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  • From: Janet Kagan <jkagan AT nc.rr.com>
  • To: Frank Webb <frankwebb AT nc.rr.com>
  • Cc: 'Kate Flory' <kflory AT townofchapelhill.org>, chpac-staff AT lists.ibiblio.org
  • Subject: [Chpac-staff] Public Art
  • Date: Mon, 7 May 2007 08:31:21 -0400

Frank et al

Thank you for this link; the bibliography is wonderful.  

I would caution us to be careful about limiting the amount of the percent in our ordinance.  California recently prohibited allocating more than $100,000 per public art commission, which is a dangerous precedent for the field (although local municipalities may continue to administer their ordinance as adopted.)  As noted in the Contextual Plan, there are hundreds of percent for art ordinances across America and more are being drafted every month.  It would be a pity of Chapel Hill rolled-back all the hard work we as a Commission have achieved since 2002.

Janet




On May 6, 2007, at 1:16 PM, Frank Webb wrote:

CHPAC

 

I hope this email reaches you all. I got the address from Kate’s email and assume it is a group list

 

Apropos our discussion yesterday about what is public art, here is a link to the Wikipedia entry. Not the final authority, no doubt, but an interesting essay nonetheless. There is an interesting paragraph on “Percent for Art” which includes a formula that might be a model for a Chapel Hill compromise. “New York City has a law that requires that no less than 1% of the first twenty million dollars, plus no less than one half of 1% of the amount exceeding twenty million dollars be allocated for art work in any public building that is owned by the city. The maximum allocation for any site is $400,000.”

 

By the way, look at the marvelous Oldenburg piece on the right

 

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Public_art

 

Frank

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