Tempo on the Trail
Raul Buitrago, NORM, photo courtesy of the Trail Conservancy.
The first public artworks created under the Butler Trail’s Arts and Culture Plan are now on view!
Through a collaboration between the Trail Conservancy and the City of Austin’s Art in Public Places Program, eight artists were commissioned to create temporary artworks along Austin’s iconic Butler Trail at Lady Bird Lake.
The artworks explore a range of themes called out in the plan – ecological understanding, gathering, perceptions of light, and reinterpreting the infrastructure of transportation, energy, and water management that are ever-present along the trail.
The collaboration was a direct result of one of the plan’s greatest accomplishments. The plan included a “collections management policy” that enabled TTC to self-manage public art projects on the public lands of the Trail. With this in place, AIPP was able to transfer approximately $100,000 of its resources to TTC to manage the entire public art process, from artist selection to installation and interpretation.