Jack Becker is an artist and Founder Emeritus of Forecast Public Art, a US-based nonprofit established in 1978. In 1989, he established a statewide grant program for emerging public artists and Public Art Review, an international magazine devoted exclusively to contemporary public art. Jack, a resident of Minneapolis, Minnesota, applies his creativity to projects that connect the ideas and energies of artists with the needs and opportunities of communities. In 2007 he received the Award of Excellence from Americans for the Arts for his contribution to the public art field, and in 2014 he received a Lifetime Achievement Award from the Public Art Dialogue, a program of the College Art Association.
