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Public art programs provide venues for artists to present their work and build awareness of the arts in general in a community. Combining public art with public transit can provide symbiotic benefits to the local arts community and to the transit agency: installations connected with public transit can be delivered to a broad cross-section of the community while the artwork can play a role in improving the visibility and image of a transit agency and of transit more generally. While the cost, complexity, and space requirements for a large-scale public art program may be out of reach for many cities and smaller transit agencies, there are alternative strategies that can effectively accomplish many of the aims of the transit agency and the arts community. This paper presents a case study of the Art-On-The-Move program in Raleigh, North Carolina. Art-On-The-Move is a partnership between the city bus transit provider, Capital Area Transit System (CATS), and the city arts office, the Raleigh Arts Commission. Established in 2007, the program displays original artwork by local artists as vinyl wraps on city buses. The case study demonstrates how a transit agency can leverage an existing bus advertising program to establish a public art in transit program, despite strict local and state regulations. It also provides an example of interagency working relationships that can lay a foundation for an expanded public art-in-transit program in the future.

01147878

10-0181

English

12p

2010

Transportation Research Board 89th Annual Meeting

DVD

Figures; Photos; References (17) ; Tables (1)

Art; Benefits; City planning; Graphic arts; Interagency relations; Local transportation; Public transit; Regulations

Raleigh (North Carolina)

Administration and Management; Public Transportation; I10: Economics and Administration

Transportation Research Board Annual Meeting 2010 Paper #10-0181

TRIS, TRB

Jan 25 2010 10:09AM