“A plan will help us coordinate public art ideas, reach into the community and hear from them what kind of public art they’re interested in.”
“There is no consistent, dedicated public funding stream for public art currently in Columbus,” said Jami Goldstein, spokesperson for the
“The city of Columbus proper does not have a budget line item for public art,” but individual budgets for new city construction projects sometimes can include funding, Goldstein said.According to the city's Department of Finance and Management, the capital budget has included funding for 22 public art projects totaling $821,500 over the past decade, ranging in cost from $750 to $200,000.
In addition, the master plan also must address the issue of equity. Of the city’s artwork in which information about the artist is known, 93% of the artists were males, and 85% of those males were white, according to information in the RFP. “It map-plans in our case because we have been operating ad hoc on projects for so long,” Nance said. “A plan will help us coordinate public art ideas, reach into the community and hear from them what kind of public art they’re interested in — not specifically, not an artist per se — but what art means in each of the neighborhoods.”“Plans should be that way, I don’t know that we will get that specific about it, although we may,” Nance said.
The plan can say “we want to invest in artists who live here now, grew up here, or have a strong tie to our region,” Moore told The Dispatch. “It could provide for a public art committee to review potential sites, projects, etc. It could set certain goals for equity of distribution, or it could say something like ‘artists who are chosen to create public art for our city must be representative of the community in which their project will be situated.
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