Public art works add value to the built environment. They can transform places with added meaning, interaction, beauty, and context, creating memorable encounters for people in those places. Public art may include any art which is exhibited in a public space including publicly accessible buildings, but often it is not that simple. Rather, the relationship between the content and audience, what the art is saying and to whom, is just as important if not more important than its physical location.

Allow us to share a recent posting by the Forecast Editor in Public Art Review titled, "Elevating Artists: Why one gallery owner has a formal public art program" focusing on the Mark Moore Fine Art. Please find an excerpt from this insightful article below: The distinction between “gallery art” and public art usually goes more or less unquestioned, but one veteran gallery owner is blurring the line between the two by running an active public art program out of his art space in Culver City, California. Mark Moore moved his Mark Moore Gallery to the western Los Angeles community in 2011, after 17 years in Santa Monica and, before that, 10 years running the Works Gallery in Long Beach. “I got involved with artists doing work with light and space back then,” he says, “and I learned that public art was a tricky thing. My artists lost money on it.” The experience suggested to him that he could help public artists get a better deal while at the same time promoting work that promotes his gallery. In Culver City, he helps any of the artists he represents who express an interest in doing public work. “I act basically as the artists’ agent in trying to secure them commissions,” he says. “I walk them through the process, assist with their contracts, help them with their foundry and fabrication connections, and act as a liaison between the entity commissioning the work and the artists, who aren’t always familiar with those things.” "Currently, about 9 of the 30 Mark Moore Gallery artists have either begun or finished public works. “We only work on public projects with artists we represent,” says Moore. “It’s a huge investment of time, and it isn’t something I’d be interested in doing if it didn’t enhance the value of the artists in the gallery. Most of our artists are mid-career or emerging, and they want these pieces out in the public realm because they broaden their profile.” "Still, Moore feels that the public component of the gallery is growing, and he can imagine a time when the Mark Moore Gallery is well enough known for public art that he would take on artists who work solely in that realm. “After all,” he says, “this is as integral a part of this gallery as our video art, our installation art, our photographically based art—or painting and drawing.”