Through her art, Janet Zweig attempts to speak to viewers both as communities and as individuals. Rather than thinking of a community as a static entity, she addresses the reality of communities that are in change and motion. She wants to bring something new to a situation, to allow each viewer to see something in their own way, and to create engaging experiences. Much of her work is episodic and intimate, spreading many human-scale visual events over a large area. She also makes more monumental pieces when appropriate to the situation and the constituencies. While her work has a strong conceptual foundation, she strives for an elegance of form with attention to detail.

Her projects respond to local situations and create spaces for activity and thought. She developed a project for the City of Seattle in a tech-heavy area that references literature that people interested in tech – and anyone else -- might appreciate. In San Diego, she responded to local aesthetics while working with a climate scientist to make a piece that enacts the future climate of the area. In Kansas City, surrounded by trains and prairies, she worked with a local architect to place a glowing transparent boxcar in a prairie on a downtown rooftop. The boxcar doubles as a performance space for local performers and educators, creating a unique space within a downtown park.