We're going to go ahead and call the Public Art Advisory Committee meeting to order. Please rise for the Pledge of Allegiance. United States of America. First up is the approval of the minutes from the March 23rd meeting. Make a motion to approve. Cindy makes a motion to approve. Second. Fighting for a second. Burke gets the second. Any comments or questions, changes, discussion? Seeing none, all in favor, say aye. Aye. Anyone opposed? No. Moving right along. Does anyone have any conflicts of interest they'd like to talk about at this time for this meeting in particular? None. Public, old business. AIPP program and project updates. Ms. Elise Roth. Good afternoon, everyone. I swear it wasn't on purpose that we're going to talk about maintenance first. Just going to coin in a maintenance Monday. So, Art and Public Places, we've been full on in maintenance mode the past few months. Diane and I actually did two field visits, which was quite fun to split up and check on all of our inventory. Everything really, for the most part, is looking great. We checked all our outdoor pieces. The inside, we assume, you know, sitting here, that they're fine. Maybe a little dust that needs to come off. But with that said, I wanted to show you the refresh that happened at Sailfish Slash Water Park with Shannon Wiley. There isn't any sound. So, he had come at the end of March to redo all of the murals at the water park. He had been there for, like, two and a half days. And it just looked so much better. They look brand new? Wow. I'm sorry? They look brand new? Yeah. It really needed it. Naturally, just the sun exposure and probably pool chemicals and everything else just wasn't working in its favor. And then here was another one. Oh. Yeah. This one was so much better. And he had added a few, like, extra little touches that didn't exist from last time, which was kind of fun. So, that was that. Silent Sounds of Service was recently relocated, thanks to our general services team, to the Firehouse 21 in Palm City. Here they all are. It really looks so great in this location. And it was overall an easy install, right? Here was another picture of it in front of the firehouse. And as you recall, the Yap Money stones, like the Flintstone-looking stones we put to auction, those did sell to a private individual in Punta Gorda. So, if you ever want to go visit them, they are on the West Coast. Did he come and get them? He did. Yeah. He coordinated with the City of Stewart staff. And where does the money from that sale go to? We got $50. We are rich. I believe we put it into maintenance. And yet there's no pizza at this party at all. At the mall? How much did they sell for? $50. Total $50. Yes. They were just trying to get rid of it. What are you offering $75? I thought I was. I thought you were. So, we're happy that they found a new home and we got them out of Gazebo Park. So, for the remaining sculptures, we are working with Mia Lindberg and her team to have this piece in particular, Tumbling Towards the Sun, redone. That one, out of the three that are left, really needs the most amount of work. Thankfully, red angle that's pictured here really looks good. And then transponder also looked good. So, we were happy about that. Which one are you going to bring to the Golden Gate? All three of them. So, we are hoping July we can have the cement pads poured. I did have a meeting with Susan with Commissioner Hetherington. So, we're going to work with her to walk the site and find where we'd like to stick them. So, that's exciting. Are they steel? Yeah, right? Steel, aluminum, some other things. Are you going to help move them? I'm just curious. They look bulky. And then related to maintenance. So, what we have upcoming is Magnify in Palm City by Kirk Seas. The kaleidoscope-looking pieces, those definitely need some attention. So, we have since reached out to him and hopefully we can get a quote here soon and coordinate when he can come down to Florida and make those repairs. And then we also, I know we talked about it in our CRA meeting, the manatee pocket gateway, those benches. So, that is on our radar to have fixed as well as the mosaic pond at the Tuckahoe Mansion. There's like a few tiles that need to be filled back in or have lost color. So, we have that on our radar. So, that's all I had in regards to maintenance. If anyone had any other questions for me, comments. Good? Mm-hmm. Okay. So, next on my show and tell, I went last month to the Florida Art, Florida Association of Public Art Professionals Conference. I went for two days. It was in West Palm Beach. The first day, we went on a bus tour all throughout, well, mostly unincorporated West Palm and we visited 11 sites. It was really great to see how they integrated their public art into, you know, public spaces and different things. But furthermore on that, the commissions that they had made that weren't public art in the traditional sense, like it wasn't a sculpture or what you would think to be. So, I just wanted to share some photos that I took. This is at the Cacti Park, Cacti Ballpark. And if it can load, here we are. This was like a really interesting screen system that they had put all throughout the park. And when you zoom in, you can see, well, I have more pictures of it, that it's the different like sequence and motions of when you go to throw a baseball or a softball. So, I thought that was just such a creative here, you can see it here, creative way to, you know, create shade, but also talk about the space that they're in being the ballpark. And then my favorite part, of course, was like all this cool shadow that it created. They did say that the maintenance on this is kind of horrendous, but it doesn't make up for the fact that it is a really great installation. Next, we had, of course, my favorite, the iconic vote that they have installed at their supervisor of elections office. I forget how tall these flamingos are, but they are just the coolest thing. So, that was a big hit amongst everyone at the conference. I took this one for Susan because, of course, she loves flamingos. Okay, this piece is at the Mount's Botanical Garden. It's called A Window into the Floating World. So, this, when we talk about in our CRA meetings with, like, the pocket parks and things, like, I would have never looked at this and thought, oh, that's an Art in Public Places commission. But it was just a really beautiful piece to walk and, like, be part of the environment. And I just thought that was such an interesting take on public art that wouldn't be, again, in the traditional sense. This, I just thought, was a really cool bench. There wasn't an artist plaque or anything with it, but I just thought it was so beautiful and organic and sculptural and it just fit the environment so nicely. This was at the Four Points Office building. So, I guess they're an administrative building for Palm Beach County. It is all terrazzo floors that accompanied stained glass windows. And I have terrazzo floors in my house, and so I have, like, a big appreciation for all the work that goes into it. But, you know, here's a public art commission that's on the floor versus on a wall. And I think that that is such a unique perspective, and it makes such a difference to the space. This was at their sheriff's department. I just thought it was a really great community project and having all the different features that they went back to the community to ask that they thought represented their sheriff's department. And it's, like, I forgot the process they called for this, but it's, like, a, like, embossed glass. And it served not only as, like, a privacy screen for their lunch area, but it's just a beautiful lit-up signage also for people knowing. Because, funny enough, their sheriff's department offices share the same building as tourism, which is very, I think, kind of interesting, right? So, for people that show up to the building, they know when they're at the sheriff's side because of this piece. And then tourism has a whole other commission piece on that side of the building. So I thought that was fun. This is inside the Mendel Library in downtown West Palm. Just really cool. Nothing much more to say about that. That was newly installed in the last, like, three weeks ahead of the conference. That was painted? It's, I think, all vinyl-wrapped. So the artists had painted it or designed it in, you know, InDesign or something. But when they wrapped it, like, wallpaper. But, I mean, right? How cool. Great colors. And this was a group photo of everyone. So the part two, it was a lot of panel discussions with artists, their perspective, working with the community. It was really insightful from, like, a public art administration side to hear the artist's perspective in working in these projects. But this photo in particular was taken at the Norton Museum. The keynote speaker was Hank Willis Thomas, which was amazing. He's pictured right here. And I had been a fan of his ever since I was in art school and college. So to be within, like, ten feet of him and listen to him speak was just so epic. So I was really grateful for the experience. And that was my conference. I learned a lot. I learned that we are not the only ones with baby budgets. But we can still do a lot of great things with a baby budget. I'm excited and inspired, to say the least. And then lastly, all I had in my updates was I've been talking with Mr. Redling and the Habitat for Humanity Restore about a potential new mural project, community mural project. This is all very, like, early conversations. But the building couldn't be more perfect for a community mural. So I just wanted to show you the site. It faces Dixie Highway. I didn't put your drawing in this folder, but I should have. So we are excited at the opportunity to potentially get a project going through the Martin Murals program and maybe some other funding sources to have that. You know, when I was in Morocco, you know, they have a lot of large building. And on the wall, like, facing the, you see there's a big mural. I mean, just really, you know, very interesting. Now, here is a building where people live, yet you see there's a big mural. It's just... I love murals. I know. I know, and I... Everywhere. It was really nice. I think this would be such a great project for Golden Gate and then just off of Dixie Highway, making it visible and bright and fun and... I wish we could talk to the guy next, I mean, on this side with the landscape. What, Janice? No, landscape. I don't know what his name, but he was very... I mean, that would be nice to have something in there. He's got a long fence. It took us... Remember, Susan took us a long time to get him to cover that. There's another building, though, the boat shop there. Yeah. Parts, they have a beautiful mural on theirs as well, so that'll look nice. That is an exciting prospect. And then lastly, and I didn't have it on the agenda because it was very recent, Susan and I were on a phone call with Andrew Seth, who helps with doing the county grants. We are looking to apply for a National Endowment for the Arts grant, specific to hopefully have a piece commissioned for Golden Gate on El Camino. So every year, the NEA has priorities of projects they'd like to fund. This year, they had seven, one of which being Make America Healthy Again. So this kind of lent itself well with El Camino and what the goals and purpose of El Camino are to have a specific piece of art commissioned or a series of pieces of art commissioned for that. And I just briefly wanted to show you, this was the artist team I wanted to use as the urban, as an example of someone I'd love for us to commission for that type of project. They do a lot of placemaking pieces that revolve around play and enhancing community spaces. As you can see, it's just very cool. So with that said, the deadline is July 9th, and Andy's working with us to build out that application. The funding can be anywhere between $10,000 to $100,000 that we ask, and there is a match that goes with it. So we'll get that all going. But we're excited, and it's worth putting in the application, and hopefully we could have another great project. I love this one in particular. I don't know that the sound is going to work. No frogs, please. No frogs? Oh, here we go. Went ahead and went. This is a great example of what they do. People are very stuck being inside and keeping to themselves. So the idea of a community is a place that people feel like they can then know their neighbors, know the people next to them. And this is something that I saw and we saw when we went to the Lower Ninth that existed very strongly. When we were there, we got invited to a barbecue in front of someone's house. We didn't know them. We met them for five minutes. The fact that people would open their doors for someone that they barely even knew, that is a community for me. So we're really focused on doing something that could be active and bring play on an everyday basis. So since this was the local grocery store, the bus stop, the kids' bus stop in the morning, we wanted something that people could easily flow through, play and interact with, and then move on with their day. So that's when we came up with the idea of creating the Hangout, an installation that brings people together and allows them to interact with one another through this idea of play. We were really focused on providing this through focusing on different senses, so sight, sound, and touch. The open embrace that the community had for it was awesome to see. Katrina happened 11 years ago, and the road that's right in front of the installation just got redone two months before we installed. You see, like, people walking up, and you don't really know what to expect, especially working out there at night, and people coming up, and you get kind of nervous, and then they tell you, like, oh, thank you so much. My kids are going to like this, you know? And having that impact is just really cool to see and really cool to embrace. Fingers crossed, so. And that's all I have on my updates today. Thank you. Any questions or comments? Only, I'm proud of her. Thanks. I think we're all proud of you. Yes, guys. All right, then we'll move back. I would say public comments, but there's no public. Member comments? He's waving. I mean, if you've got something to say. Member comments, anyone? I just liked the walkway you showed in West Palm when you were at that, and it made me start thinking of a project in Hope Sound where the train station is, and there's been discussion about the tracks and creating some kind of section of tracks to bring back at the train station, and it would be interesting to have some kind of artistic flair to those tracks, whether they are interactive or how it would work. But how can we make it happen? Yeah, absolutely. That sounds like another great project. Yeah, put it on the list. Yeah, that's the walkway. And I think the tracks could be something that could have an artistic feel to them as well as a functional feel. Great idea. Anyone else? None? None, none, none. Staff comments? Elise, you're the staff, so. I have none for today. Other than thank you, everyone, for being here. And thank you, everyone. We are adjourned. Thank you.