REPORT TO COUNCIL

SPECIAL ADVISORY COMMITTEE ON PUBLIC ART

December 8, 1997

INFORMATION

1. Annual Report

The Public Art Committee (PAC) was established in 1991 to advise Council, staff, artists and others in the Public Art Program. The Committee has nine members: five from the artist community (two of whom must be practising artists); two urban designers (usually an architect and a landscape architect); a developer; and a citizen.

During 1997, the Committee has allocated its time as follows:

(i)Recommending major public art processes for private-sector projects, including: Aoki Corporation’s Bayshore Gardens; Concord Pacific’s Quayside; 900 Block Seymour; and Marathon Realty’s Marina Neighbourhood at Coal Harbour.

(ii)Advising on civic public art projects including: Broadway & Clark/Queen Alexandra School; Southeast Granville Slopes Park; sixteen projects along the Ridgeway Greenway; Steam Vents at four downtown sites; Garden Drive Traffic Circles; and the Community Public Art Program grants.

(iii)Advising Council on allocations from the Public Art Budget and the Park Board on its "Guidelines for the Review of Proposed Donations of Public Art and/or Memorials to City-wide Parks", the AIDS Memorial, and the Forest Alliance’s proposal to replace Lumberman’s Arch in Stanley Park.

(iv)Advising the Planning Department on murals and other matters proposed for private developments.

1997 Highlights

The Committee hosted public information meetings at Simon Fraser University Downtown Campus for the third year, and implemented other measures to encourage public participation. The Committee is proud of the growth and maturity of the Program,as indicated by the number and variety of projects, and the launch of Panorama, the Program newsletter, which has been an effective means of publicizing Program aims and opportunities.

Members of the Committee during 1997 are listed in Appendix A. Civic projects installed on City streets since 1993 are listed in Appendix B. Community Public Art projects approved for 1997 are listed in Appendix C.

"Michael Banwell" "Patrick Condon"

Michael Banwell Patrick Condon

Co-Chair Co-Chair

CITY MANAGER'S COMMENTS

The City Manager submits the foregoing for INFORMATION.

APPENDIX A

Special Advisory Committee on Public Art

1997 Members

Marian Penner Bancroft

Artist and teacher, Emily Carr Institute

Michael Banwell (Co-Chair)

Artist and teacher, Emily Carr Institute

Patrick Condon (Co-Chair)

Professor of Landscape Architecture, UBC

Jane Durante

Landscape Architect, BCSLA Representative

Karen Henry

Director, Burnaby Art Gallery

Margaret Meikle

Writer, CBC Radio Columnist

George Pratt

Artist

John Wertschek

Architect and Design Instructor, and teacher, Emily Carr Institute

APPENDIX B

Street-Site Public Art

The following art works are now installed:

Title/Artist	Location	Description	Inst. Date
Dragon Mural/ Richard Tetrault	Keefer Rail Overpass--east end	Painted mural on east concrete ramp entrance to overpass	1994
Bird Feeders/ Rick Gibson	Woodland Drive Bridge	Four galvanized bird feeders sites on railing posts	1995
SubText/ Susan Schuppli	Commercial Drive Bridge over G. Cut	Ceramic tiles inscribed with signatures set in east sidewalk of bridge	1996
Bridging the Gap/ Healing the Cut/ Bowley/ Kellhammer	Grandview Cut betw. Broadway and Vic. Drive Bridges	Nest boxes, planting, and a telescope in an alcove of Victoria Dr. Bridge	1996
Footnotes/ Gwen Boyle	Pacific Bvld. betw. Drake & Homer	Text on granite pavers in sidewalk	1994
Refuse Collection/ Mark Lewis	Homer betw. Drake and Pacific Blvd.	3 red, wedge-shape time capsules and 3 stainless refuse containers	1994
Password/ Alan Storey	Pac. Blvd betw. Drake & Homer	Rotating letters in parking garage exhaust vents	1994
Leaf Benches/ Douglas Senft	Prince Albert & 15th Greenway	Two metal benches based on a leaf pattern	1996
Street Light/ Miller/Tregebov	Davie St. Traffic Circle & Sea Wall	Monumental truss-beam structure supporting 4' x 8' historic images	1997
DryStream/Anderson White	John Street Greenway	Pebble and ceramic mosaic in south ditch of G'way connector	1997
Sky Scrapers/ Marko Simcic	37th & Oak R’way Greenway Inters.	"Garden rake" sculptures mounted atop two cyclist-activated signal poles	1997
Poem Markers/ Sam Carter	Renfrew Ravine Greenway/	Two "totems" and six bollards sited beside ravine pathways	1997
Machina Metronoma/ Dwight Atkinson	37th & Granville (2) 37th & Granville (2) 37th & Fraser (3)	Sculptures mounted atop 12-ft cyclist-activated traffic signal poles	1997
Bicycle Wheel/ David MacWilliam	37th & Main (2)	Bike Wheel sculpture atop two cyclist-activated signal poles	1997
Welcome to the Land of Light /Henry Tsang	False Creek Ft. of Drake Street	English and Chinook letters on the Sea wall railing	1997

The following works are in progress:

Title/Artist	Location	Description	Inst. Date
Trail Mix/ Thomas Burrows	37th & Victoria (2) 37th & Clark (2)	Sculptures mounted atop 12-ft cyclist-activated traffic signal poles	??Jan/98
Bicycle Sculpture/ Potegal/Lugar	37th & Ontario St. boulevard	An over-size bicycle which forms a seat for cyclist	??mid-98
Converging Lines/ Elizabeth Roy	37th & Ross (1) 37th & Culloden(1)	"Clothes line" sculpture installations at each street closure	??mid98
Visibility Project/ Chew/Metz	Broadway at Clark, southeast corner	street banners along B’way; four corner poles with banners; bollards	??mid98
Working Landscape/ Daniel Laskarin	901 West Hastings (N. foot of Hornby	Three rotating/one stationery turntables, benches, and planting	Feb/98
Brush With Illumination/Buster Simpson	In False Creek betw. Drake & ???	Tidal-activated fixed/floating sculpture based on paint brush or computer cursor	May/98
Steam Vents/ artist TBA	Four Downtown sidewalk sites	A replacement for the planter steam-dispersal system	Fall 1998
SEGS Park/ Pechet & Robb	Park at the corner of Beach and Hornby	An over-size table and chairs at the foot of the stairs	Fall 1998

APPENDIX C

1997 COMMUNITY PUBLIC ART PROJECTS

Mount Pleasant Community Centre Association

Title: Banners on Broadway

Neighbourhood street banners along East Broadway from Guelph Street to Victoria Drive.

South Vancouver Neighbourhood House

Title: Beautiful Banners on Victoria Drive

The creation and placement of banners on Victoria Drive. The organizers will identify the residents who would be involved, the community partners that are supporting the program ( BIA, Library, School and others) and jointly devise a theme.

Britannia Community School Society

Title: Days of Sun

The project will produce a number of art works embedded in sidewalks on Commercial Drive, to record the history, land uses, and future visions of the Grandview-Woodlands.

Vancouver Art Forum Society

Title: December 6th Discussion II

500 photos by clients of the Downtown Eastside Women’s Centre will be the source for a series of posters, bus shelter advertisements, and an exhibition at Festival Cinemas.

Wondertree Foundation

Title: Ecocafe Sustainability Centre

Qualified artists will engage participants in a youth-driven collaboration to create temporary artworks which raise awareness of environmental options to the South East False Creek.

Britannia Community Services Centre

Title: Children’s Animal Gateway

A gateway and animal checkerboard for the children's play area of Victoria Park.

Queen Victoria School Annex (VSB)

Title: Linked by the games we play

A tile mural depicting the history of children’s games from a variety of cultures. Students will interview their parents about the games that they played and use this as a basis for creating images for the tile mural.

Mid-Main Community Health Centre

Title: Mid-Main Mural Project

A mural around the entrance door of this much-used community facility. The artist will involve centre staff and clients, as well as local high-school students.

Sir James Douglas School (VSB)

Title: Sandwiches and Secrets around the Table

Two outdoors artworks - a "table" sculpture and a tile "rug". Theses would become permanent features and serve as places for students to eat their lunches and meet.

Carnegie Community Centre Association

Title: Street Visions

Murals on canvas and hung on the exterior of the buildings, able to be taken down and carried as parade banners.

Trafalgar Elementary School (VSB)

Title: Trafalgar Tile Wall

A tile mural, on the front of Trafalgar Elementary School, reflecting the cultural diversity of the community and trace the school’s fifty-year history of changing demographics.

Sunset Community Centre Association

Title: Welcoming Walkway

A walkway to the refurbished Moberly Community Hall, signalling its new function as centre for community-based arts activity.

(c) 1997 City of Vancouver