About

With a focus on Public Art and Live Performance, Civic Arts Association provides public access to the arts while upholding professional standards and maintaining the integrity of the individual projects supported.

What does this mean?

• We compensate artists monetarily for their work and materials.
• We avoid all commercial advertising and promotions.
• We foster an inclusive environment where art serves to unite and inspire a diverse community.
• We ensure the pieces shared with the community are thoughtful, informed, and impactful.
• We provide an entry point where audiences can learn more about the artists, their work, and the artistic and historical context for any of our projects.

Our Values

• The arts are vital to public life and community health. Public art promotes a sense of place, community, and social interaction.
• The public should be able to access arts freely and affordably, not in a diluted form, but in their full richness and integrity.
• Public art is key to enhancing the cultural identity of a community and celebrating a community’s heritage.
• Offering interpretive information—such as historical, theoretical, or critical context—deepens public engagement with the arts.
• Professional artists, whose skill and creative mastery are honed through dedicated practice, make a meaningful and lasting contribution to the community.
• Professional artists should be compensated in accordance with their skill-level and artistic contributions.