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

    • Engages the public and uplifts the human experience

    • Is site-specific, meaning it is thoughtful of, and in conversation with its location

About our Name & Logo

Blue banner with black text that says 'Site Projects'
Four people stand on a hill at night, looking at the sky where colorful laser beams in red, yellow, green, blue, and purple originate from a single point and spread outward over a cityscape.

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: (1) Each artwork represents a comprehensive process of ideation, research, engagement, development, and installation, and (2) we work project-by-project, with each artwork contributing something unique to the city’s and neighborhood’s sense of place.

A narrow alleyway with beige paving stones, flanked by brick and concrete walls, leading towards a pile of parking garage ramps in the distance. A street lamp is visible on the right side, and a sign for 'Kitchen Zing' is visible further down the alley.

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.

Narrow alleyway with a restaurant sign that reads 'Kitchen Zinc Artisan Pizza & Bar', decorated with red flags and lanterns, between brick and white stucco walls, leading to a parking garage structure in the background.

Square with Four Circles symbolizes the collaboration at the heart of our work.

The image shifts depending on where you stand, inviting viewers to move their bodies and to participate.

The mural is formed from fragments across many buildings, but creates one cohesive image. All our work depends on many people coming together.

Our Staff & Board

  • Liam Grace-Flood

    Executive Director

  • Niasia Brown

    Operations Assistant

  • Laura Clarke

    Founder & Former Executive Director

  • Maria Kayne

    Founder & Board Member

  • David Sepulveda

    Board Member

  • Beka Sturges

    Board Member

  • Julie Bernblum

    Board Member

  • Kathleen Krolak

    Board Member

  • Patricia Melton

    Board Member

  • Michael Pavano

    Board Member

  • Roger Ibbotson

    Board Member

  • Meghan Smith

    Board Member

  • Matt Fantastic

    Board Member