Title
Eastside Street Art Crossing Application Recommendation
Recommended Action
Review and recommend approval of the Eastside St Art Crossing Call for Art.
Report
Issue:
Whether to recommend to General Government Committee approval of the Eastside St Art Crossing Call for Art.
Staff Contact:
Stephanie Johnson, Arts Program Manager, Parks, Arts & Recreation, 360.709.2678
Presenter(s):
N/A
Background and Analysis:
On October 24, 2017, City Council approved the public art plan Olympia Crossings: An Art Plan for City Gateways.
Since that time, Council has also approved the design for the West Bay Art Crossing, which is now in fabrication. The Eastside St Art Crossing is the second of eight locations within the project.
As staff and the Arts Commission worked through the initial location, with the Northwest Neighborhood Association, some key elements emerged as a template for all eight projects including:
* Initial conversation with interested Neighborhood Association(s) to develop the Call for Art for that Crossing location
* Participation by a Neighborhood Association representative on the initial jury
* A two-part application process with an RFQ followed by finalist interviews
* Focus on artists with ties to Olympia, with support provided by a pre-submission workshop and proposal review (with the selected artist) with the City's on-call landscape architect.
To prepare the Call for Art for the Eastside St project, staff met with Eastside (ENA) and Indian Creek (ICNA) Neighborhood Association leadership on August 21, 2019, followed by the ENA annual picnic on August 25 and the ICNA picnic on September 8. Input from these meetings informed the neighborhood description in the Call for Art, and neighborhood representatives were solicited for the project jury.
If this Call for Art is approved, the process for selecting an artist follows:
Artist Selection Schedule
Call for Art open
Workshop for interested applicants
Deadline for Entry
Jury Process ...
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