Wikipedia:WikiProject Visual arts/Public art/Showcase

Public art task forces
These members are using the SOS! to Wikipedia process to create and edit articles about artworks in the United States:

If you start a community project task force list it here.

New public art articles
List your newly created article here so everyone can know about it! (Please place your new article at the beginning of the list and remove the last one on the list!)

Well Hung Lover • Bear Flag Monument • Persephone (sculpture) • Sometimes I Sits • Milwaukee • Imploding Cube • Ascent the Wind • Empire Towers • Confluence (sculpture) • Bench Around the Lake • Nana on a Dolphin • The Mama Ayesha's Restaurant Presidential Mural • McMillan Fountain • Two Open Rectangles, Excentric, Variation VI (sculpture) • Saint Martin de Porres (McGlynn) • Last Conversation Piece • Needle Tower • Antipodes (sculpture) • Throwback (sculpture) • Continuum (sculpture) • Aggravation de l'Espace • Louis Chevrolet Memorial • Boy Scout Memorial

Featured articles about public art
If you create, edit, or find a featured article about public art add it here! BP Pedestrian Bridge • Brown Dog affair • Cloud Gate • Crown Fountain • Fountain of Time • Maya stelae • Shrine of Remembrance • Statue of Liberty • Weather Machine

Did you know public art articles
If your article makes the Did You Know section please add it here! Abraham Lincoln (1920 statue) • Henry Bergh (sculpture) • BP Pedestrian Bridge • Bridge Tender's House (artwork) • Bronze Fonz • Christopher Columbus (Vittori) • Crown Fountain • E Pluribus Unum (Wilson) • Family (Blumenfeld) • Flamingo (sculpture) • Fountain of Time • Gromit Unleashed • Indiana (Matthews) • LOVE (Indianapolis) • The Mama Ayesha's Restaurant Presidential Mural • Colonel Richard Owen (Kinney Scholz) • Robert Dale Owen Memorial • Peace Candle • Pigs in the City • Peirce Geodetic Monument • Colonel Robert A. Smith Monument • Untitled (Jazz Musicians) • George Washington (Park) • R.D. Whitehead Monument • Zephyr (Wooldridge)

Public art navboxes, lists and articles by location

 * List of public art in Brisbane
 * List of public art in South Australia
 * List of public art in the City of Sydney
 * List of public art in Western Australia
 * List of Australian rules football statues


 * List of public art in Cameroon and List of public art in Douala (these need to be merged)


 * Public art in Nørrebro (cf. List of public art in Copenhagen)


 * List of public art in Hannover
 * List of public art in Sylt


 * List of public art in Cork city
 * List of public art in County Donegal
 * List of public art in Dublin
 * List of public art in Galway city
 * List of public art in Limerick


 * List of public art in Israel


 * List of public art in Vilnius


 * List of public art in Monaco


 * List of public art in Metro Manila


 * Public art in Qatar


 * List of public art in Singapore


 * Public art in South Korea


 * Public art in Barcelona


 * List of public art in Varberg


 * Public art of the Washington State Ferries system


 * List of war museums and monuments in Vietnam

Public art listed by artist

 * List of Alexander Calder public works
 * List of James Turrell artworks
 * List of Louise Nevelson public art works
 * List of sculptures by Tony Smith

Public art listed by individual artwork

 * List of Love sculptures
 * List of The Thinker sculptures
 * Monuments and memorials to Horatio Nelson, 1st Viscount Nelson

Public art listed thematically

 * List of Armenian Genocide memorials
 * List of equestrian statues
 * List of martyrs' monuments and memorials
 * List of statues
 * List of statues by height
 * List of statues of Lenin
 * List of statues of Queen Victoria

Possible future lists

 * Los Angeles, using information from Public Art in LA
 * Redwood City, California, using information from Public Art in Redwood City.
 * Montreal, using information from Ville de Montreal
 * Memphis, using information from this map and the Urban Art Commission. (Source)
 * Grand Rapids, using information from Sculpture Sites GR
 * See also Catégorie:Liste d'art public en France par ville on French Wikipedia

Wikimedia-sponsored projects

 * WikiProject Museums/Working with museums
 * Galleries, Libraries, Archives and Museums (GLAM) Wiki (Wikimedia Meta-Wiki)
 * Best practices in building a content partnership with a cultural institution (Wikimedia Outreach)

Similar projects that don't use Wikipedia

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 * Placeograpahy "Placeography is a wiki where you can share the history of and stories about a house, building, farmstead, public land, neighborhood or any place to which you have a personal connection. If you don't have a place to contribute, please enjoy learning about others."


 * Archnet "Located in MIT's Design Lab in the School of Architecture and Planning, ArchNet is a web-based international community of scholars, students, and professionals working in architecture, planning, landscape design, and the related fields. This community shares expertise, local experience, and resources, and engages in dialogue around pertinent issues. The website itself provides access to scholarly resources and a forum for community members to interact, promoting debate and critical thinking."


 * The Quilt Index "The Quilt Index aims to be a central resource that incorporates a wide variety of sources and information on quilts, quiltmakers and quiltmaking."


 * British Postal Museum Wiki"BPMW works to make this human story of communication, industry, and innovation accessible to everyone."


 * The Science Museum "The website contains information about objects held in the museum’s public collections, some selected from the Dan Dare exhibition and the museums extensive reserve collections."