These projects involve a collaborative working relationship between team members. How Communities Can Participate Every year, when City departments develop their capital improvement plans, Seattle Arts Commission staff meets with departmental representatives to identify projects that should include art. Staff studies where projects are being built, listens to department priorities, studies neighborhood plans, participates in neighborhood sector meetings and listens to the communities where construction is taking place. These steps lead to the creation of a biennial Municipal Art Plan. Neighborhood-based public art projects generated from the Municipal Art Plan take many forms.
Community participation is essential to creating a public art.
When the Seattle Arts Commission creates the 2001-2002 Municipal Art Plan, many ideas growing from neighborhood plans will be included. Some neighborhood art projects will be integrated into City construction projects and some may be located on other public sites. In addition to projects specifically described in the Municipal Art Plan, beginning in 2001 funds will be set aside for artist residencies in communities and to support community-generated public art.