The City of Hoboken has created its first draft Public Art Plan (‘the Plan’) to address the need for a strategic framework to manage, expand, and maintain the City’s public art collection. Creating the Plan involved creating an inventory of public arts assets to characterize the state of public art in the City; assessing needs and priorities for creating, maintaining and curating public art; and developing strategies for expanding, managing, and stewarding the City’s public art collection. The plan will be used to support the Art Committee Advisory Board. The Public Art Plan was adopted on January 3, 2024.
Draft Public Art Plan and Appendices
Presentation Summarizing Draft Public Art Plan
Final Public Art Plan and Appendices
The City of Hoboken has created its first draft Public Art Plan (‘the Plan’) to address the need for a strategic framework to manage, expand, and maintain the City’s public art collection. Creating the Plan involved creating an inventory of public arts assets to characterize the state of public art in the City; assessing needs and priorities for creating, maintaining and curating public art; and developing strategies for expanding, managing, and stewarding the City’s public art collection. The plan will be used to support the Art Committee Advisory Board. The Public Art Plan was adopted on January 3, 2024.
Draft Public Art Plan and Appendices
Presentation Summarizing Draft Public Art Plan
Final Public Art Plan and Appendices
In June 2023, a public survey was sent to the community. The City received nearly 250 responses. The survey was structured to gather input about attitudes toward City investment in public art, types of spaces that are most appropriate for public art, and preferences toward the themes and motifs of city sponsored public art. In general, survey respondents expressed broad support for implementing public art projects in the City and provided some helpful information about the types of locations and public art they preferred.
The Public Art Assets Inventory, stakeholder findings, and recommendations were presented to a steering committee comprised of representatives from various city agencies who provided feedback that shaped the recommendations of the Plan.
The following stakeholders were engaged during the preparation of the Public Art Plan:
The purpose of the Art Committee Advisory Board created by the Executive Order is to act as an advisory board to the Mayor and City Administration relating to all questions involving public art and the City of Hoboken Art Program. Pursuant to City Executive Order No 2 (“Establishing Order of a City Hoboken Art Committee Advisory Board Advisory Board”) dated May 10, 2019, and revised on August 31, 2021; Art or artwork shall mean works in any permanent medium or combination of media that has been approved by the City's Bond Counsel to be purchased from the 1% Bond dedication for the funding of art installations, including, but not limited to, paintings, murals, frescoes, mosaics, inscriptions, stained glass, fiber work, statues, reliefs or other sculpture; monuments, fountains, arches, or other structures intended for ornament or commemoration; carvings, mobiles, photographs, drawings, collages, prints, crafts - both decorative and utilitarian - in clay, fiber, wood, metal, glass, plastics and other material produced by artists who are generally recognized by critics and peers as professionals of serious intent and substantial ability.
