WATCH: What Does Public Art Do?

I think public art is very important, because more than ever, I think we need to heal...as a community, as a nation, and as people. It’s good when you have so much isolation, so much withdrawal to have something that brings people together.
— Veronica Lachy, "To Each Era" visitor

In a year when the role of our public spaces shifted more than ever before, we asked the artists and the public: now, and always — what does public art do?

Video by White Birch Media.


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