Public Art
Creativity thrives in St. Louis. Sculptures, murals, fountains, mosaics and memorials are part of the fabric of the streets and parks of our region. Public art goes beyond the expected idea of art. Public art in St. Louis extends to a wide range of innovative concepts, projects and programs. Explore the different areas of our community and the public art that enriches our lives below.
Formerly known as MetroLines, the Poetry in Motion project continues to be sponsored by AIT, now in partnership with the...
Two busy streets intersect; there’s a traffic light, turning cars, buses, bikes and pedestrians crossing the street. Most people are...
“Speed Shift” challenges conventional perceptions of time and space. The work features two ribbons of white LEDs installed along the...
The View From Here is based on the event of the 1904 Worlds Fair, a complex and fascinating event which took...
Pedestrians stroll the Pageant Walkway while overhead, atop totem poles, an artist’s palette — a ballet slipper, a book and...
Karpowicz is particularly drawn to tension at the point of contact, or “joint”, between disparate materials. By joining irregular, organic...
Michael Dunbar named this piece “astro” meaning star, and “treillage,” a latticework for growing plants. Dunbar pondered the proximity of...
Double Happiness is eleven feet high and six feet in diameter. The sculpture has the combined inspirations of jazz music and a...
Cut apart and reassembled, Fractured Form is both a powerful geometric stainless steel sculpture and an object of poetic transformation. Even on...
Built of gleaming white cararra marble and standing on a grassy knoll, the 35,000-pound freestanding doorway H1460 invites the viewer...
This piece consists of three five-and-a-half feet high, four-and-a-half wide and one-foot deep rough-hewn irregularly shaped red granite blocks. The...
At the top of this 14-foot sculpture is a pool of water that overflows, creating a flow of water down...