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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:

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
Cedar View Trail bridge designs by Judy Bales, Fairfield, Iowa
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
Artist and students turn the Fairfield, Iowa, Loop Trail Bridge into a work of art
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

Mural along trail

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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
The Harmony-Preston Valley Trail and Hobo Camp, Harmony, Minnesota

A glowing pink trail bridge draws thousands for Breast Cancer Awareness
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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