Exploring Best Practices in Public Art Procurement Session #2: Championing

This session focuses on how to build successful projects by supporting artists in our work. Speakers will look into how artists work, and what it means for commissioners to engage artists’ process in a meaningful way. This session will include an artist with extensive experience in public art, speaking to the needs and expectations of artists in the procurement process and post-award. Our session will also include a commissioner who can speak to the idea that art needs an ally and the role of an internal ‘champion’ when commissioning art within an non-art corporation, through the procurement process and post-award. The conversation will be rounded out with discussion of lessons learned, illustrated through a recent procurement success story.