2006 ANNUAL REPORT AND
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Content Inside: ADOPTED 12/04/06 2006 ANNUAL REPORT AND 2007 ANNUAL PLAN OF THE PORTLAND PUBLIC ART PROGRAM I. OVERVIEW In April 2000 the City Council established the Portland Public Art Program to preserve, restore and enhance the City’s public art collection. The Portland Public Art Program commissions art that engages with the surrounding environment to create, enrich, or reveal a sense of place, and to express the spirit, values, visions and poetry of place that collectively define Portland. The public art collection currently contains twenty-six pieces that are permanently installed throughout Portland. The collection contains works of historical significance that date from the nineteenth century, as well as contemporary pieces that reflect the diversity and spirit of the city. The Portland Public Art Committee administers the Portland Public Art Program. The responsibilities of the Art Committee are outlined in Article XI of the City Code (Public Art Program). The Art Committee utilizes the Guidelines for the Public Art Ordinance (Volume 1, Number 1 – adopted May 2001) for direction in administering their responsibilities. A key element of the Portland Public Art Program was the establishment of a percent-for-art ordinance. This program allocates ½ of 1% of the City’s annual Capital Improvement Project (CIP) budget for the restoration, maintenance or acquisition of permanent public art. The Portland Public Art Committee has the following responsibilities: • Develop and present an Annual Public Art Plan to the City Council which includes recommendations for allocating the public art percentage of the CIP; administration of the program; conservation of the collection; and initiation of new projects; • Review potential gifts of art to the City’s public art collection, and make recommendations to the City Council on whether to accept or not accept the gifts; • Seek donations for preserving, restoring and/or expanding the art collection; and • Recommen ...
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