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Sebastopol's First Public Art Project! Comments Wanted!
Sebastopol's First Public Art Project!
Sebastopol’s Public Arts Committee will soon be making a selection recommendation for the City’s first commissioned public art project. We’d like to get your comments on the three art proposals!
Sebastopol has a ‘percent for art’ fee, where major projects can either provide on-site public art, or pay an in-lieu fee, which the City uses for public art projects in the community. There was sufficient money in the public art fee fund to initiate the City’s first commissioned public art project, and in February of this year, a Request for Qualifications (RFQ) to artists was issued. Any California artist was eligible to submit.
To encourage creative responses, the RFQ expressed openness as to the type of art, as well as to the location on any City-owned property. The artist budget in the RFQ was $45,000.
Over 30 artists responded.
After reviewing artist qualification submissions, Sebastopol’s Public Arts Committee selected three finalists, who were then asked to submit proposals. The three artists were also given a tour of City-owned sites.
The three finalist artists have submitted proposals, which are posted on the City web site at:
The three artists proposals can be found here.
Individual Proposals:
The proposal by Mark Grieve/Ilana Spector can be found here.
The proposal submitted by Ned Kahn can be found here.
Supplemental materials for the proposal submitted by Ned Kahn can be found here.
The proposal submitted by Vickie Jo Sowell can be found here.
The City’s Public Arts Committee is interested in community comments on the three proposals. We are asking the public for any comments you may have about the proposals.
Comments may be emailed to Senior Administrative Assistant Rebecca Mansour at [email protected] or mailed to her c/o Planning Department, 7120 Bodega Avenue, Sebastopol, California 95472.
There will also be a community meeting on Wednesday, November 2, 2016 at 6:00 p.m. at the Sebastopol Center for the Arts, 282 South High Street, Sebastopol where the three artists will present their proposals, and members of the public can provide comments and talk with the artists.
After the November 2 community meeting, the City’s Public Arts Committee will formulate its recommendations to the City Council, who will make a final selection decision. The selected artist will then be asked to enter into a contract, and will proceed with fabrication and installation.
We look forward to hearing from you!
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I like Ned's & Vickie's proposals!
Like the idea of highlighting our library, and or main entrance to town.
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I like Vickie's concept and would like to see it installed...it's friendly, warm, eco-conscious, and would represent Sebastopol well. Dustyg
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Here are the finalists!
Links to the artists statements about each piece:
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Sebastopol selects three finalists for public art project
MARY CALLAHAN
THE PRESS DEMOCRAT | October 25, 2016, 6:33PM
A living wall of colorful succulents planted in swirling patterns against the front of the local library building, its irrigation system built into the frame to ensure the plants thrive.
A suspended, overhead “gateway” of random shapes and objects strung on steel rigging cable at the downtown plaza, a quirky, abstract work designed to provoke whimsy and joy.
A shimmering, cylindrical 60-foot tower of hinged, wind-animated panels that reflect the sun and ripple like the water of the nearby Laguna de Santa Rosa, erected off the side of Highway 12 at the eastern gateway to town.
These are the three finalists selected for the city of Sebastopol’s first attempt at commissioned public art. Residents are being asked to help choose the winner, though the City Council will have the ultimate say.
The city’s Public Arts Committee is hosting a workshop and question/answer session on the three proposals next week so members of the public can weigh in. The five-member arts committee also will be making a recommendation for submission to the City Council.
The final choice will be paid for by the city through a fund created from fees on new development specifically earmarked for public art. The budget is $45,000 from a pool of funding that, in July, had accumulated $128,000.
One artist is so eager to supply a work for his own community that he is willing to donate much of the project.
Sebastopol resident Ned Kahn, whose kinetic sculptures can be found in far-flung places around the world, said his idea for the piece sprang from the beauty of the Laguna and his meditations on plant life and the vascular system, through xylem and phloem, that provide life.
His concept for Spire — a one-third-scale version of which has been built at his local workshop — features a tall, interior column of small, circular, stainless steel discs with an external skin of hinged rectangular aluminum panels, all of it subject to the movement of the wind and the sunlight that falls upon it during clear days.
If it’s selected, Kahn said he would work out the precise location of the sculpture through conversations with the city and Caltrans. He hopes it would mark the city’s entryway and highlight the natural setting of the Laguna.
Residents of Santa Rosa will be familiar with the work of another pair in the running for the Sebastopol prize.
Petaluma artists Mark Grieve and Ilana Spector created “Cyclisk,” the 60-foot, 10,000-pound obelisk made from recycled bicycle parts at Santa Rosa Avenue and South A Street.
Grieve said he and Spector pursued an abstract path for Sebastopol, a community dominated by the clever junk-art figures of Patrick Amiot. They conceived a mobile-like structure similar to the kind of toy a baby might have hanging over its crib or play area.
Grieve said they were inspired by the eclectic nature of communities that have evolved from farming communities now tied together by highways, bridges and general mobility. The artists liked the idea of placing their work at the downtown plaza at the city’s key intersection, where it could be enjoyed by people who gather downtown or anyone passing through on the highway.
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The Public Arts Committee will meet twice on Nov. 2, from 9:30 to noon and from 6 p.m. to 9 p.m., to talk with the artists about their proposals and hear presentations. The evening is expected to draw more members of the public and will provide opportunities for public input, Webster said.
Both meetings are at the Sebastopol Center for the Arts, 282 S. High St.
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Maybe we can feed two birds with one scone by building Ned Kahn's tower, and putting the KOWS antenna inside it!
Patrick Brinton
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