Sandra Bloodworth, former director of MTA Arts & Design, is internationally respected for her role in transforming the New York subway and rail stations through commissioning art that engages and connects people with places.

Sandra Bloodworth brings 30 years of experience to your programs and meets the challenges of creating public art for a wide variety of spaces.

During her tenure at MTA Arts & Design, New York's century-old transportation network was transformed into a first-rate public museum, exposing millions of transit riders to art, music and poetry.  The department she led commissioned over 400 permanent artworks created in mosiac, terra cotta, bronze, glass and mixed-media for the millions of people who ride subway and commuter trains daily. Bloodworth oversaw the commissioning of art for the new Grand Central Madison terminal, the new Times Square Subway Station entrance and connector, and the Second Avenue subway which has been declared the largest public art installation in New York State's history.  Visitors flock to the stations to view the artwork, declaring it New York's newest world class art museum.   

Bloodworth is a recipient of the 2024 Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis Medal and the 2015 recipient of the Artist's Fellowship Gari Melchers Award for and the American Institute of Architects George S. Lewis Award for helping to make New York City a better place to live and practice and the 2005 Alfred Sloan Award for Public Service. 

​Bloodworth is former Vice-President and a member of the Design and Culture Platform for Union Internationale des Transports Public (UiTP), the International Association of Public Transport, which is the worldwide network that brings together all public transport stakeholders.  She co-led the creation of public arts standards for the American Public Transportation Association (APTA).