Hey Kat--

Similar to Glenn's situation, the Arts Council of Indianapolis (a private non-profit organization acting as the Local Arts Agency) by ordinance manages our city's Public Art for Neighborhoods program. Although the process is not baked into the ordinance, we have a good working relationship with our Department of Metropolitan Development (probably similar to your RDA), who administers the developer incentive that our PAFN program is based on.  We looked at process together and created a "handoff" flow from them to us, plus co-developed standards for a Public Art Plan that the developer must submit to the oversight committee (which we manage) to ensure compliance with the ordinance. It's not perfect and with each developer situation we find ways to refine it, but it's working. We do not receive compensation directly from the city for this work, but we do get some public art admin $ from the Capital Improvements Board, which is a municipal corporation overseen by the city but runs more or less independently and operates projects through municipal bonds. There's not a lot of formal documentation laying out the relationship between the funding and PAFN, though it's part of our annual CIB funding request.

As for the developers, they can (and do!) take advantage of the Arts Council's free public art resources and services, and may, at their option, contract with us separately to manage their projects like a consultant would do. So far no developer has asked for that, but we have helped them create open calls, they have listed calls on our website, we have organized and managed jury panels for them (all of which we do free for anyone), and we have cheerfully answered questions as long as they don't cross the line into asking for work that we should be paid consultant wages to do.  We let them know that any paid services we are contracted to provide will be disclosed during the process of the city's approving their public art plan (city committee = sunshine laws and the meetings are open to the public), and the chair of the oversight committee--who is our Vice President--will recuse herself from the approval process. As I said, nobody has done that so far so the theoretical process has not been tested.

Happy to go into this in more detail privately. I can send you our ordinance text (limited as it is) as well.

Best,

Julia Muney Moore (she/her/hers)
Director of Public Art
Arts Council of Indianapolis

924 N. Pennsylvania St.
Indianapolis, IN  46204
(317) 631-3301 x 240
(317) 332-8382 mobile





On Wed, Jan 15, 2020 at 3:21 PM Glenn Weiss <glenn@culturalcouncil.org> wrote:
PAN,
The Cultural Council of Greater Jacksonville is a non-profit that manages the City of Jacksonville's Art in Public Places programs.  The City supports the salaries of Cultural Council staff.

By contract, the Cultural Council also produces public art projects for the Downtown Investment Authority ( or a Florida CRA or your RDA ).  We are basically inexpensive art consultants.  The artwork sponsored by the Authority becomes part of the City's art collection.  By contract, we follow the City policies for selecting and installing public art.  Our policies are very standard.  

Glenn Weiss
Director, Public Art Program
Cultural Council of Greater Jacksonville
Cell:  561-665-0029
Text:  561-665-0029 or 5616650029@tmomail.net

Public Art Project Managers Available for Assistance
Cultural Council Main Phone:  904-358-3600





On Wed, Jan 15, 2020 at 2:02 PM Nix, Katherine <Katherine.Nix@slcgov.com> wrote:

Dear Public Art Network,

 

We are working on an ordinance revision for our percent for art policy and are attempting to build out a bit on how our City public art program works with the Salt Lake City Redevelopment Agency (RDA) – who incentivizes local development. Currently, our ordinance only defines the Public Art Program’s role with regard to CIP projects and funds. The RDA also has a one percent for art policy that they are also revisiting as it hasn’t been enforced in years past. The RDA also sometimes uses their own budget of enterprise fees to fund art on City property that we run through our Public Art Program.

 

We are hoping for some guidance or examples of any program models that clearly outline how the public art program works with enterprise funds/RDA, and with percent for art programs aimed at private developers. We’ve connected with a few programs and learned that some public art programs charge fees for executing projects on behalf of the RDA, or only take on certain projects, but are trying to understand more clearly the relationship with public art programs and the developers the RDA works with. Also, if your program has policy or guidelines for working with enterprise funds/RDA’s, is it included in the ordinance or kept separate as an internal policy document?

 

Any advice, guidance, examples shared would be very appreciated.

 

Hope you all are having a good 2020 so far!

 

Best,

Kat

 

 

KAT  NIX

Public Art Program Manager

 

Salt Lake City Arts Council

SALT LAKE CITY CORPORATION

TEL 801-535-6512

 

WWW.SLCGOV.COM 

 

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