Public Art Archive - Call for Artwork Submissions

About: The Public Art Archive™ (PAA™) is a free, continually growing, online database of completed public artworks throughout the U.S. and abroad. By uniting records from public art organizations and artists into one comprehensive resource, PAA aims to provide universal access to the complex stories that characterize public artworks not as static objects, but as dynamic, interconnected keepers of history, context and meaning. PAA’s mission “to make public art more public” has guided the program’s growth into the largest active source of public art information in the world. PAA’s interactive maps and advanced searching capabilities make your public artworks more visible and discoverable to local and online audiences. 

The essential space for discovering and exploring public art, the Public Art Archive (PAA) invites artists and organizations to contribute completed public art projects to our online public engagement portal. Contributing to PAA is always free. When you contribute your public art projects to the Public Art Archive, your portfolio is discoverable on the largest centralized source of public art information in the world, increasing the accessibility and visibility of your work.

Timeline: This project is ongoing and has no deadline for submissions. The PAA team will make eligibility determinations regarding when submissions to this call will be imported into the Public Art Archive public engagement portal. Please read eligibility criteria carefully.

Note: This is not a RFQ/RFP, roster, or commissioning project call. This call is for the inclusion of your completed project(s) in a digital engagement portal of public artworks.

Contact: Please email PAArchive@westaf.org for any questions. For collections administrators or artists who would like to contribute multiple artworks, please see our submission guide or email us.

If your work is already in the Public Art Archive and you would like to make edits, please use the Public Art Archive contact form or email the team at PAArchive@westaf.org