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Home My WebLink About 05-03-2012 Public Art Advisory CommitteePublic Art Advisory Committee Thursday, May 3, 2012 3:3OPM Lobby Conference Room City Hall 410 E. Washington A. Call to order B. Public discussion of any item not on the agenda C. Consideration of the minutes of the March 8, 2012 meeting D. Election of Officers E. Discussion and Review of BenchMarks Project F. Update on Poetry in Public, Poetry in Public Art project, Kidztent, Mural projects. G. Other? H. Adjournment MINUTES PRELIMINARY PUBLIC ART ADVISORY COMMITTEE THURSDAY, MARCH 8, 2012 LOBBY CONFERENCE ROOM — CITY HALL Members present: Mike Moran, Mark Seabold, Melissa Mitchell, John Engelbrecht, Susie Thurmond Not present: Jan Finlayson, Rick Fosse Staff Present: Marcia Bollinger, Jeff Davidson Public Present: None RECOMMENDATIONS TO CITY COUNCIL Recommend approval to the City Council to accept the donation of the BookMark sculpture, "All the World's A Stage" to the City of Iowa to be located at the Riverside Shakespeare Stage in City Park. CALL TO ORDER Thurmond called the meeting to order at 3:35pm. INTRODUCTION OF NEW MEMBERS MELISSA MITCHELL AND JOHN ENGELBRECHT PUBLIC DISCUSSION OF ANY ITEM NOT ON THE AGENDA No new business. CONSIDERATION OF THE MINUTES OF THE DECEMBER 1ST. 2011 MEETING MOTION: Seabold moved to approve the December 1st, 2011 meeting minutes as presented. Thurmond seconded. Motion passed 5:0. CONSIDER A RECOMMENDATION TO THE CITY COUNCIL TO ACCEPT THE DONATION OF A BOOKMARK SCULPTURE ALL THE WORLD'S A STAGE TO THE CITY OF IOWA CITY. Bollinger distributed a photograph of the BookMark "All the World's a Stage" that is being donated to the City of Iowa City and requested to be located at the Riverside Shakespeare Stage in City Park. Bollinger explained that a Donation Agreement will be reviewed by the Iowa City City Council at their March 20, 2012 meeting and a recommendation by the Public Art Advisory Committee to accept this donation is necessary. Bollinger explained that all artwork placed on City property must be given to the City so that the City has control over removal, relocation, maintenance of each piece. Some discuss occurred regarding potential issues with the Plexiglas figures included on the sculpture. Bollinger explained that the artist painted the figure underneath the Plexiglas pieces so that the artwork will still be "complete" if the Plexiglas figures removed. MOTION: Thurmond moved to recommend acceptance of the Bookmark "All the World's a Stage" to be included in the Public Art inventory. Moran seconded. Motion passed 5:0. Public Art Advisory Committee Thursday, March 8, 2012 REVIEW OF CITY HIGH DONATION STATION ART PROPOSAL — SUSIE THURMOND (ART TEACHER AND CITY HIGH ART CLUB) Thurmond stated that she has not been successful in working with the City High Art Club to come up with a proposal that was acceptable to all students who wanted to be involved. Alternatives were discussed about possibly offering the opportunity to just one or two specific students to design and complete the project on their own. Bollinger explained that there was a $500 honorarium available for completion of a donation station art project so possibly a student might find it worthwhile to complete — even during summer break. Bollinger provided some more details regarding the program of decorating the parking meters. The goal of the program is to have it funded (after completion of a meter by each high school) completely by sponsorships/donations. The goal was to have the high school meters showcased in the public library lobby for a few months encouraging downtown businesses to consider participating; either by providing a financial donation to pay an artist to create a meter OR directly hire an artist to create the meter. The PAAC would provide final approval on all designs. The toucan that was completed by the West High student was damaged a few months ago and it has been a challenge to find someone interested in repairing it. It is now in storage in the library storage room. So there are currently no examples to showcase. Davidson suggested that designs don't have to be very elaborate —just something that is eye-catching and might increase the number of donations occurring. Total revenue has been fairly flat for the past few months. Engelbrecht suggested he knew some artists that may be interested in decorating the meters and will make some contacts. Thurmond suggested she would contact Jill Harper, an art teacher at City High to see if she had some suggestions about possible students in her ceramic class who might be willing to participate in the program. Bollinger mentioned that it had been challenging to find a concrete contractor to create the columns for the Grant Wood Neighborhood Art project that Jill Harper was coordinating. Seabold suggested he might have some prospects and Bollinger will send him the plans for the pillars. UPDATE ON POETRY IN PUBLIC POETRY IN PUBLIC ART PROJECT KIDZTENT AND MURAL PROJECTS Bollinger stated that the selection process for the poems had just been completed and John Engelbrecht of the PAAC participated as the committee's representative. She suggested that submissions continued to increase every year and this year was no exception. The next step is to get parent permissions for the student poems and then post all poems on-line so that potential artists can submit proposals for artwork based on the poems. Bollinger explained that the Poetry in Pubic Art Program was not held last year due to other projects but provided to be very popular the year before. This year the option of the poet finding their own artist is being considered. Bollinger stated that she has already been contacted by Lisa Barnes of Summer of the Arts about the Kidztent and she has committed the PAAC to participate in that project. The concept of developing a mural project as part of the Public Art program was discussed. Bollinger suggested she was willing to secure a variety of locations on City property that could be made available for murals. She mentioned that Happy Hollow shelter, the old pool building Public Art Advisory Committee Thursday, March 8, 2012 at Mercer, a wall in the game room of Robert A Lee Recreation Center and possibly some locations near the Chauncey Swan parking ramp could be options. She suggested a call to artists be created and submissions required to be submitted by a certain deadline so that there are possibly several options available to choose from. A specific schedule has not been determined but completion of a mural in 2012 would require the process get started soon. Engelbrecht mentioned that Public Space One hosted an event that attracted many local muralists and he would be happy to promote the program to them. Bollinger also mentioned that the City Clerk's office was willing to coordinate a training workshop for current board and commission members. She suggested she would forward the information to all PAAC members for their consideration. Seabold shared that as part of his role as a committee member of the University of Iowa's Museum of Art and the First Friday events, he wanted to share the upcoming "Just Dot Art" event that is scheduled from April 6 to May 4 at the hotelVetro. Dots will be available at the hotelVetro front desk and they will then be used to decorate the lobby windows. They hope to see 50,000 stickers and 10,000 participants involved in the event. Thurmond motioned and Moran seconded a motion to adjourn at 4:20 PM. Minutes created by Marcia Bollinger. N v E N U ON W O v > m a a u-0 tN � 7 a � w x o x x x 0 x act LOM� \ \ \ \ \ Q 0 0 0 0 0 W \ \ \ \ \ o0000 t � � siQ��Yd a jE N 4) O E C E I V R N �_ = O Z wCL2ch —LLB