Urban Design Project Initiation
Budget: $61,700 (percent for art)
Timeline: Proposed Design by August 2021
Type: Educational – flood awareness
Standing Selection Panel:
- Arts Commissioner – Maria Cole
- Artist – Mark Villarreal
- Arts Professional/Comm Member – Brendan Picker
- Arts Professional/Comm Member – Charlotte LaSasso
- Arts Professional/Comm Member – Gabrielle Schuller
Technical Review Committee:
- Project Consultant – Kyle Doernbecher, RS&H Design
- Landscape Architect – Mark Wilcox, DHM Design
- Lindsay Merz, Transportation Project Manager
- Katie Knapp, Greenways Project Manager
- Office of Arts and Culture Staff – Mandy Vink and Carissa Saxton
Process:
- Invitational Request for Concepts (RFC) in response to ‘Problem Statement’
- Semifinalists invited to develop concept and interview
- Finalist recommended to Arts Commission and Transportation Advisory Board (TAB), City Manager
- Finalist joins team as designer
- Contract: Urban Design vs Public Art
Selected Artist: Anthony Garcia Sr of Birdseed Collective
Anticipated install: Spring 2024
Rendering of Garcia’s proposed project.