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HomeMy WebLinkAbout2025 - ART IN PUBLIC PLACES BOARD - WORK PLANWork Plan City of Fort Collins ART IN PUBLIC PLACES BOARD 2025 Work Plan Purpose: The City recognizes that art is vitally important to the quality of life in the community. Art in Public Places (APP) program is intended to: · Encourage and enhance artistic expression and appreciation. · Add value to the Fort Collins community through acquiring, exhibiting, and maintaining public art. Goals: The principal goals of the APP program are to: (1) Enrich the public environment for both residents and visitors through the visual arts. (2) Increase public access to works of art. (3) Promote understanding and awareness of the visual arts in the public environment. (4) Promote a variety of artistic expression in the community. (5) Contribute to the community’s civic pride in its cultural diversity. The APP artist collaborates with the project design team early in the process to integrate the art concepts with the project goals. This collaborative approach is a model for public art programs across the country. Artist Gale Whitman worked with students at Kinard Core Knowledge Middle School to design paint a Transformer Cabinet Mural featuring pollinators. The program started in 2004 as a collaboration between Art in Public Places and Utilities Light and Power. Serving as a graffiti abatement program, the murals help lower maintenance costs while adding bright colorful art in unexpected places. fcgov.com/artspublic @focoart APP Board and Program in 2025: · The APP Program will celebrate its 30th Anniversary in 2025 Support equity and inclusion practices in APP projects and outreach. · Advise City Council on projects and programs relating to public art, design, education, aesthetics, and APP funding. · Review and make recommendations to City Council on all APP projects and art donations to the City. · Generate ways to promote and market APP. · Further develop an APP database. · Share best practices with other local and national agencies on the APP processes and projects. · Support the implementation of the FoCo Creates: Arts and Culture Master Plan: a. (1.1D) Assess the location of public art installations; research opportunities to place public art in underserved locations. b. (1.3D) Promote the opportunity to serve on the Art in Public Places Board with the goal of having the Board reflect the community. a. (3.2E) APP Program assessing expanded opportunities including temporary art installations, neighborhood partnerships, and the creation of major gateway artworks. b. (3.2F) Research opportunities to increase funding for public art including a percent for art increase, public-private partnerships, and private development incentives. Current Projects: APP is currently working on about twenty projects, including annual projects. These projects are usually developed in conjunction with a larger capital construction project, so the art project timeline coincides with the construction timeline. All these projects have an artist working with the city project design team to develop concepts that meet the overall goals of the capital project. Annual Projects: APP has several projects that happen every year. These include Artist Consultant List, Pedestrian Pavers, Pianos About Town, and Transformer Cabinet Murals. Upcoming Projects: APP will be partnering with City capital projects in 2025, including art projects that add to the community and neighborhood livability, are placed along transportation corridors, and support Fort Collins’ environmental health, and create new community partners. Upcoming projects include Oak Street Stormwater Improvements, Power Trail and Harmony Crossing, Schoolside Park, and West Elizabeth Bus Rapid Transit (BRT) Corridor.