Lindsay Hutchens is an arts and public-sector professional who brings curiosity, creativity, and a foundational skill of making complicated things work better. With more than 20 years of experience across public art, museums, education, creative production, and cultural programming, she has built a career around connecting people, ideas, and systems.

As a project manager for the City of Austin's Art in Public Places program, Lindsay manages complex public art projects from artist selection and contracting through community engagement, design, fabrication, and installation. She has managed more than 20 projects with budgets totaling over $5 million, collaborating with artists, architects, engineers, contractors, City departments, community organizations, and the general public. She recently served as both project manager and case study author for Reginald Adams’ “Unity Tunnel."

Lindsay is at her best at the intersection of creativity and structure: asking the question that has not yet been asked, spotting problems early, translating between different perspectives, and helping people find common ground. She believes good public work is ultimately about people; and that thoughtful systems, genuine collaboration, and more than a little enthusiasm can turn ambitious ideas into meaningful, lasting places and experiences.

Lindsay’s artist’s practice, inclusive of curation, writing and archive work, continues from her project Photographic Procreation: Present-ness and Kinship in Family Photographs.