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                                REPORT TO COUNCIL

                    SPECIAL ADVISORY COMMITTEE ON PUBLIC ART


                                 JANUARY 8, 1996


     INFORMATION


     1.   Annual Report

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

          Since it reported to  Council on January 31, 1995,  the Committee
     has allocated its time as follows:

          1)   Advising  on  major  private-sector  art  processes  by
               Concord  Pacific  at  False  Creek  North; by  Bayshore
               Gardens, ASPAC Developments,  and Marathon Realty,  all
               at Coal  Harbour; and by Monterey  Developments at 1200
               West Georgia.

          2)   Advising on  public art for Library  Square, for Public
               Works  Canada  Tower, for  901  West  Hastings, and  on
               Community Public Art Program grants.

          3)   Advising   on  the   1995   Public  Art   Capital  Plan
               allocations adopted by Council on December 7, 1995.

          4)   Advising  on revisions,  developed in  conjunction with
               Urban  Development Institute, for maintain-ing art work
               on  private  development  lands;  and  advising on  the
               Public Art Reserve.

          5)   Advising the  Planning Department  on murals  and other
               matters proposed for private develop-ments. 



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     2.   Highlights

          In  May, the  Committee  hosted a  series of  public informa-tion
     meetings about  the Program at  SFU Downtown.   These proved  to be  a
     valuable means  of disseminating  information, and the  Committee will
     host a  similar series in 1996.   In November, Committee  member Karen
     Henry,  together with  City Librarian  Musa Tryon,  went to  Ottawa to
     select art from the Canada Council Art Bank for Library Square.

          Members of the Committee during 1995 are listed in Appendix A.

                                            "Geoffrey Massey"
                                               CHAIR (1995)
                                        Special Advisory Committee
                                              on Public Arts



                                                        APPENDIX A




                         VANCOUVER PUBLIC ART COMMITTEE

                                  1995 MEMBERS



             Marian Bancroft
             Artist and teacher, Emily Carr Institute


             Michael Banwell
             Artist and teacher, Emily Carr Institute


             John (Jack) Clerkson
             Developer, Urban Development Institute Representative


             Jane Durante
             Landscape Architect, BCSLA Representative


             Karen Henry
             Director, Burnaby Art gallery


             Geoffrey Massey (chair)
             Architect, Member, AIBC


             Margaret Meikle
             Writer, CBC Radio Columnist


             George Pratt
             Artist


             Alan Twigg
             Writer, Publisher



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