Art In Public Places Meeting Minutes, January 2012

[Metro Jacksonville]

Art In Public Places Meeting Minutes, January 2012



The Art in Public Places Committee meets monthly, more or less.  The committee decides what Public Arts will be funded by the public fund.  These are the meetings of the committee from January of 2012.  During the meeting, several new members are joining the board, and a ponderous project combining parking signs and public art.

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http://www.metrojacksonville.com/article/2012-dec-art-in-public-places-meeting-minutes-january-2012

[Spence]

Sadly for some near me, humor and sarcasm are usually a waste in vain.
Stephen, what are you posting exactly?
How are we to be motivated to donate time, dollars, works of expression, energy and or ideas to better the public spaces chosen?
What criteria must a space meet in order to be considered ripe?

[duvaldude08]

In the article are the minutes of the January meeting of the Art In Public Places Committee.

Including this one, there were nine meetings altogether last year.

We will be posting the minutes of each meeting, along with notations about what happened at each, and an introduction to the people making the decisions about various projects.

But these are great questions, Spence.

We definitely need to work on improving the public spaces, and hopefully through a leveraged system of financing and works that are as amazing as the Jaume Plensa works have proven to be.

The committee, as the minutes of the meetings will show, has been at a bit of a standstill in this respect----although they are in the process of developing a few programs that would greatly benefit from a little public attention and input.

I tend to be a bit of a purist.  I think that the AIPP fund should be used primarily for great works of art, or for the memorialization of our history.

Stephen,

Has there been any discussion around public art in the skyway stations? Is that something you think Mr. Ford would support?

[Wacca Pilatka]

I saw a post on the Cummer Gallery's Facebook page today soliciting artists to propose mural ideas on a parking garage - was this specifically related to the Park in Spark initiative mentioned in the article?