Tour Public Art in the Great Lakes Bay Region through the Newly Launched Public Art Passport

The Marshall M. Fredericks Sculpture Museum invites the community to view and help populate the new Public Art Passport portal that has just launched. 

Currently in its pilot phase, the Public Art Passport is fast becoming a comprehensive portal to public art in Michigan's Great Lakes Bay Region. Residents and visitors alike are able to explore 360-degree views of public art across Saginaw, Midland, and Bay Counties including public art hubs on regional college and university campuses.

Envisioned as an ever-expanding resource of and for the region, this website portal includes information about each public artwork, google map locations and links for ease of visiting in person, and also highlights arts and cultural organizations in the Great Lakes Bay Region.

“It all started with a conversation with one of Saginaw’s biggest champions, Sarah Jury, and how we could better highlight the fabulous art across our region,” states Director, Megan McAdow, “We started talking before the pandemic but were out of touch for a while during the height of the quarantine. Then in the fall of 2020 I discovered that Sarah had not stopped spreading the word about this idea for sharing our region’s public art. Meetings with Sarah via Zoom soon followed and included area other area arts professionals Amy Spadafore of Pit and Balcony, Ben Champagne of Temple Theatre and Thor Rasmussen from Saginaw Art Museum. We came up with the concept and platform and just ran with it!”

The Public Art Passport is designed to grow over time as more public art is created and documented. The community is called to help fill in the missing information about the public art and also to recommend what pieces have yet to be captured and shared. Please contact the Museum at mfsm@svsu.edu with feedback, suggestions, missing information, and public artworks to add in future phases.

Come explore the Public Art Passport at Publicartpassport.com.