Percent for Art - DCLA

NYC Cultural Affairs


Percent for Art

City Canvas
Percent for Art
Public Art as Community Engagement
Public Artists in Residence (PAIR)
Current Opportunities

City Canvas

Percent for Art

Public Art as Community Engagement

Public Artists in Residence (PAIR)

Current Opportunities


Since 1982, New York City's Percent for Art law has required that one percent of the budget for

eligible City-funded construction projects be spent on public artwork. Managed by the City’s Department of Cultural Affairs, the Percent for Art program has commissioned hundreds of site-specific projects in variety of media—painting, new technologies, lighting, mosaic, glass, textiles, sculpture, and works that are integrated into infrastructure and architecture—by artists whose sensibilities reflect the diversity of New York City.
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