Wendy Feuer is the Assistant Commissioner for Urban Design & Art at the New York City Department of Transportation. The position was created to help realize the goal of creating world class streets and public spaces. The office launched the Urban Art Program in the fall of 2008 and has installed over 100 temporary projects including an artist-designed painting of 44,000 square feet of the plazas in Times Square. The Office both develops and reviews designs for streetscapes. She worked on the award-winning DOT Street Design Manual and the multiple agency Active Design Guidelines. She is currently working on DOT’s citywide wayfinding project. Feuer was the founding director of the New York Metropolitan Transportation Authority’s Arts for Transit office and served as Director of Art and Design for almost eleven years (1985-1996). As the director, she was responsible for developing permanent and temporary visual and performing art programs for the MTA’s the subway and commuter rail systems that include almost 600 stations and serve almost 5 million commuters daily.  As a consultant, Feuer (1996-2007) Feuer worked on public art and planning projects for institutions including, Columbia University, the Hudson River Park Trust, Raleigh-Durham Airport Authority, Brown University and The Cathedral St. John the Divine.