The Association for Public Art (aPA) in partnership with the U’mista Cultural Centre in Alert Bay, British Columbia, is returning a Na̱ʼwiti House Post (c. 1850) to its ancestral land. The artwork will be on view April 24–May 31, 2026 at Atelier Gallery in Philadelphia with a dedicated exhibition, panel discussion, and film screening before making its journey home.

Apply by March 6, 2026! Art on the Parkway returns for a third year as a juried open call inviting Greater Philadelphia-area artists, designers, and other creatives to propose a temporary public art installation for Maja Park on Philadelphia’s Benjamin Franklin Parkway. Learn more about this year’s theme, jurors, guidelines, and updates to the program.

Our 2025 Annual Report offers a comprehensive review of the Association for Public Art’s work over the past year, including a letter from our Executive Director, Charlotte Cohen.

Coinciding with the 250th anniversary of the signing of the Declaration of Independence, the Association for Public Art will present Let Freedom Ring by artist Paul Ramírez Jonas at Cherry Street Pier — an arts and culture hub on the Delaware River, just a short distance from the Liberty Bell in Philadelphia’s Old City.

Curator Hamza Walker discusses the much-anticipated MONUMENTS exhibition in Los Angeles in this recorded artist talk for the Association for Public Art’s 150th anniversary.

Join us at the Free Library to hear Philadelphia-based artist Nicolo Gentile discuss his first large-scale public artwork, Bar None, now on view as part of the Association for Public Art’s Art on the Parkway program. The talk will explore the archival research that informed the artwork, including materials from the Free Library’s collections, and will feature a brief screening of historic Parkway footage from Temple University Library’s Special Collections.

WORKSHOP: Make your own collage protest poster inspired by Nicolo Gentile’s Bar None installation at this Collage Philadelphia-facilitated workshop at the Parkway Central Free Library!

Free and open to the public with registration! Join us for the the opening of Nicolo Gentile’s Bar None on the Benjamin Franklin Parkway on Thursday, August 14th at the Oar Pub at Park Towne Place. Enjoy refreshments, hear from the artist, and experience the new installation.