For more than 50 years, the city’s commitment to the arts has brought together its entertainment, business, parks and city government sectors and served as a model to the state of Ohio for how to fund and create public art.
In 1977, local arts advocate Susan Reams began work that started Toledo’s One Percent for Art program, which has allocated 1 percent of the city’s capital budget to funding public art.
“I think it’s made our city into an arts city,” Reams says. “Public art is accessible to everyone. It goes through all walks of life.”
Glass City Center…