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Art on the River 2018 Exhibit Recommendations Copyrighted June 18, 2018 City of Dubuque Consent Items # 20. ITEM TITLE: Art on the River 2018 Exhibit Recommendations SUMMARY: Arts and Cultural Advisory Commission recommending approval of the selections for the 2018 Art on the River exhibit. SUGGESTED DISPOSITION: Suggested Disposition: Receive and File; Approve ATTACHMENTS: Description Type Commission Letter Staff Memo 2018 Art on the River Exhibitions Selections Supporting Documentation THE��oF City of Dubuque DUB E Arts & Cultural Affairs Commission Masterpiece on the Mississippi Date: June 13�2018 The Honorable Mayor and City Council City of Dubuque 50 W.13�Street Dubuque, IA 52001 Dear Mayor and City Council Members The City is currently in the 13th year of Art on the River. This exhibition exhibits work for the period of one year at the Port of Dubuque. The existing 2017 exhibit, will remain on display until June-July 2017. Due to the change in funding sources to the budgeted process this year,the Art on the River acquisition process was postponed. As such the commission appointed an Art on the River subcommittee to assist in the preparation of the exhibition. The subcommittee formed included Commission Chair Ellen Henlcles,Secretary Gina Siegert and Mary Armstrong. The subcommittee used this opportunity to revise the program and processes associated. This year Arts and Cultural affairs coordinator and commission subcommittee made the following changes: • Art on the River: Driftless The exhibit this year is themed after the Driftless region. The Driftless Area refers to region in Minnesota, Wisconsin, northwestern Illinois, and northeastern Iowa of the American Midwest that was never glaciated. The theme called for artists, artwork that embodied the history,people,flora,fauna,geography,animals. conservation& sustainabiliry of the Driftless region. • Curator This year well known curator David Wells was contacted to help us host a curated invitational where artists of the region would be identified and invited to submit. He was appraised of the theme and connected with artists that could provide relevant work. David Wells is Director of the Edgewood College Art Gallery and an independent community-based curator in Madison,WI. Current projects include Art On the Rooftop, an annual outdoor sculpture exhibit at the Monona Terrace Community and Convention 50 W. 13th Srreet, Dubuyue, lowa 52001 � www.ciq�ofdubuque.orglartsandculrure THE��oF City of Dubuque DUB E Arts & Cultural Affairs Commission Masterpiece on the Mississippi Center (since 2014) and GLEAM: Art in a New Light,an annual light installation project developed with Olbrich Botanical Gardens (since 2015). • David founded Curators Conversations Wisconsin, serves on the Wisconsin Visual Arts Achievement Awards selection panel (Museum of Wisconsin Art) and recently juried the 2016 Nartheast Wisconsin Art Annual (Neville Public Museum,Green Bay), Wisconsin Arhuest 2017(L.E. Phillips Memorial Library, Eau Claire) and Belait F� Vicinity(Wright Art Museum,Beloit College, Beloit). • Non-conventional sculpture The curator was asked to source non- conventional types of sculpture to include land art, light-based art,floating art,kinetic art and nonconventional art and large scale • Reception The committee wanted to try a different format for the opening reception to make it more accessible. To that end the reception will be held outdoors and local food vendors would be invited to provide refreshment along the Riverwalk. The Marshallese community are also being specifically featured because of their particular connection to the Driftless region. The curator was still asked to select the pieces according to the standard guidelines stipulated by the commission: • Artists can submit up to three works however a separate application form must be completed for each entry. • Sculpture must be original. • Sculpture must be suitable for outdoor display in adverse weather conditions-high winds,rain, intense heat, snow and freezing temperatures. • Sculptures will be located in high traffic areas with an unsupervised audience and must be soundly and professionally constructed of durable and safe components and require no maintenance during the display period. • Works must be appropriate for viewing by residents and visitors of all ages. • A work must be able to be installed on available sites, some in grassy areas,both sloping and flat, and on a limited number of concrete bases. 50 W. 13th Srreet, Dubuyue, lowa 52001 � www.ciq�ofdubuque.orglartsandculrure THE��oF City of Dubuque DUB E Arts & Cultural Affairs Commission Masterpiece on the Mississippi The curator selected 7 works and two altemates. This link provides information on each of the works of sculpture including the title, artist, and images of each work� or renderings of the proposed sculpture. The selections,in no particular order are: 1. Stephanie Sailar"Nature's QuinteY' 2. Sam Spicza"Nexus" 3. Bilhenery Wallcer"Ribbon Song" 4. Jeremy Rudd"Rogue: Sprung" 5. Martha Glowacki"Stargazing ring with Orion and Taurus" 6. Kevin Burnette"Mobi" (kinetic sculpture) 7. John Bannon"Universe" (Light based,kinetic) The Arts and Cultural Affairs Coordinator and the Arts and Cultural Affairs Advisory Commission recommends that the City Council accepts the selections for the Art on the River 2018. 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