{"id":1594,"date":"2016-02-09T13:16:00","date_gmt":"2016-02-09T18:16:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mjsymuleski.com\/artofthemooc\/?p=1594"},"modified":"2016-02-09T13:16:00","modified_gmt":"2016-02-09T18:16:00","slug":"percent-for-art","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mjsymuleski.com\/artofthemooc\/percent-for-art\/","title":{"rendered":"Percent for Art"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">The MOOC lecture briefly mentions 1% for Public Art Programs. \u00a0These programs have proved controversial due to the fact that many cities have not maintained the percentage they have committed to, and the narrow definition of \u2018Public Art\u2019 that is often followed, showing a strong preference for large scale permanent sculptural works. \u00a0According to the National Assembly of State Arts Agencies, Percent for Art Programs are active in 27 states and territories in the US. \u00a0North Carolina has had, but no longer has a program. \u00a0Percent for Art programs often come in the form of a city ordinance that devotes a portion of development costs to funding public art. \u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">An ordinance was originally adopted between 1934 and 1943 by the United States Department of the Treasury, which required 1% of the cost of federal buildings to be put aside for art. \u00a0This led to the establishment of similar programs in other cities &#8211; an example of Chapel Hill\u2019s ordinance can be found here.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p2\"><span class=\"s2\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.townofchapelhill.org\/home\/showdocument?id=3988\">http:\/\/www.townofchapelhill.org\/home\/showdocument?id=3988<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Percent for Art can raise several questions:\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Who is responsible for the establishment of public art?\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">How can artists and developers work together to provide a greater variety of public art?<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Do works chosen by percentage for art programs have to be permanent?\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p2\"><span class=\"s2\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nasaa-arts.org\/Research\/Key-Topics\/Public-Art\/State-Percent-for-Art-Programs.php#SC\">http:\/\/www.nasaa-arts.org\/Research\/Key-Topics\/Public-Art\/State-Percent-for-Art-Programs.php#SC<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The MOOC lecture briefly mentions 1% for Public Art Programs. \u00a0These programs have proved controversial due to the fact that many cities have not maintained the percentage they have committed to, and the narrow definition of \u2018Public Art\u2019 that is often followed, showing a strong preference for large scale permanent sculptural works. \u00a0According to the &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/mjsymuleski.com\/artofthemooc\/percent-for-art\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Percent for Art&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":936,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[399,398,33],"coauthors":[397],"class_list":["post-1594","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-public-art-and-spatial-politics","tag-1-art","tag-percent-for-art","tag-public-art"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjsymuleski.com\/artofthemooc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1594","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjsymuleski.com\/artofthemooc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjsymuleski.com\/artofthemooc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjsymuleski.com\/artofthemooc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/936"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjsymuleski.com\/artofthemooc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1594"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mjsymuleski.com\/artofthemooc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1594\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1596,"href":"https:\/\/mjsymuleski.com\/artofthemooc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1594\/revisions\/1596"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjsymuleski.com\/artofthemooc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1594"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjsymuleski.com\/artofthemooc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1594"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjsymuleski.com\/artofthemooc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1594"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjsymuleski.com\/artofthemooc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=1594"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}