary Sculpture Parks by Glen Harper and Twylene Moyer
Out of Place: Restoring Identity to the Regional Landscape by Michael Hough
Land and Environmental Art by Jeffry Kastner
Land Art (Basic Art) by Michael Lailach
The New Earthwork (Perspectives on Contemporary Sculpture) by Twylene Moyer and Glenn Harper, Editors
Sculpting with the Environment: An Natural Dialogue (Landscape Architecture) by Baile Oakes, Editor
Land Art by Ben Turfnell

Green Art

(See Sustainable Art)

Health Care

Land Art

(See also Environmental Art)

Print Readings

Earthworks and Beyond: Contemporary Art in the Landscape by John Beardsley
Landscape Art by Francisco Asensio Cerver, Arco Editorial Board, Barcelona Spain, 1995
Out of Place: Restoring Identity to the Regional Landscape by Michael Hough
Land and Environmental Art by Jeffry Kastner
Land Art (Basic Art) by Michael Lailach
The New Earthwork (Perspectives on Contemporary Sculpture) by Twylene Moyer and Glenn Harper, Editors
Sculpting with the Environment: An Natural Dialogue (Landscape Architecture) by Baile Oakes, Editor
Land Art by Ben Turfnell

Learning Opportunties

Land Arts of the American West

Monuments and Memorials

Online Reading

The Art of Memorial Making by Victoria Ford

Print Reading

Memorial Mania by Erika Doss
The Unfinished Bombing: Oklahoma City in American Memory by Edward T. Linethal
Monument Wars by Kirk Savage

Murals

[See also Street Art (Graffiti Art)]

Online Readings

Cultural Patrimony: Learning to Save Los Angeles' Mural Legacy by Felipe Sanchez, ARTSblog

Print Readings

On the Wall: Four Decades of Community Murals in New York City by Janet Braun-Reinitz, Jane Weissman and Amy Goodman
Toward a People’s Art: The Contemporary Mural Movement by Eva Sperling Cockcroft
Signs from the Heart: California Chicano Murals by Eva Sperling Cockcroft and Holly Barnet-Sanchez
Street Art San Francisco: Mission Muralismo by Annice Jacoby
A Guide to Chicago’s Murals by Mary L. Gray
Mural Art: Murals on Huge Public Surfaces Around the World from Graffiti to Trompe l’oeil (Volume 2) by Kiriakos Iosifidis
Mural Art: Murals on Huge Public Surfaces Around the World from Graffiti to Trompe l’oeil (Volume 3) by Kiriakos Iosifidis
If These Walls Could Talk: Community Muralism and the Beauty of Justice by Maureen O’Connell

New Genre Art

(See Social Practice Art)

Sculpture Parks

(See also Environmental Art)

Print Readings

Gardens of Revelation: Environments by Visionary Artists by John Beardsley
Landscape for Art: Contemporary Sculpture Parks by Glen Harper and Twylene Moyer

Social Engagement

(See Social Practice Art)

Social Practice Art

Online Reading

Guerilla Tactics, Local Authenticity, and Socially Engage Artists by Letitia Fernandez Ivins, ARTSblog

Print Reading

Education for Socially Engage Art by Pablo Helguera
Social Works: Performing Art, Supporting Politics by Shannon Jackson
Culture in Action: A Public Art Program of Sculpture Chicago by Mary Jane Jacob, Michael Brenson and Eva M Olson
The One and the Many: Contemporary Collaborative Art in a Global Context by Grant Kester
Conversation Pieces: The Role of Dialogue in Socially Engaged Art by Grant Kester
Mapping the Terrain: New Genre Public Art by Suzanne Lacy, Editor
Living as Form: Socially Engaged Art from 1991-2011 by Nato Thompson
The Interventionists: Users’ Manual for the Creative Disruption of Everyday Life by Nato Thompson and Gregory Sholetter, Editors

Online Learning

Beyond Good Intentions: Public Art Practices for Achieving Community Engagement and Social Change

Other Sources

Creative Time
Social Practice Art Network
Community Art Network (CAN) Archive/Art in the Public Interest
Animating Democracy

Street Art (Graffiti Art)

(See also Murals)

Online Readings

Grassroots Public Art and Political Power by Cameron Russell, ARTSblog

Print Readings

On the Wall: Four Decades of Community Murals in New York City by Janet Braun-Reinitz, Jane Weissman and Amy Goodman
Toward a People’s Art: The Contemporary Mural Movement by Eva Sperling Cockcroft
Signs from the Heart: California Chicano Murals by Eva Sperling Cockcroft and Holly Barnet-Sanchez
Street Art San Francisco: Mission Muralismo by Annice Jacoby
Mural Art: Murals on Huge Public Surfaces Around the World from Graffiti to Trompe l’oeil (Volume 2) by Kiriakos Iosifidis
Mural Art: Murals on Huge Public Surfaces Around the World from Graffiti to Trompe l’oeil (Volume 3) by Kiriakos Iosifidis

Online Learning

Public Art/Street Art (Webinar)
 

Sustainable Art

Tourism

Online Reading

How the Arts and Cultural Tourism Spur Economic Development by Craig Watson, Western City

Print Reading

On the Beaten Track: Tourism, Art and Place by Lucy R. Lippard

Other Sources

National Assembly of State Arts Agencies: Cultural Tourism Resources page

Temporary Artworks

Online Reading

“It’s Not Forever”: Temporary Works and Deaccessioning by Ciara McKeown, ARTSblog
Temporary Installations and Creative Reuse by Jeff Huebner, Forecast Public Art

Transportation

Urban Design

(See also Creative Placemaking, and for more on sustainablity see Sustainable Art)

Print Readings

CITY – Rediscovering the Center by William H. Whyte
A Patter Language: Towns, Buildings, Construction by Christopher Alexander, Sara Ishikawa and Murray Silverstein
Design of Cities by Edmund N. Bacon
Robert Moses and the Modern City: The Transformation of New York by Ballon and Jackson
People Places: Design Guidelines for Urban Open Spaces by Clare Cooper-Marcus and Carolyn Francis, Editors
Wresting with Moses: How Jane Jacobs Took On New York’s Master Building and Transformed the American City by Anthony Flint
What We See: Advancing the Observations of Jane Jacobs by Stephen A. Goldsmith, Lynne Elizabeth and Arlene Goldbard, Editors
The Death & Life of Great American Cities by Jane Jacobs
The City Reader by Richard LeGates and Frederic Stout, Editors
Landform Building: Architecture’s New Terrain by Stan Allen and Marc McQuade
Invisible Cities by Italo Calvino
The Power Broker: Robert Moses and the Fall of New York by Robert Caro
The City of Collective Memory by Christine Boyer
Community Open Space: Greening Neighborhoods Through Community Action and Land Conservation by Mark Francis, Lisa Cashdan and Lynn Paxson
Planning to Stay: Learning to See the Physical Features of Your Neighborhood by Catherine R. Brow and William R. Morrish
Site Planning by Kevin Lynch and Gary Hack
Streets for People: A Primer for Americans by Bernard Rudofsky
The Seduction of Place: The History and Future of Cities by Joseph Rykwert
The Social Life of Small Urban Spaces by William Whyte

Other Sources

Design Observer
Landform Building