This bibliography includes resources that informed the 1999 study, Animating Democracy: The Artistic Imagination as a Force in Civic Dialogue and other resources.
- Andrews, Richard. "Inventing an American Public Art." Public Art Dialogue = Southeast: Conference Documentation. Durham, North Carolina: Durham Arts Council and the North Carolina Arts Council, 1989.
- Collins, Bradford. "Report from Charleston: History Lessons." Art in America, November, 1991, pp. 65-72.
- Connor, Celeste. "Rooftop T.E.A.M. Building." Public Art Review, fall/winter 1995, pp. 34-35.
- Gablik, Suzi. The Reenchantment of Art. New York and London: Thames and Hudson, 1991.
- Garten, Cliff. Saint Paul Cultural Garden. Saint Paul, Minnesota: Place Place Press, 1996.
- Gude, Olivia. "Beyond Monological Monuments." Public Art Review, spring/summer 1995, pp. 40-41.
- Jacob, Mary Jane, Michael Brenson, Eva M. Olson. Culture in Action. Seattle: Bay Press, 1995.
- Karasov, Deborah, ed. Democracy issue. Public Art Review, fall/winter 1997.
- McCoy, Martha. "Art for Democracy's Sake." Public Art Review, fall/winter 1997, pp. 4-9.
- Lacy, Suzanne. Mapping the Terrain: New Genre Public Art. Seattle: Bay Press, 1995.
- Mesa-Bains, Amalia and Judith Baca, Suzanne Lacy, Stephanie Johnson, Johanna Poethig, Patricia Rodriquez, Susan Steinman. Curriculum Plan [for Visual and Public Arts]. Monterey Bay: California State University, Institute for Visual and Public Art, 1998.
- Ybarra-Frausto, Tomas. "The Chicano Movement/The Movement of Chicano Art." In Exhibiting Cultures: The Poetics and Politics of Museum Display. edited by Ivan Karp and Steven D. Lavine. Washington D.C.: Smithsonian Institution Press, 1991.