The main public art programme in Dundee originally started in 1982 as the Blackness Public Arts Programme. It was founded to work with the `Action Blackness' project which was established by the local authorities to regenerate the rundown industrial area of Blackness within Dundee. The programme had established a good working relationship with the local authorities by the time the work of `Action Blackness' was finished in 1985. The programme continued to work throughout Dundee and became the Dundee Public Art Programme (DPAP). Since then DPAP has gained a national reputation in assisting in the commissioning of some 70 or more public artworks in Dundee.