This toolkit for rural communities in the Intermountain West contains resources for best practices, planning, community engagement, funding, launching, installing and amplifying your art and placemaking activities. The Public Art and Placemaking Toolkit was made possible by a generous grant from the LOR Foundation.

Seattle based artist John Fleming designed "Willow Grove," using slender pieces of rusted steel to look like abstract versions of the willows that grow in nearby Karns Meadow. The art piece is meant to announce the entrance to the heart of downtown, signaling traffic to slow, and to evoke the nature that thrives not far from the busy intersection.

Building STEAM projects teach students the entire design process. From defining a problem, empathizing with users, ideating solutions and prototyping their ideas to delivering a final project. Led by Jackson Hole Public Art's artist-in-residence, Bland Hoke, students in Jackson Hole High School's Fabrication Lab gained practical experience through the lens of making public art.

Libraries ignite a flurry of thoughts; as soon as visitors step inside, they begin asking questions and searching for answers. An artist team set out to manifest this intellectual activity at Teton County Library through a dynamic, interactive, digital and spatial sculpture.

Art sheds light on science in “Strands,” a glass installation on the exterior of the Home Ranch Welcome Center. Jackson artist...