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Art and artists enhance trails and greenways; programs and opportunities; examples of art, sculptures, memorials, and installations along trails; artistic benches, gazebos, signs and other facilities:

• Art along the Clipper City Rail Trail in Newburyport, MA
• City of Bloomington Unveils B-Line Trail's Signature Art Piece
• Pinellas County, FL uses a variety of art along trails to convey environmental education
• Art and health: the "Medical Mile" along Little Rock's Arkansas River
• Art along the Mississippi River greenway system in the Quad Cities of Iowa and Illinois, host for the 2006 National Trails Symposium
• Trailside tree mural along Ozark Creek Greenway
• B&A Trail will host Planet Museum of solar system
• See more art along Anne Arundel County trails in Maryland (pdf 228kb)
• Hudson River School Art Trail maps the painting sites of 19th-century artist Thomas Cole and his contemporaries of the art movement now known as the Hudson River School
• Riverfront Trail Creative Interpretation: poetry and murals along the Mississippi in St. Louis
• Lowell, MA, creates a public art plan for the Concord River Greenway
• Visitors encounter art while wandering along paths at North Carolina Museum of Art: "projects that connect art and nature and expand perceptions of both."
• Art for Public Parks in Orlando, FL
• The Midtown Greenway in Minneapolis has a Public Art Master Plan for the corridor
• Christo and Jeanne-Claude's Gates project along 23 miles of trails in Central Park
• "River's Edge: Life In The Monongahela" is part of the 65-mile Upper Monongahela Water Trail.
• Art enhances western Colorado greenways

 

• Artist Judy Bales has designed art and benches for trails and bridges
• Artistic vision featured on Iowa's High Trestle Trail bridge
• Artist and students turn the Fairfield, Iowa, Loop Trail Bridge into a work of art
• Cedar View Trail bridge designs by Judy Bales, Fairfield, Iowa
• A glowing pink trail bridge draws thousands for Breast Cancer Awareness

 

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• Trail Town Public Art Program funds art along Great Allegheny Passage
• Boulder, Colorado, program connects trails and the arts; by Susan Pence
• Artful Ways: enhancing trails and greenways with art and artists
• Programs seek to encourage art enhancing trails
• Art & Community Landscapes grantees and project descriptions
• Art and Community Landscapes Request for Proposals for Art on National Recreation Trails.
• National Trails Awards program recognize Art on the Trail
• Arts and Trails: Images in the Landscape
• Foundation announces $12,000 for art in linear parks in Massachusetts and Pennsylvania
• Linear parks benefit from environmental public art programs; 2004 projects in MA and NC
• Sustrans works across the UK to include art and artists in trails and the National Cycle Network
• Greenmuseum.org online museum of environmental art, advances creative efforts to connect people, improve our relationship with the natural world, and encourage work that serves our communities and ecosystems

• Trail-side art encourages cancer sufferers to fight
• Sculpture and art along trails in Denver, CO; Mount Vernon, WA; and St. Paul, MN
• Art along Washington state trails
• Harmony Trails: musical instruments built into the trail
• Art on the greenway system in Chattanooga, TN (Gallery: 19 photos)
• Examples of sculpture on trails in WA, CO, and NV (Gallery: 20 photos)
• Medical Mile trail, Little Rock, AR (Gallery: 19 photos)
• Sculptures along House Creek Greenway, Raleigh, NC
• Great Barrington Housatonic River Walk, Great Barrington, Massachusetts
• Memorial sculptures along the Depot Avenue Trail, Florida
• Sculpture and decorative trash cans on the Florida Keys Overseas Heritage Trail
• Withlacoochee State Trail; Citrus, Hernando, and Pasco counties, Florida
• Harmony-Preston Valley Trail and Hobo Camp, Harmony, Minnesota

• Public Art Master Plan details installations for Legacy Trail in Lexington, KY

• Art students take natural path at Angel Mounds (IN)
• New bathroom is a work of art on Austin's Town Lake Trail
• Invasion of the Forest Artist: Raven Nature Trail Art Exhibit

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