Progress monitoring is an ongoing process that begins immediately after the intervention plan is put into place.
The city was expecting a big chunk of money from the feds this year, but new paperwork shows theyâre suggesting the project gets almost $20 million less than the city budgeted for. The city of Albuquerque expects $69-million for federal funding this year for ART.
As with Christo and Jeanne-Claude's previous art projects, Surrounded Islands was entirely financed by the artists, through the sale of preparatory drawings, collages, and early works. The artists do not accept sponsorship of any kind.