Public Art Defined

For purposes of this Public Art Review Committee, “public art" is defined as artwork located in or on a public space such as a municipal facility, park, right-of-way, or other municipally owned or controlled property. Artwork includes but is not limited to a painting, mural, inscription, stained glass, fiber work, statue, relief or sculpture, monument, fountain, arch, or other structures intended for ornament or commemoration. Also included in this definition is any installation that is technological in nature or includes carvings, frescoes, mosaics, mobiles, photographs, drawings, collages, prints, crafts, both decorative and utilitarian in clay, fiber, wood, metal, glass plastics, and other materials. Landscape items include the artistic placement of natural materials and other function art objects. Works of art may be portable as well as permanent. 

Public art does not include objects that are mass-produced from a standard design or reproductions of original art works unless of limited edition; decorative, ornamental, or functional elements, which are designed by the building architect; landscape architecture and landscape gardening except where these elements are an integral part of the artwork by the artist; directional elements such as super graphics, signage, or color coding except where these elements are integral parts of an original work of art; and logos, corporate identifiers, or other forms of branding and advertising.