Interesting question!  We have, for example, a series of poetry bus shelters that we have catalogued as a single artwork (the shelter  form and graphics were designed by one artist but all the poems are different), but we also have a series of glass murals in the airport that we have catalogued as single artworks even though they are all by the same artist.  All our traffic signal boxes are listed as single artworks since they are all by different artists. I guess it depends on how the artist views them and how the public will experience them.  It's possible, for the bus shelters, that someone could get on and off the bus at different shelters but experience them as part of the same artwork, whereas they may only experience one of the airport glass murals in the hold room where they are sitting for an hour.

Julia Muney Moore (she/her/hers)
Director of Public Art
Arts Council of Indianapolis

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On Wed, Mar 11, 2020 at 11:11 AM Glenn Weiss <glenn@culturalcouncil.org> wrote:
PAN,

Is there a standard for collections regarding objects and artworks.  How are you recording?  Separate records or one record?

 Here are some examples:
1.  A series of separate objects that merge together into one artwork.
2.  A series of individual artworks that are displayed together as the artist originally conceived.
3.  Very separate objects in the city that were created by one artist at the same time.
4.  A series of murals or 3D forms that can stand alone but at presented as a unified vision.
5.  A series of artworks such as bike racks or traffic cabinet wraps that have minor transformations.

Thanks.

Glenn Weiss
Director, Public Art Program
Cultural Council of Greater Jacksonville
Cell:  561-665-0029
Text:  561-665-0029 or 5616650029@tmomail.net

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Cultural Council Main Phone:  904-358-3600
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