The Brooklyn Academy of Music plans to add four new works of public art to its downtown campus, and has commissioned site-specific installations from three Brooklyn-based artists.

Teresita Fernández and Hank Willis Thomas will create their first commissions for BAM, and Leo Villareal, whose LED light installation “Stars” can be seen in the arched windows of the academy’s Peter Jay Sharp Building, will create two new LED light installations for the campus.

The new commissions are part of the BAM Robert W. Wilson Public Art Initiative, which was made possible in 2015 when the organization received a $3.5 million gift from Mr. Wilson’s charitable trust. Katy Clark, who succeeded Karen Brooks Hopkins as BAM’s president shortly after the program was announced, said there was “a little transitional delay” in the commission process while she got up to speed on the project.

“I think we realized when you do permanent public art, these are big commitments and some of the locations changed,” Ms. Clark said in a phone interview. “We wanted to take our time and be thoughtful and have a really thoughtful selection process.”