7000 Oaks
Joseph Beuys' environmental arts project to plant 7,000 oak trees throughout Kassel, Germany, the first stage in a global scheme of tree planting to effect environmental and social change. Being continued after Beuys' death by Dia Center for the Arts.

ART on FILE
Large online collection of images on public art and the built environment.

Aesthetic Grounds
Weblog on public art and public space by Glenn Weiss, planner for public art, architecture and urban design in suburban Coral Springs, Fla. Site includes gallery of public art. One of many blogs on artsjournal.com/

Africancolours.com
A portal to African visual art, including connections to artists and galleries, public art, magazines, archives, training, artists rights, indexes and products for sale

Alan Potter Public Art and Design
British artist with more than 50 public commissions for cities, towns, hospitals, universities, colleges, schools, public parks and nature reserves.

Americans for the Arts
Advocacy organization supporting more money for the arts, arts education for every child and community development through the arts; includes online research and policy database. Includes Animating Democracy initiative and Public Art Network.

Armory Center for the Arts
Community arts center in Pasadena, Calif., with prodigious gallery, studio, community, education and public art programs. Site includes "Neighborhood Art Projects" map/guide to public art throughout the Pasadena area created by participants in Armory programs. Began as the education department of the legendary Pasadena Art Museum; now located in renovated National Guard Armory and ancillary sites in Old Pasadena.

Art & Architecture Journal
Quarterly print journal of contemporary art and architecture focusing on art in the public context. Founded in U.K. 1980, relaunched 1995. Comments on public art and design worldwide including: commemorative and memorial public art, environmental and land art, sculpture parks and gardens, urban regeneration, art in health, education and training, critical debate and dialogue, temporary projects, performance and installations, festivals and biennials, political and community issuee, experimental areas of film, digital media and sound, literature, dance and music.

Art & Community Landscapes
Partnership of the National Park Service the New England Foundation for the Arts (NEFA) and NEA supporting residency projects to inspire greater involvement in protecting and enhancing rivers, trails, and greenways in collaboration with local communities.

Art Farm Project
Art exhibitions outdoors at Middle Rocombe Farm, an organic farm near Newton Abbot, Devon, England. Artists in South Devon used redundant farm buildings and surrounding landscape to produce large exhibitions and create an artist network.

Art That Works: T. Allan Comp and the Reclamation of a Toxic Legacy
Profile of T. Allan Comp, founder of AMD&Art (Acid Mine Drainage and Art), a project to reclaim toxic former coalmines using science, design, sculpture and history. Discusses community involvement in a reclamation project in Vintondale, Pa. By Eric Reece, author of "Lost Mountain: Radical Strip Mining and the Devastation of Appalachia" (Riverhead, 2006). Published online in DemocraticVistasProfiles: Essays in the Arts and Democracy by the Center for Arts Policy, Columbia College Chicago, 2006. 12 pp.

Art in the Park Community Arts
Community-driven large-scale events, projects and arts partnerships in Lewisburg, W.V. Annual themes (ex., 2005: arts and environmental education; massive sculpture installation on local natural history at Dorie Miller Park).

Art-public.com
Paris-based online magazine about European public art; access by subscription.

ArtFBI
ArtFBI = Art For a Better Image, project by artist Jeff Gates, including "In Our Path" about building of L.A.'s Century Freeway and impact on people who lived in its path.

ArtSpan
ArtSpan produces San Francisco Open Studios and Inner City Public Art Projects for Youth, publishes A Free Guide to San Francisco Open Studios, and organizes workshops to help artists with professional development.

Artangel
British arts group creating massive, site-specific public art in all media.

Baltimore Clayworks
Nonprofit, artist-run ceramic-art center Baltimore, Md. Neighborhood collaborative public-art-making activities; studios; exhibitions; community-based murals; classes; in-school after-school programs. Founded 1980 by nine potters and ceramic sculptors

Banksy
Activist U.K. graffiti artist and "art terrorist" who mocks arts institutions and (lately) the wall between Israel and Palestine (see "News").

Barefoot Artists
Public art team that "brings the transformative power of art to the most impoverished communities in the world." Includes Rwanda Healing Project. Founded by Lily Yeh.

Billboard Liberation Front
Culture jammers who "improve outdoor advertising." Founded 1977 in San Francisco, Calif.

Bird Brain
"Navigational project" by Jennifer Monson and dance company: five-year investigation of migratory pathways of whales and birds across northern and southern hemispheres.

Black Rock Art Foundation
Nonprofit organization based in San Francisco, Calif., promoting and supporting community-based interactive art. Programs: artist grants, community development, exhibitions, educational outreach, career development. Founded 2001 by individuals who direct Burning Man; incorporated in Nevada.

Bridge Project
Binational, site-specific installation for The Bridge of the Americas spanning Rio Grande/Rio Bravo from El Paso, Tex., to Juarez, Mex.; designed by artists Chrissie Orr and Carlos Callejo.

Burning Man
Annual five-acre alternative-arts festival in the Nevada desert, instant community drawing 25,000 people annually.

California Public Arts & Mural Society
Assists artists and communities in promoting revitalization of communities through public art. Links to mural towns, map of California mural routes, news, working methods. Based in 29 Palms, California.

California Wash
Environmental artwork by Helen Mayer Harrison and Newton Harrison encompassing a city block at an environmentally degraded state beach in Santa Monica, Calif.

Callington's Mural Trail
Gallery of public works in Callington, East Cornwall, England, a town known nationally for its mural trail.

Camino de Paz Labyrinths
Creator of community labyrinths and peace walks. Directed by artist Ariane Burgess.

Chapel of Sacred Mirrors
Nonprofit organization providing "a sanctuary in New York City for contemplation and a center for events encouraging the creative spirit." Provides a public exhibition of the Sacred Mirrors and other works of contemporary sacred art by Alex Grey. The Sacred Mirrors are 21 images, consisting of 19 life-size paintings and two etched mirrors, examining the anatomy of body, mind and spirit in detail. Full Moon and New Moon gatherings, workshops, EntheoCentric Salons, MicroCosm Gallery openings.

Chicago Public Art Group
Has created over 150 murals, mosaics and sculptures in collaboration with landscape designers, architects and engineers.

Christo & Jean-Claude
Temporary large-scale environmental works in urban and rural environments with elements of painting, sculpture, architecture and urban planning.

City Repair Project
Volunteer grassroots organization in Portland, Ore., that helps people "reclaim their urban spaces to create community-oriented places."

City of Albuquerque Public Art Program
Gallery of public art in Albuquerque, N.M.; well-articulated public art and murals plans; grant guidelines.

Community Arts Council of Vancouver
Community-based public art resource of Vancouver, B.C., Canada.

Community Built Association
National association promoting community-building through involving volunteers in the design, organization and creation of community projects reshaping public space, like murals, playgrounds, parks and public gardens. A Cross-Sector Resource.

Confluence Project
Series of interpretative artworks by artist Maya Lin at seven sites along Lewis & Clark Trail for L&C Bicentennial. Collaboration with Confederated Tribes of the Umatilla, Nez Perce Tribe, et al.

ConjunctionArts Inc.
Public-art organization by artists Bradley McCallum and Jacqueline Terry strengthening citical discourse and practice of civic-based work. Includes documentation of "Witness: Perspectives on Police Violence" and other works. Includes Public Edge Speakers Bureau.

Creative Time
New York City-based nonprofit organization that commissions and presents adventurous public arts projects of all disciplines.

Dance of the WaterSpiders
Robotic WaterSpiders by Remo Campopiano and the Robotic Arts Club of New England, programmed to dance on water in series of random movements. Available for festivals.

Danville Project
Artist-led redesign of Hwy. 2 by citizens of Danville, Vt.

East Cumbria Countryside Project
rural management agency in northwest England. Works to create a diverse and thriving rural area, high quality landscape and wildlife, recreational access, regeneration based on sustainable management of natural resources. Includes Andy Goldworthy's Sheepfolds Sculture Trail and a Poetry Path by local poet Meg Peacocke and stone lettering artist Pip Hall.

FADO Performance
Canadian artist-run "centre without walls," producing public art and performances exploring regional geography and identity, like performances with community choirs in Toronto's subways, and in slum apartments in gentrifying neighborhoods.

Fairmount Park Art Association
"First private, nonprofit organization dedicated to integrating public art and urban planning" in U.S.; based in Philadelphia. Pa.

Gallery 37
Chicago's job-training program for young people, hiring more than 2,600 kids each year as apprentice artists in parks, community centers and schools.

Global Mural Arts & Cultural Tourism Association
Mission: "To market and publicize the abundant wealth of artists, towns and cultural events around the Globe... making this world a better place for all to live in." founded in Chemainus, B.C., Canada by Karl Schutz, who helped that town become a major tourist attraction through its murals programs.

Groundswell Community Mural Project
Nonprofit based in Brooklyn, N.Y., that brings together professional artists, grassroots organizations and communities to create high-quality murals in under-represented neighborhoods. Since 1996, has worked with over 900 community members — including low-income teens, undocumented immigrants, people living with AIDS and multiracial neighborhood associations — to complete over 50 collaboratively designed and painted murals in their neighborhoods.

Groundswell: Constructing the Contemporary Landscape
Documentation of a 2005 exhibition at New York's Museum of Modern Art protraying "the surge of creativity in the contemporary created landscape," presenting new plazas, parks and urban sectors around the world. Three broad themes: Designing the Urban Landscape, Simulations of Nature and New Topographies, The Bad and the Beautiful (reclamation). The show included a symposium (not shown).

Hachivi Edgar Heap of Birds Public Art Gallery
Record of the Native American artist's public art collaborations with communities and their inherent histories. Site includes teaching principles and curriculum.

High Line District
1.5-mile-long (22 blocks) historic elevated rail structure on the West Side of Manhattan in New York City being converted to public open space linking South Hell's Kitchen/Hudson Yards, West Chelsea and the Gansevoort Market Historic District.

IN:SITE
Resource for temporary public art in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, city and county. Locates public and private spaces and resources, links spaces and resources with artists, sponsor sevents to bring people to experience and discuss temporary public art, help with insurance and maintenance of temporary public art.

Independent Street Arts Network
Independent group of presenters and promoters of street arts throughout the U.K. Networking, information sharing, collaboration, lobbying, training and advocacy.

Institute for Applied Autonomy
Team of artists, engineers, designers and activists who "provide technologies which extend the autonomy of human activists," including TXTmob, I-See, Graffitiwriter and Streetwriter.

Ireland's OWN: Murals
Gallery of Republican murals in Belfast, Northern Ireland.

Islands of L.A.
Art-and-curatorial project using traffic islands as public space and venues that can be used by artists to create community and stimulate inquisitive interchanges about topics including public land-use. Conceived by artist Ari Kletzky, 2007.

Ixia
Think tank for public art practice. Forum events, field report, publications, research, public art directory, case studies, e-mail network. Based in Birmingham, England.

Juan Antonio Corretjer Puerto Rican Cultural Center
Nonprofit, community-based umbrella institution founded 1973 by community activists to serve social/cultural needs of Chicago's Puerto Rican/Latino community. Umbrellas Family Learning Center, Consuelo Lee Corretjer Childcare Center, Vida/SIDA HIV and AIDS education and prevention programs; La Casita de Don Pedro community garden and cultural space; Café Batey Urbano cultural space for the youth. Organizes annual Puerto Rican Peoples Parade,co-sponsors Fiesta Boricua annual Puerto Rican music festival. PRCC is the parent organization and provides a space to the Dr. Pedro Albizu Campos High School.

Katikati, Mural Town
A town full of art in New Zealand.

Kuona Trust
Public art program in Nairobi, Kenya, in banks, buses and billboards; workshops, residencies, community programs with artists from African and other countries. Part of Africa CAN (Culture Africa Network), a seven-country partnership amassing a database to preserve African cultural history.

Land
Education and arts project of the East Lancashire Regional Park regeneration initiative led by the Lancashire Economic Partnership in the North of England. Involves local people in making a positive difference to their own surroundings through creative activity led by professional artists. Woodland walks, landscape features, exhibitions, documentation, recordings, teacher training, parades, storytelling.

Laundromat Project
Two laundromat arts centers in Bedford-Stuyvesant and Harlem, N.Y. City; functioning neighborhood coin-operated laundromats where art classes are taught and visual art displayed "to provide communities of color living on modest incomes with broad access to visual art as a tool of personal and social transformation." Programs: Create Change public art residency; Coin-Op Collective Professional Development for Artists and Social Entrepreneurs; Works in Progress arts-education. Staffed by volunteers, graduate students, and undergraduate interns. Founded by Risë Wilson.

Lauren Elder & Co.
Arts company working in all media in public housing, public structures, teens & technology, community parks and school gardens. Based in San Francisco Bay Area.

Locus+
Visual-arts organization in Newcastle, England, that presents challenging contemporary art in nontraditional community settings.

Lynne Hull
Environmental artist "creating Trans-species art and Sculpture for wildlife." Based in Colorado.

Manosegawa River Art Project
"Water Ekiden," created by four communities along the Manosegawa River in Kyshu, Japan, directed by artist Ichi Ikeda. Four water stations constructed to represent the different water situations of each district: to transfer rain water to desert communities; to capture and store spring water; to irrigate rice field with river water; and a canal to carry purified water along a former river bed.

Martha Bowers Dance Theater Etcetera
New York based performance company bringing community members and professional artists together as performers in site-specific works that deal with issues relevant to the surrounding community. Offers training in community art techniques.

Medicine Wheel
Michael Dowling's Boston-based community service project involving hundreds of participants and collaborations with artists, neighborhood groups and community and arts organizations. Includes Medicine Wheel Youth Group, an arts employment program for teens; annual Medicine Wheel installation and vigil; No Man's Land, a reclamation, through gardens, sculpture and pathways, of an abandoned weed lot behind South Boston High School.

Miami-Dade Art in Public Places
One of first U.S. public-art programs in the , with 500 art installations in airports, transit lines, libraries, fire stations, and government buildings. Overseen by 15-member Citizens' Trust appointed by Dade Board of County Commissioners.

Mierle Laderman Ukeles
Artist in residence at the New York City Department of Sanitation since 1977 and Percent-for-Art artist for the Fresh Kills lifescape on Staten Island.

Millennium Trails Billboard Art & Poetry Project
Supported by an NEA-NASAA Arts Projects on Millennium Trails grant, this 2002 project featured art and poetry on six billboards along Interstate 25, El Camino Real, in New Mexico.

Mosaic the City
Artist-led public art project to enhance Victoria, B.C., Canada, with community-created mosaics, starting with Market Square. By Fusion Foundation, Rock Solid Foundations and Out of Hand Gallery.

MunicipalWORKSHOP
Contemporary public art laboratory that works in collaboration with municipalities and community members in hopes of creating more creative and dynamic cities and townships.

Mural Arts Program
Painted more than 2,300 murals throughout Philadelphia, Pa., since 1984. Workshops for young people teach mural and leadership skills. Program of the City of Philadelphia, Pa.

MuralArt.com
Mural expert Robin Dunitz's site offering information on murals in Los Angeles, California, and elsewhere, plus a schedule of mural tours, Mural of the Month, books and links.

Nana Projects
Company of lanterneers and "visual alchemists" creating public spectacles. Best known for an annual Baltimore community event, The Great Halloween Lantern Parade. Offers Parade School training program for artists, community organizers and college students interested in the artistry of community-based parades. Directed by Molly Ross; originally founded in Minneapolis as Theater Nana in 1992.

New Land Marks
Sixteen Philadelphia projects that incorporate artwork into community revitalization, urban greening, neighborhood history and streetscape enhancement. Initiative of Fairmount Park Art Association, oldest U.S. arts group.

Nine Mile Run Greenway Project
Community dialogue on public space, art and ecology with artists, scientists, historians and planners in context of controversial Nine Mile Run development in slag-filled hills of Pittsburgh's East End.

Panopticons
Arts and regeneration project of East Lancashire Regional Park initiative led by the Lancashire Economic Partnership in the North of England to erect 21st century landmarks (Panopticons) across East Lancashire 2003-2007, as symbols of the renaissance of the area.

Patrick Dougherty
North Carolina Public artist who makes monumental works using tree saplings.

Percent for Art Collaborative
Interdisciplinary consulting group based in Chapel Hill, N.C., including artists, government representatives, public art administrators, architects, writers, historians, landscape designers and urban planners. Creates design teams to help communities initiate and refine public art policies, programs, and projects.

Philadelphia Public Art
Artist Chris Purdom's collection of pictures of 458 sculptures, fountains, mosaics and memorials in Philadelphia, Pa., with some information about each piece. Browsable by titles, artists, years, people and descriptions.

Portland Public Art
Enormous Portland Public Art photo archive and critical blog by the anonymous "C." Extensive list of Portland art links. Tagged as "Measuring the supply and demand of Portland, Oregon's art community" since 2005.

Precita Eyes Mural Arts Center
Inner-city San Francisco mural-arts organization, creating murals and education about process and history of community-based mural art; classes, mural tours and online mural and arts supply store.

Prestoungrange Arts Festival
Community arts organization in historic Prestonpans, East Lothian, Scotland, that "seeks in as many ways as possible to share the history and create the future of the town through the Arts." Large public art program, festivals, murals, cultural tourism education program. Very extensive Web site.

Public Art Forum
U.K. nonprofit supporting framework for public art practice. Events, research, publications, case studies, public art directory.

Public Art Fund
Presenter of the work of contemporary artists in New York's public spaces, providing alternative venues in which to create and view art.

Public Art Index
Annotated bibliography of 131 magazine articles, published between 1969 and 1994, on Public Art and related themes. Compiled by artist David Harding.

Public Art Network
Service organization for public-art professionals, visual artists, design professionals and organizations planning public-art projects and programs. Sponsored by Americans for the Arts.

Public Art Online
Public art resource with information on projects, organizations, good practice in private and public sectors: urban/rural regeneration, arts in healthcare environments, educational buildings, industrial, commercial and retail settings, housing developments, protected built and natural environments and the transport infrastructure. Site offers practical guidance, case studies from around the world, links, news, information/current research. Managed by Public Art South West in Exeter, England.

Public Art Programs Fiscal Year 2001
Report on budgets and programming of U.S. public art programs during FY 2001. Information about public art revenue sources and budget history, composition of artist-selection panels, details about how public art programs are staffed, and more about the nuts and bolts of public art administration. By Public Art Network (American for the Arts, 2004)

Public Art Review
The national journal Public Art Review is published twice annually by the non-profit FORECAST Public Artworks. Established in 1989, PAR covers the multifaceted field of public art, including practical information, critical analysis, surveys, and listings of recent projects. Edited by Jack Becker.

Public Art and the Planning System and Process
Report on public-art planning process in England. Includes guidance on the preparation of a supplementary planning document for public art. By public-art think tank, ixia

Public Art as Social Intervention
"Public Art as Social Intervention - But Now I Have to Speak - Testimonies of Trauma, Change and Transformation," ongoing collective/collaborative project concerned with violence against women.

Public Art in Los Angeles
Documents public art works, sculptural works, mosaics, and murals in Los Angeles, Calif. By USC Libraries.

Public Art in Private Development
Survey on public art by Toronto design firm Sterling Finlayson, with a range of responses to basic questions.

Public Art of Bill Fitzgibbons
Sculptor and pyro-artist based in San Antonio, Tex., with public art commission in five countries since 1986. Site-specific sculptures and environments that respond to the character of the space and the needs of the users of the facility.

Public Art on the Net
An excellent U.K. collection of public-art resources on the Web, including an annotated bibliography of 130+ relevant magazine articles, "Public Art on the Black Country Route," and links to public-art sites in many U.S. cities.

Public Assembly
North Carolina-based organization involving children and adults in public arts activities to promote non-violence and civil liberties. Includes Peace Parasol Project and Twin Towers of Democracy / City on a Hill mobile public sculpture project.

Publicartonline
Online resource for public art by England's Public Art South West. Practical information, legal and policy guidance, case studies and news. Some international content.

REPOhistory
New York City art collaborative that maps forgotten events, people, and sites through public art projects around the country.

Rafani
Artist group in Czech Republic, founded in Prague in 2000. Mostly gallery political work, but some activist public art and art in schools. See site by Kristofer Paetau for documentation in English.

RePublicArt.org
Works to broaden arts participation and involve the general public in art projects and related social concerns. "We the People," a public art project that encourages the creation of banners about democracy for city lampposts. Based in New Haven, Conn.

Reclamation Art: Restoring and Commemorating Blighted Landscapes
Research project by Hilary Frost-Kumpf discussing a number of environmental art works.

Rural Studio
Auburn University architectural program where students collaborate with communities in one of the poorest region of the nation. Founded by Dennis K. Ruth and late Samuel Mockbee.

STAR Radio
Broadcasting event in Cardiff, Wales, 2005, initiated by artist Jennie Savage "to create an audio archive that represented a multiplicity of voices from this place." Based in a shop on Clifton Street for six months. The shop formed a hub for the project, people came in to make radio programs, drop off music and take part. Products: one-week eek radio broadcast, exhibition at National Museum and Galleries of Wales, and publication, "STAR a Psychotopography of Place," with audio as archive on DVD. Audio was also available online for two years after project’s conclusion.

San Francisco Public Art Program
One of the first public art programs the country, established by City ordinance in 1969 that funds it with two percent of construction costs of public building projects. Sites range from San Francisco International Airport and Moscone Convention Center, to neighborhood recreation centers, police and fire stations, parking garages, hospitals, more. Web site offers self-guided tour.

Sanfte Strukturen
Atelier of Swiss architect Marcel Kalberer. Creates structures of living willow-bundles, adapted from the sumerian reed-constructions in Mesopotamia. Fifty living willow structures, including houses, community gathering places and cathedrals, created by hundreds of community volunteers in Germany, Sweden, Belgium, Poland, Austria and Switzerland.

Shanti ko Samjhana - Remembering Peace
Public art installation dedicated to peace and the environment, 2002, in Kathmandu and Pharping, Nepal by Jyoti Duwadi.

Sheepfolds
Artist Andy Goldsworthy's major countywide sculpture project in the Lakes District, Cumbria, England.

Shifting Ground: Art in Rural Contexts
Partnership project combining academic and practice-based research. Includes papers, conference presentations and a full account of the Ground Up program of temporary public art in rural county Clare in Ireland. Partners: Arts Office of Clare County Council and School of Humanities, Galway/Mayo Institute of Technology.

Social and Public Art Resource Center (SPARC)
Artist-run Los Angeles, Calif., organization dedicated to public artworks reflecting America's diverse ethnic populations, women, working people, youth, elderly. Founded by artist Judy Baca.

Sound Play
Bond Anderson's outdoor "musical playscapes": permanently installed, tuned musical instruments providing a public setting where people can share in the creative process. Constructed from materials available in most hardware stores and lumber yards.

Spencer Tunick
Public artist who organizes and documents site-specific grouped masses of live nude people. Web site offers opportunities to participate.

Stone & Water
A South Korean "supplement space ... extending from the realm of art to the scope of life" in An Yang. "Moves towards the new art movement based on social, regional networks, pushing ahead various artistic activities based on local and public interests." Projects: Education, public art, international artists' residencies. + Anyang-River Project, Seoksu-Market Project, Art Education Project. Directed by Chan Eung Park.

Susan Leibovitz Steinman
Artist who salvages materials from community waste streams to construct public art installations that connect common daily experiences to broader social issues.

Temescal Amity Works
"Social sculpture" by Susanne Cockrell and Ted Purves in their Oakland, Calif., neighborhood: storefront, series of free publications, Web site and crop-sharing program called the Big Backyard. Formed around a pushcart they use to collect surplus fruit from neighborhood yards and give away at the storefront or redistribute as preserves and marmalades. Draws on community models like mutual-aid societies, barn-raisings, DIY collectives and "urban communism. "

Temples of Humankind
Nine ornate hand-built temples, on five levels, 100 ft. underground in the Italian Piedmont. Conceived by Oberto Airaudi in 1960s, built piecemeal in secret built by 150 people beginning 1978, discovered by police in 1992. Now part of the Federation of Damanhur, "the largest eco-society on the planet," with the motto: Community Spirituality Research & Action.

Tempography
Public media-arts project by Anthony Bannwart and Magnus Aronson. Online festival of minimalist video. Shown on London buses in 2004. Open for public online participation.

Temporary Anti-Public Art Project
Temporary sculptures in "hostile aesthetic terrain" by James Bailey. To raise issues about the conventional public art process, TPAP intentionally bypasses public funding and approval.

Terra Nova
Web site of eco-artist Hermann Prigann (Spain) working to restore lands in Eastern Europe that have been damaged by resource extraction.

The Barnstormers
Collective of public artists from New York and Tokyo whose art "mecca" is the rural town of Cameron, N.C.

The Gathering Space
Community-based arts project in Junction neighborhood of Toronto, Ont., Canada, led by artist Loree Lawrence. Works with residents to gather stories, images, and text and leave traces of artwork throughout the neighborhood. Indoor and outdoor installations, ephemeral performances, public workspace and gallery at 2804 Dundas St. West, shared with Cool Hand of a Girl Coffee Shop.

The Puppeteers Cooperative
Artists and puppeteers working in U.S. cities "to create giant puppet parades, pageants, and ceremonies of celebration and complaint, using simple materials and movements to build community cardboard extravaganzas." Founded 1976 by (the late) George Konnoff. Site includes diagrams and patternbooks for making puppets of all kinds; scripts of puppet plays; thoughts on organizing parades and pageants; links to free puppet-lending libraries and other puppetry Web sites. Organization offers videos, DVDs, workshops, services, consulting.

The Snow Show
2004 exhibition in Lapland featuring public artworks in snow and ice.

The Stone Library
Web site of British poet/public artist Alyson Hallett. Her ongoing project, "the migration habits of stones," involves carrying stones around the world with words carved into them. This site documents other public art projects by Hallett, including poetry in the pavement in Milsom Street, Bath; windows in Bradley Stoke Library, Bristol, with text written by young people who attended workshops run by Hallett in the local youth club; poetry sited on a garage in Hartland, Devon, during a residency at The Small School; poems and text on the windows of St. Matthias Library, Bristol; and more. "The Stone LIbrary" is also the title of a book of her poems, published by Peterloo poets in 2007.

The Tape Artists
Three U.S. public artists who create temporary, large-scale murals and installations for teaching and healing, using a special low-density tape in hospitals, schools and psychiatric institutes "looking to positively reinforce healthy processes." Special Project: Project Hope, work in Oklahoma after the 1995 Federal Building bombing, and in New York after 9/11, when they drew life-sized portraits of every lost airline passenger and fireman on the buildings of Manhattan. Web document, "Eleventh of September: an act of remembrance," uses innovative technologies (including Google maps) to compile five years of documentation and biographical information relating to the project and the people depicted.

The Yard Sign Project
Project by artist Bill Fisher encouraging community collaboration: downloadable yard signs with political content.

Tucson Public Art
Tour of public art in Tucson, Ariz., created by pre-service public-school art teachers from a course at U. of Arizona.

Urban ArtWorks Seattle
Employment, training and mentoring program for at-risk youth. Artists work with youth in designing, painting and installing murals throughout Seattle.

Vancouver Park Board Arts and Culture
Sophisticated community cultural-development project operated by the Board of Parks and Recreation in Vancouver, B.C., Canada. Programs: funding for Community Engaged Arts and Neighbourhood Projects; Artist In Residence Program; Neighbourhood Matching Fund; Public Art; Artist/Performers Guide; numerous special events; guide to arts courses in community centers, links to local community arts organizations. Initiatives: Arts, Health and Seniors Project; Stanley Park Environmental Art Project. Arts an Culture Coordinator: Artist Jil P. Weaving.

Walker on Wheels (WoW)
Walker Art Center's mobile sculpture by Joep van Lieshout that travels Minneapolis, Minn., as a site for hands-on art projects, temporary exhibitions, performances, classes, workshops, and community gatherings.

Watts Towers
Largest single artwork ever created by one man, Simon Rodia. Located in Watts section of Los Angeles.

What If...
Collaboration between artists and community about public space in Cork, Ireland. Started by Cork Community Arts Link during 2005, Cork's year as European Capital of Culture. Projects in street art, parades, installations, collaborations with hospital patients, etc.

Wowhaus
Public art team based in Sonoma, Calif., Scott Constable and Ene Osteraas-Constable, creating " works in the public realm, operating at the interstices of art and design": edible gardens, audio archives of street life, school kitchen furniture, more.

Yonke Public Art
Artists on the U.S.-Mexico border at Nogales, Sonora, Mex. Site-specific community arts projects. Murals, lectures, conferences, workshops, courses. Founded 1995 by Guadalupe Serrano and Alberto Morackis.