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
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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.
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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.
Respectfully submitted,
Ellen Henkels
Chair of Arts and Cultural Affairs Advisory Commission
Attachment
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