Welcome to the Best Practices section of ATA's Web site! ATA is working to compile, disseminate, and promote practices for Teaching Artists with the goal of improving the practice of teaching artistry. We are compiling the information from Teaching Artists with the goal of supporting Teaching Artists in their work  in both schools and in the community. ATA is asking for your input, as practitioners, to share from your knowledge and experience.

Public Art
Complied By Karen Fitzgerald

Just as the field of Arts-in-Education has worked to establish clear guidelines for artists collaborating with classroom teachers while creating integrated curricula, the field of public art has also made great strides in identifying and articulating best practices. Americans for the Arts has compiled a succinct best practices document that gives excellent guidelines for calls regarding the public art commissioning process. Visit http://www.AmericansForTheArts.org/networks/public_art_network/default_004.asp to access this document.

In addition to this resource, Lynn Basa published a book about public art.  If you go to the web site for her book, you'll see a menu item "Open Letter" that will take you right to the letter that was published in the Public Art Review that started a movement to raise awareness about RFP's. www.guidetopublicart.com  Follow this link directly to the open letter: http://guidetopublicart.com/artwork/1625407_Open_Letter_to_Public_Art_Administrators.html

Thanks to Joanie Gagnon San Chirico and to Lynn Basa for their guidance in locating these documents.

 Compiled by Karen Fitzgerald, January, 2012