Tempe Public Art Master Plan
Tempe’s public art program, active for more than thirty years, has successfully become part of the city’s fabric and identity, and is highly recognized in the field for its accomplishments. This public art master plan, the first ever for the city, provides strategic direction and an operational framework that will help the program thrive as its staff expands and the turns more of its attention to proactive projects.
Date | 2026
Client | City of Tempe
Collaborators | Designing Local
The Tempe, Arizona, public art program sought a public art master plan to help the City and various program stakeholders arrive at a shared vision for how the program would focus its efforts in the future and to document its processes more thoroughly. Bressi, as special advisor to consultant Designing Local, focused on several aspects of the project: articulating a stronger curatorial direction for the program, exploring how the program can collaborate with City departments to achieve projects of high ambition, and updating the program’s processes for working with developers to deliver public art projects under the City’s Art in Public Places requirements.
