Plans to decorate the new Washington Nationals’ new stadium with crafts, sculpture and bronze figures are in limbo after the D.C. Council eliminated money in next year’s budget for a public arts project.

In the proposed fiscal 2008 capital improvement plan submitted by Mayor Adrian Fenty, the D.C. Commission on the Arts and Humanities was budgeted for $850,000 to spend on various stadium art-related projects — sculptures, mosaics, murals, paving designs, custom benches and artistic gates among them.