Parks, Recreation and Cultural Resources Department
Public Art Advisory Board
MINUTES
Parks, Recreation and Cultural Resources
Conference Room
Present: Carol Aupperle, Chair; Eric
Forehand; Ginger Castle; Pat Hudson; Elizabeth Ray; Smythe
Richbourg; Marla Dorrel,
Council
Liaison; Denise Dickens,
Staff; Staff; Vicki Hayes, Staff
A. Call
to Order Carol Aupperle, Chair
B. Roll
Call
·
Noting those absent
Carl Regutti; Mathias Bishop; Ginger Hayes
·
Noting a quorum is present
Quorum
was present at
C. Adoption
of Agenda
·
Approval of DRAFT agenda
ACTION: Smythe
Richbourg made a motion to approve the agenda.
Pat Hudson seconded. The motion
passed unanimously.
D. Minutes
·
Approval of DRAFT 16 May 2007 minutes
ACTION: Eric Forehand
made a motion to approve the
E. New
Business
·
Review artwork
placement West Regional Library CVA
o
Cary Visual Art (CVA) is working with the West Regional
Library on phase 1 of placing public art at the library.
o
Phase 1 is seating for the courtyard area. The seats would be made of concert with the
tops being smooth. On top of the seats
would be an opportunity for artwork designs embedded into the terrazzo.
o
The public will have an opportunity to make suggestions on
what they would like to see on the seats.
ACTION: Smythe Richbourg made a motion to approve the
public art exterior seating design for the of the West
Regional Library. Pat Hudson
seconded. The motion passed unanimously.
·
West Regional
Library Funding Request
o
The Board discussed the letter funding request from Terri
Luke, Regional Library Supervisor for West Regional Library.
o
The Board questioned if the Town had a funding program
establish for item of this nature. At
this time, the Town does not have funding program.
ACTION: Ginger Castle made a motion to decline the
opportunity to fund phase 2 and 3 of the West Regional Library because the Town
does not a funding program established.
Smythe Richbourg seconded. The
motion passed unanimously.
F. Old
Business
·
o
The sewer lines are needing to be addressed, before placing the documents
out to bid.
·
US 1/64 Pedestrian Greenway bridge Update
o
The artist
Michael Stutz is currently working with the engineer that designed the bridge
to develop a method to attach artwork.
·
o
Pat Hudson is
chairing the artist review panel on this project. She explained the first meeting went
well. The panel selected two finalists,
Jim Hirschfield and Sonya Ishii (team) and Norie Sota to interview. There were two alternates selected Thomas
Sayre and Susan Zoccola.
o
Denise Dickens
presented background on each artist.
o
The interviews
will be on
·
Town Hall Campus Update
o
Staff is still
talking with Catherine Widgery. Ms.
Widgery would like to come see the complete Town Hall Campus project to get
ideas. Funding to bring Catherine to
o
Lyman Collins
will have more information at a later meeting.
·
Downtown Streetscape Update
o
Elizabeth Conner
has been in town one week a month working on this project.
o
Staff distributed
a handout from Ms. Conner on preliminary integrated artwork concepts.
o
There will be a
public meeting on
o
Council women
Dorrel asked about the historic district and if the artist was looking into the
background on
·
Review current PAAB Goals
o
Staff suggested
having a speakers bureau that the Board could inform staff on when a meeting
was taking place and staff or the Board could attend the meeting to talk about
public art.
G. Reports
from Representative Organizations
·
o
The Take a Seat
project has chairs located throughout the Town.
o
The Art Ball is
scheduled for November 2007
·
Fine Arts League of Cary (FALC) Carl Regutti
o
No report at this
time.
·
Other Organizations
H. Public
Speaks Out (opportunity for guests and members to address Board limit 5
minutes per speaker)
o
Carol Aupperle
highlighted several articles that have been in the paper.
I. Adjourn
o
Smythe Richbourg
made a motion for the meeting to adjourn at
The Town of
Please contact Vicki Hayes
with any questions about this agenda.
The e-mail address is vicki.hayes@townofcary.org
and the phone number is (919) 319-4560.