Artwork above: The Crow’s Nest and 3 Constellations by Sergio Teran.

In 2004, the Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors adopted the County’s first Civic Art Policy, allocating one percent (1%) of design and construction costs of new County capital projects to a Civic Art Special Fund for the creation of civic artworks. The County’s Civic Art Policy is managed by the Department of Arts and Culture’s Civic Art Division, to commission socially engaged civic artworks, support conservation efforts, and manage artistic and cultural programs and services throughout the unincorporated areas of Los Angeles County in all five Supervisorial Districts.