About Site Projects

Our mission, vision, and values

To create meaningful public art experiences for the New Haven community.
A New Haven where:
- Public Art educates, inspires, challenges, and connects people in their daily life
- Art and artists are highly valued and supported
- People feel a sense of civic pride, belonging, and shared stewardship of public space
In every project, we:
- Activate public space: We invite people to explore, gather in, engage with, and reflect on the places around them.
- Support artists: We prioritize being good partners to artists and helping them do their best work.
- Nurture learning and mentorship: We create opportunities among students, artists, and the public to learn more about and create art.
- Work in community: We aim to always be good friends to artists, collaborators, and New Haven, contributing rather than extracting, and committing to our shared future.
- Dream big: We are ambitious, both in engaging the public and in expanding the quality and range of art around New Haven.
- Honor context: We bring fresh eyes to each project, and tailor our process to the needs of each site, artist, and community.
- Have fun :)
Public art is:
- Freely accessible
- Meaningfully engaging for the public and uplifts human experience
- Site-specific, meaning it is thoughtful of, and in conversation with its location

About our name & logo

What “Site Projects” refers to in our work:

“Site” because we do site-specific art, meaning art that is in conversation with its location.

“Projects” because we work project-by-project, and never do the same thing twice.

Why we use Felice Varini’s Square With Four Circles as our logo:

It’s recognizable: As one of our favorite and most well-known projects, we’re happy to be associated with it.

It represents our focus on New Haven: Inspired by New Haven’s historic nine square plan, Varini thought of it as representing the New Haven Green and its central place in the city.