New Public Art
Sunburst by Stacia Goodman, Uptown Transit Center
Faces of Brooklyn Center by Kao Lee Thao and Patterns of Brooklyn Center by Anika Hsiung Schneider, Brooklyn Center Transit Center
Rain Drop Art Stop by Eric Garcia, Andres Guzman, Leeya Jackson and Violeta Rotstein with Metro Transit Creative Services.
Temporary Public Art/Placemaking Opportunities
Are you a community group wanting to spruce up your local transit stop? You can submit a proposal for a temporary art installation by submitting a Property Usage Request form. Not sure what’s possible? Check out the Bus Stop Placemaking and Community Identification Catalog of Possibilities (PDF).
Winter of 2021-2022 Placemaking and Community Engagement Grant. Metro Transit has grants for five or six Placemaking Projects at bus shelters with a community engagement component. For more info visit metrotransit.org/placemaking.
The Permanent Collection
The Public Art in Transit program expresses Metro Transit's commitment to excellence. Metro Transit encourages creativity and innovation in all things, including art in its public places. The integrated public art program supports function with forms that may inspire discovery in otherwise predictable spaces.
Metro Transit is home to one of the largest collections of public art in the Upper Midwest. To learn about Metro Transit's Public Art Collection (the artwork, the artists and their history), click on the following links:
Contact
Do you want to know the history of Metro Transit's Public Art in Transit program? Please contact Mark Granlund, Public Art Administrator, at 612-349-7499 or Mark.Granlund@metrotransit.org.