Pittsburgh officials have selected four artists to create permanent art installations in Homewood Park as part of the city’s Homewood Park Improvement Project.

The Department of City Planning’s Public Art and Civic Design Planning division selected Camerin “Camo” Nesbit, Juliana Jones, Mikael Owunna and Najja Moon to create the artwork.

Various community organizations in 2015 identified several challenges at Homewood Park, leading to an extensive community project led by Homewood Park Community Sports to develop an updated park design that would allow the space to better serve the community.

Officials said the public art installations will tell Homewood’s story by featuring its notable people, organizations and events. Each artist will work with Homewood Community Sports and other residents to ensure their pieces are reflective of the neighborhood.

The city’s Percent for Art program — which allocates one percent of the project construction budget for permanent works of art — is funding the public art installations. Officials said it is one of seven Percent for Art projects planned this year.

“We are dedicated to using the Percent for Art program to develop and support a public art program that uplifts community identity, public history and evolving culture in Pittsburgh,” said Public Art and Civic Design Manager Sarah Minnaert. “These artworks will celebrate Homewood’s history and create new memories for generations to come.”

The total budget for art is $120,000.

Nesbit is a Homewood native who uses mural artwork to explore the importance of representing the Black body in public art.

Jones, of Las Vegas, is a self-taught mixed-media artist, muralist, live painter, entrepreneur and educator.

Owunna, of Pittsburgh, is a queer Nigerian-American multimedia artist filmmaker and engineer. His artwork uses engineering techniques and other optics to explore themes of Blackness.

Moon, of Miami, is an artist whose artwork uses drawing and text to represent the intersections of queer identity, the body and movement, Black culture and familiar relations.

The artists will participate in community engagement events at the Homewood Park field to help them understand the community and identify goals for the artwork beginning this summer. Officials did not offer a timeline of when the artwork would be completed.

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