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PUBLIC ART COMMITTEE
The City Council acknowledges that works of art enhance the visual and sensual environment in the City, contributing to the quality of life in the City of Evanston. The City will provide works of art in public places, using private and available public funds, in accord with a public process. To provide a process by which the City shall acquire and maintain works of art; commission works of art; identify and administer a Public Art Fund for acquisition, maintenance and disposition of works of art; establish and administer a Public Art Plan and a Public Art Program; to dispose of works of art. (112-0-89).
Recent Projects
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Fire Station #5 Public Art Project
There is a community-wide effort to save the historic art in Evanston schools!
Are you aware of that several hundred objects of historic and artistic value still survive in Evanston schools? Learn more!
Margherita Andreotti, Ph.D., conducted a Preliminary Survey of Historic Art in the Evanston schools with contributions by Christine Bell, Ph.D., and Nancy Flannery. Their report is divided into two pdf files
(a written report as well as accompanying photos).
Report on public art in Evanston schools (350 KB)
Illustrations - art in Evanston schools (7.85 MB)
Community Public Art Program
Is there a site in your ward -- a wall, garden, corner, park, etc. -- that would benefit from a community art project? The Evanston Public Art Committee is pleased to encourage public art projects in a variety of neighborhoods throughout the City. The Community Public Art Program invites neighborhood groups to apply for funding support for public art projects that would enhance the quality of the community.
The Willard School amphitheatre mosaic, at left, was funded through this program.
The deadline for the 2009 applications was February 2, 2009. The files listed below can be used for informational purposes if you are thinking of applying for 2010. For more information, please call 847.448.8260.
Community Public Art Guidelines (pdf) Community Public Art Application (pdf)
Public Art Committee Members: 15
Term: Three members shall be appointed for one year. Three members shall be appointed for two years. Three members shall be appointed for three years. All members thereafter shall be appointed for three years.
The Committee shall include at least five professionals, and representatives from the fields of architecture, city planning, landscape architecture and/or engineering. A member of the Arts Council
shall be appointed as one of the fifteen (15) Committee members by the Mayor to serve as chair of the Committee.
Meeting Dates: 2nd Tuesday of each month, 6:15 p.m.
Place: Noyes Art Center - 927 Noyes St. - Room 106
Members |
Associate Members |
Joshua Barney, Co-Chair Katherine Best Jill E. Bugajski, Co-Chair Susan Clarke Mariah DeForest David Forte Jenifer McCartney Nina Moyer Gay Riseborough Amanda Wood |
Laura Saviano Adrienne Hirsch |
Staff:
Douglas J. Gaynor, Parks/Forestry, Recreation and Facilities Management Dept. Director, 847.866.2914
Jeff Cory, Cultural Arts/Arts Council Director, 847.448.8260
Jill Silverman, Secretary II, Cultural Arts Division, 847.448.8260
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