John Kotarski – Ann Arbor Public Art Commissioner

Aaron Seagraves – Ann Arbor Public Art Administrator

1. Brief History of Taxpayer Supported Public Art2. Funding Sources3. Terminology – a mixed bag4. Examples5. Process – RFQ & RFP6. Tips for Artists

Taxpayer Public Art – A Brief HistoryHero on Horseback – Central Park Gates

• Federal Triangle Building 1900-1920• Federal Art Project 1935-1943• Percent for Art – Municipal

• Philadelphia 1959, Baltimore 1963, San Francisco 1967, Seattle 1973, Ann Arbor 2007

• Percent for Art – State• Hawaii 1997, Maine 1973, Washington 1974, Montana 1983,

Oklahoma 2004

• National Endowment for the Arts 1965

Public Art Funding Sources• Percent for Art• Millage Tax• Crowdfunding - Kickstarter• Developer’s fees• TIF (Tax increment financing) – Downtown Development Authorities • Foundation grants, including those from National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) and

National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH)• Neighborhood appeals • Parking meter revenue• Hotel/motel taxes (Transient Occupancy Tax)• Sales tax revenue• Proceeds from the sale of city land• Funds pooled with the County State and city governments• Historical societies and commissions• Local companies (including locally based branches of national corporations)• Utilities• Arts councils and advisory boards• Museums, Art centers

Public Art - A Mixed Vocabulary

Site integrated: Integrated into the construction of a facility, usually through design team process

Site specific: Designed for a specific location but can be detached if necessary

Portable Works: Paintings, prints, photographs, glass, ceramic, small sculptures that are displayed in public places and can be moved to alternative spaces Temporary Art: Short-term artwork, often tied programmatically to the work or mission of an event or organization. Interchangeably used with Installation art.

Installation Art: Art that temporarily transforms a space. - interactive or performance art

Public Art - A Mixed Vocabulary

Gateways: Creating a sense of arrival.

Transit/wayfinding: Providing orientation for travelers.

Murals: Part of a town-enhancement strategy.

Performance Art: Interdisciplinary performance mostly unscripted and usually presented only one time

Placemaker Art: Defines a community gathering place

Street Furniture: Benches, Streetlights, hatch covers/pavement, gates and fences, wall decoration

Pima Freeway, Scottsdale, Arizona

Nisbet Road Pedestrian Bridge Phoenix, Arizona

Alavadaro Water Treatment Plant, San Diego. Branded questions about San Diego water history, 1998

Integrated Public Art

Bell Town PopsicleSeattle, Washington

Catherine Mayer

Situated Public Art

The Gates • Central Park, New York • 2005Christo and Jeanne-Claude

Installation Public Art

Yarn-bombingSeattle, New York, Toledo

Temporary Public Art

Myrtle Edwards Park, Michael HeizerAdjacent, Against, Upon, 1976

Tilikum Place Park, James Wehn, Chief Seattle Fountain, 1909

Seattle Art Museum, Jonathan Borofsky,

Hammering Man, 1991

Sidewalk Stamps • Seattle, Washington

MuralsPhiladelphia, Chicago, Seattle

Fremont NeighborhoodSeattle, Washington

Repurposed Lenin statue from former USSR

Fremont NeighborhoodSeattle, Washington

Repurposed ICBM missileFremont Neighborhood

Seattle, Washington

Grass BladesPainted steel sculpture • 2003

Seattle, WashingtonJohn Fleming and Susan Zoccola

Downtown mural • Portland, OR

The Spiders • Bronze • ClevelandTemporary art installation

Louise Bourgeois

Father and Son, 2005. Olympic Sculpture Garden

Seattle, Washington Louise Bourgeois

Puppy, 1992 Guggenheim Museum, Bilbao, Spain

Jeff Koons

Public Seats

Fremont NeighborhoodSeattle

Public TransportationSeattle, Washington

Fire Station ArtSeattle, Wash

Ziggurat–East, Summer • Abandoned Fisher Body Plant, DetroitSculptural installation and photography project

Scott Hocking

Cloud Gate • Millennium Park, ChicagoAnish Kapoor

Steam Pig 2010 Art Prize

Grand Rapids, Michigan

Aires Libres Montreal, Canada 2011

Claude Cormier

Seattle, Prague

Big Blue Bear(I see what you

mean) •

Colorado Convention

Center, Denver•

Elizabeth Thomsen

Eyeball benches • Seattle, WALouise Bourgeois

Co2LED • Arlington County, VASolar-powered LEDs on rods, each topped with a reused plastic bottle

Jack Sanders, Robert Gay and Butch Anthony

Art Tool, 12 foot imprint of Los Angeles as seen from above

Santa Monica, 1986

Pocket Beach Olympic Park

Seattle, Washington

The SequenceBrussels

Arne Quinze

UchroniaNevada

Arne Quinze

Federal BuildingTacoma, Washington

Dale Chihuly

Balloon DogNew YorkJeff Coons

Cloud CityMOMA, New York

2012Tomás Saraceno

New York, Seattle

Odette Sculpture Park, Windsor

Odette Sculpture Park, Windsor

Odette Sculpture Park, Windsor

Odette ParkWindsor, Ontario

Memorial ArtToledo, New York

Waterfront FountainSeattle, Washington, 1974

James Fitzgerald and Margaret Tompkins

Waterfront Place FallsVancouver, British Columbia

New Public Art Cost Comparison

These are samplings of recent public art from other cities and communities in the United States. Each piece of public

art also list its budget

Sentient Beings Los Angeles, CA 2010

Budget $348,000Clif Garten

Open Channel FlowHouston, TX, 2010Budget $150,000

Matt Geller

Giant Mushroom Forest Austin, Texas, 2010

Budget $5,000Bill Davenport

Camera RosetumProjected light

2010, Brooklyn Artist GalaBudget $5,000Sean Capone

The Nereid BeckonEvanston, Ill. 2009

Budget $12,000Matthew Dehaemers

Revamp Fort BrookeAn installation of projected light

Tampa, Florida 2009 Budget $134,000Sabine Weissinger and Friedrich Foester

Revamp Fort Brooke An installation of projected light

Tampa, Florida 2009 Budget $134,000Sabine Weissinger and Friedrich Foester

Revamp Fort BrookeAn installation of projected light

Tampa, Florida 2009 Budget $134,000Sabine Weissinger and Friedrich Foester

Revamp Fort BrookeAn installation of projected light

Tampa, Florida 2009 Budget $134,000Sabine Weissinger and Friedrich Foester

Remembering Boat 2009 New Orleans

Budget $24,000Raine Bedsole

Vocal WitnessProjected light

Connecticut, 2009Budget $174,000

Jim Sandborn

Smpyrean PassageHollywood, CA, 2009

Budget $75,000Dan Corson

Rainbow ArborLos Angeles, CA, 2009

Budget $340,000Ned Kahn

Sign Of The TimesEmeryville, CA, 2009Budget $2,000 each

Seyed Alavi in collaboration with high school students

Untitled: #6209 • Salvaged home pieces, New Orleans • Budget $25,000Eric Dallimore

Public Art Process

Request for Qualifications (RFQ): Why do you qualify to make a proposal? Examples of past work that relates, letter of interest, brief concept

Request for Proposal (RFP: Finalists from RFQ usually given a stipend

Full proposal, manquette/rendering, budget, timeline, local sourcing, estimate of maintenance by independent conservator, references

Tips for Artists

• Know the funding source• Know the public space• Know the public viewer• Know the decision makers• Know the history

Interview Questions

1. Who are you and how are you involved in “X”2. What is “X” or how would you describe “X”3. How would you explain what is most

important about “X”4. What do you like best about “X” or how do

you respond to “X”