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 infrastruction 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.
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