Good afternoon, and welcome to the Public Art Advisory Committee meeting for July 27th. I will call the meeting to order. If we could all please stand for the pledge. United States of America, and to the republic for which it stands, one nation, under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. Thank you. I need to entertain a motion for the approval of the minutes, please. Make a motion. I'll second it. Any questions, changes, concerns? Okay, all those in favor, please signify by saying aye. Aye. Any conflicts of interest? No, ma'am. Okay, right on to new business. Temporary Sculpture Exhibition in Gazebo Park. This sounds fun. Yes, so good afternoon, board, madam chair. It's great to see everyone. So, as you know, we have been having our artwork with Gary Gasko's exhibit in Gazebo Park for the last few years, and now that we've been relocating those pieces and in process, we have a new opportunity that we should be exploring. So, without further ado, I just wanted to get into this temporary sculpture exhibit concept. So, the opportunity. Gazebo Park is a great fit because much of the infrastructure is already there. We have the six sculpture pads. We have lighting. We have a predominant downtown location with weddings, events, people walking by. So, it's a great spot to do such an exhibit. With it being a rotating temporary show, we would get new artwork on a regular basis, and then that means repeat visits to the park and just more opportunities for artists. So, successful model. So, Orange County does, for the last 11 years, a program called Sculpture on the Lawn. They highlight regional, national, and international artists. They have four sculptures on display, and they get about 10,000 visitors daily to that space, which is amazing. And they open it to professional artists, emerging artists, and students. And I just wanted to make note of that, that that's quite unique for professional public art opportunities. There's not so many avenues for emerging and students to apply, so I thought that was really unique with their program. The community loves it, and it's been continued, again, for 11 years now. And a fun fact, the tallest sculpture that they've had on display in its 11 years was 40 feet tall, which probably would not be allowed in Martin County because of the four-story limit, but can you just imagine, like, even getting it there? You could have buried it a little bit. Right? It's just amazing. So, these are just a few examples of photos of how it looks on their lawn. I did want to show a little video that they had on Facebook of installing their latest show. So, you can see the artists setting it up, new exhibit. So, yeah, super fun. And, okay, so why should we be considering a temporary exhibition? Again, it's the fresh experiences to be brought to the park on a yearly basis. It creates ongoing opportunities for artists. When I went to the Florida Association of Public Art Professionals Conference in April, all the agencies were saying doing a temporary show is just, like, the best stretch of, you know, limited dollars and smaller budgets. And then the number one thing that's attractive is that we're not on the hook for the maintenance because we would be loaning these pieces. We're not in charge of taking care of them and having them be looked after the rest of forever. So, that is all great. So, what this could look like in Gazebo Park, again, we have the six sculpture pads already built in. We could do it on a yearly or bi-annual, like, every two years. We would be able to curate it as art in public places, and it would be a partnership with the city of Stewart. We could have regional and national artists. And this is a great outdoor, high-quality exhibit for our residents and visitors that they can go see for free at any time. And so, discussion and next steps. So, right now, we are working with Legal to propose a curatorial partnership to bring to the city of Stewart. We're evaluating the exhibition schedule, the artist selection process, installation requirements, insurance and logistics. When we had our Zoom call with Dawn Knight, who oversees, I think I already said that, the art in public places up in Orlando, she gave me a plethora of really great resources to already work from with sample contracts and what they have in place in Orlando with how the program works. So, we already have, like, a leg up. So, I'm really excited about that. And hopefully, in our next time we meet, I'll be able to bring, like, a sample call to artists and we can really try to get this going. So, again, this was purely just to bring for information purposes, not so much for anything to vote on today. So, I'm happy to entertain any questions, if you have any comments, what you like, what you don't like. Why a partnership with the city of Stewart? So, the city leases Gazebo Park from the county. Got it. And so, it would naturally, we would need to. You know that. Yeah. Now, they will be there for us. So, that would be up to us. If we could do it for a year that they're on display and it rotates, and we could do every two years it rotates, it really would be a matter of what we decided. Do we have any idea what temporary art would cost us to? So, Orlando, what they do is a $5,000 stipend. And how that works is that they get $4,000 up front with the installation of their work. And then when they come pick it up, they get the $1,000. And that's all it is. And, of course, like, you know, they carry insurance while it's on display. But if there's any damage or harm, the artist would have to be on the hook for that. So, it wouldn't be directly on. Not bad. And what about installation and mounting? Like, is that the. Because, obviously, we have these pads. And if you've seen. Well, I'm sure, obviously, you've seen the sculptures there. You know, they've already got mounts embedded within the concrete. So, would that be the artist's responsibility? So, Orlando does. They work with a third-party company that does the artwork installation. The artist can assist. But I think with how insurance purpose and needs are needed, it's just better to go through a third-party company to do the install. Otherwise, they have to carry this, like, crazy liability insurance for the day. And a lot of artists don't want to pay for that. But, so, how Orlando's been doing it is with this company. And it was $6,000 about when I asked her what that would look like to install the four pieces that they're doing. And that didn't seem too bad at all. And are these pieces from, in the Orlando case with their four pieces, are they all from the same artist? So, varying artists and they coordinate it all for the same time period to have them all installed at the same time. Yes. So, they install and de-install all on the same day. And they do a pizza party while that's happening. Okay. All right. Interesting. Who's paying the $5,000? Well, I mean $6,000. We, as Art and Public Places, would cover that. And how many pieces would be? We'd have anywhere to, from, I would think, $3,000 to $6,000, $4,000 to $6,000. We have the six pads. Gresco pieces we had, we had five. And then we had an info sign on the sixth pad. So, we could even do something like that. Looking at the sculptures that you showed us from Orange County and looking at the pads we have, it looks like we're going to have to expand those pads. I was wondering about that, speaking with Susan. So, their pads, it's 12 by 12 feet, which is pretty substantial. Ours are four by six. So, that could be something to be considered. We also have, in Gazebo Park, a lot more trees in the area than they do on their lawn. So, those are different, you know, site differences that would have to be in consideration. Like, they have a minimum six-foot requirement on their call. And then, literally, they have it written, sky's the limit on height. Well, we have height restrictions with trees and everything else. So, it could be worth exploring expanding the pads or doing a first call run to see how it works within the four by six. The pieces would then have to fit that. Yeah, exactly. And also, how they have it is, you know, artists, it could be pre-made work already or it could be a proposed concept specific for the show. So, it's all scored by individual piece and not a body of work. And from what Don told me, they have annually 150 applicants for this. So, it's successful for not only a viewer standpoint, but artists seemingly are happy with that stipend. And you think about sculptors, if they have work sitting in their studios, naturally, they want it to be seen and out and moved around. So, that was reassuring that artists, that many artists are applying to something like this. And when they started out, their stipends, I think she said, were like $3,000. And then, as the show grew, it went up and probably with inflation and just overall cost of everything, it went up a little. So, what kind of budget do we anticipate needing or do we have the funds? Yeah, so we have earmarked for our 27 budget, $20,000 for this. Three pieces. Well, yeah, we could, again, we could have a smaller stipend to have all six. We could have a larger stipend for three or four. So, it really just has to be when we bring the call forward, looking at the, you know, budget and the realistics of hidden costs. If we have a company that's going to do the install and all of that. When you said $6,000, don't go and be at peace? No, that was for all of the installation. For all four of them in Orlando, that was $6,000 to do all the install. And those are big, so you may not even be spending that much. If we have a limited size on the 4x6 pad, you may have a, you know, five-foot piece or something. But we certainly learned with a windy day in Palm City, some artwork, you need a giant forklift and a whole crew to shut down a road. What is a curatorial partnership? Does that mean you guys decide on the pieces together or is that just an okay to put pieces there? I mean, more so it was written that the city would agree to allow art in public places to just curate the exhibit that happens in Gazebo Park. And if we could have an agreement that was more than on a yearly basis, but, you know, okay, three to five years, we can program the park with public art. Gotcha. I like the idea. I think it's cool. Yeah. And I think I like the idea that it's not a commitment forever. You mentioned, you know, not maintenance and everything. Yeah, and having to keep up with it. And just that freshness, bringing new work in on a yearly or bi-yearly basis is a really epic, especially as residents here, to go see something new. It's super cool. Okay. All right. Thank you. Thank you. Okay. Our next item up is old business, our program project updates. So this will be brief. We have been in full-on maintenance since the last time I saw you all, too. So starting off with the Gary Gresko pieces, we have three left in Gazebo Park. And as El Camino is in construction, we're working on getting with Mia Lindbergh to do the restorations on two of the pieces. And then we'll have them all set and ready to go when it's time to go to El Camino. So that'll be really exciting. And then Magnify. So I don't know if you all are familiar with Magnify. That's at the Cummings Library. Kirk came down from Maryland to pick up that piece for restoration. And so it's not there right now, but it'll be coming back hopefully the end of next month, all brand new and shiny and fabulous to enjoy. And then lastly, Serenity. So the turtle that was at the Blake Library. Brenda's been hard at work to piece it all together. But as we all know with how hot it is outside and she has an outdoor studio, that has been put on halt. And she also said because how the tiles adhere and stuff like the glue isn't sticking all the way together. So hopefully she's going to resume things next month and we'll get that by early fall back in the courtyard of the Blake Library. And lastly, oh, I just remembered. So we just submitted our NEA grant for hopefully a epic project in El Camino. So fingers crossed. Susan, do you know when we'll find out if we get it in January? Okay. So we have some time, but let's put out our good energies that we get this grant because it would be really, really awesome. Maybe the grant opening will be January. No. What did you say? Don't say it. Don't say it. Well, I'm hoping it'd be October. Otherwise, I don't know. That includes all my updates. Well, thank you very much, Elise. Okay. Seeing as how we have no public, we don't have any public comments. Do we have any member comments at this time? Anybody? No. Staff comments? I'm all set for today. All righty. Well, then, thank you very much for everything. And this meeting is adjourned. Thank you.