2016 Art on the River Feature - Temporary Loan of Continuum Sculpture Copyright 2014
City of Dubuque Action Items # 9.
ITEM TITLE: 2016 Art on the River Feature - Temporary Loan of
"Continuum"
SUMMARY: City Manager recommending approval to use the
"Continuum," one of the City's first public art acquisitions,
as a featured work at this year's Art on the River exhibit.
SUGGESTED DISPOSITION: Suggested Disposition: Receive and File; Approve
ATTACHMENTS:
Description Type
2016 Art on the River Feature-MVM Memo City Manager Memo
Staff Memo Staff Memo
Photo of Continuum Supporting Documentation
Crane Rental Quote Supporting Documentation
Artists Statement Supporting Documentation
Artists Biography Supporting Documentation
THE CITY OF Dubuque
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Masterpiece on the Mississippi 2007-2012-2013
TO: The Honorable Mayor and City Council Members
FROM: Michael C. Van Milligen, City Manager
SUBJECT: Temporary Loan of Public Art Piece
DATE: May 12, 2016
Arts and Cultural Affairs Coordinator Debra Alleyne recommends City Council approval
to use the Continuum, one of the City's first public art acquisitions, as a featured work at
this year's Art on the River exhibit. The cost to move this art piece from its current
location at the Municipal Services Center and feature it as this year's Art on the River
Exhibit will be $2,140. The piece will be returned to its home at the Municipal Services
Center in one year for an additional cost of approximately $2,140. The current balance
for Art on the River has the funds to cover the installation and de-installation of this
piece.
I concur with the recommendation and respectfully request Mayor and City Council
approval.
Micliael C. Van Milligen
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Attachment
cc: Barry Lindahl, City Attorney
Cindy Steinhauser, Assistant City Manager
Teri Goodmann, Assistant City Manager
Debra Alleyne, Arts and Cultural Affairs Coordinator
Maurice Jones, Economic Development Director
Dubuque Economic Development Department
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Masterpiece on the Mississippi 200.2012.2013
TO: Maurice Jones, Economic Development Director
FROM: Debra Alleyne, Arts and Cultural Affairs Coordinator
SUBJECT: Temporary loan of Public Art piece
DATE: May 11th, 2016
INTRODUCTION
This memorandum serves as a recommendation for use of one of the city's first public
art acquisition as a featured work at this year's Art on the River exhibit.
BACKGROUND
The City of Dubuque has celebrated its 10th anniversary of Art on the River (AOTR) last
year and is now in its 11 th year. AOTR has been a successful public art mainstay of the
community. In this new decade of its existence, the program is ready to expand the
scope of what we can offer to the citizens. In 1973 an illustrious artist was
commissioned to create a masterpiece specifically for the City of Dubuque. This prolific
artist has exhibited all over the country and the world, most notably in Nagasaki Peace
Park in Nagasaki, Japan. This masterpiece is still in the possession of the City of
Dubuque and is currently exhibited at Municipal Services Center, Kerper Court.
DISCUSSION
The City of Dubuque possesses several works of art that are currently on display in
various locations across the city or in storage. Continuum is one of the most famous,
unique and relevant pieces that we have in our collection. This piece of art that was
created specifically for Dubuque by a world renowned artist Paul T. Granlund who has
created work, most notably for the Nagasaki Peace Park in Japan. Featuring this work
at the steel anniversary (11 th) of Art on the River would be a fitting symbol of Dubuque's
heritage and legacy as it takes strides to face the future.
The residents of this city have had so many new experiences and impressions of public
art over the last decade. The reintroduction of this piece of art would give a new
generation the opportunity to appreciate this piece of art as part of their cultural heritage
and as a historical and yet relevant artifact.
This year as we try to expand and redefine the scope of our public art program, Art on
the River, we believe that incorporating this prolific piece of public art would add interest
to the already popular and growing exhibit. We expect that featuring this piece of work,
through the right channels, can garner positive attention to our exhibit and assist us in
recruiting donors, patrons and art buyers for our selected artists and open up potential
opportunities for loaning our collection to other interested parties at a profit.
Because the city already owns this piece of art, the cost of the one year loan would be
significantly less than paying to feature a piece of similar size and significance. Based
on the quote provided by the same company that transported and installed of the work
at its current location, the cost of the acquiring this feature is as follows:
• Transport: $ 2140
Therefore to install and de-install the piece there is an estimated cost of$4280. The
current balance for Art on the River (CIP 7001853) is $72399.00.
The collective view of the Art on the River Committee and the Arts and Cultural Affairs
Advisory Commission, settled upon through several discussions of the expansion of the
Art on the River program is to:
• Establish the presentation of a different feature piece of art to the established Art
on The River program
• Loan this piece to the Art on the River program for the term of one (1) year as our
first feature piece with installation west of the Grand River Center.
• Return Continuum to its home on Kerper Court to make way for the next year's
feature piece.
RECOMMENDATIONS
In order to feature a large scale public art piece at low cost, we would like to be granted
permission to:
1 . Temporarily move the piece from its current location
2. Secure it for safety and temporary install
3. Install in time for the AOTR opening reception on June 22 or the launch of the
audio guide app
4. Return it to its original location in one year hence and reinstall it.
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CRANE RENTAL
& MACHINERY MOVING INC.
525 E 19th Street _ _ Office: (563) 583-5735
Dubuque, 1A 52001 — Fax: (563) 585-1686
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May 11, 2016
City Of Dubuque
Dubuque, Iowa 52001
Phone: 563-690-6059
Cell: 563-845-1726
Email: dalleyne@cityofdubuque.org
Attn: Debra
RE: Kerper/ Grand River Center
A-1 Crane Rental Proposes As Follows:
Rod Thought This Would Take Approximately 5 Hrs To Do. Also, A-1 Crane Is Not Responsible
For Damage To The Ground. He Said That The Last Time They Did This, It Was A Dirt Area.
40 Ton Crane $140.00 per hour/ port-to-port
40 Ton Crane $140.00 per hour/ port-to-port
Tractor/Trailer $120.00 per hour/ port-to-port
Rigger $100.00 per hour/ port-to-port
Thank you,
Rod Maas
Rod Maas
Manager
A-1 Crane Rental
Cell: 563-599-4596
Acceptance: Date:
If Accepted, Please sign and fax back to: 563-585-1686
*Above Prices Will Be Effective For 2 Months*
This work is the scale model for the 14 foot, 7,000 pound steel
sculpture that won the Five Flags Sculpture Competition sponsored
by the Dubuque Art Association and the City of Dubuque in 1973.
The winning sculpture arrived in Dubuque via barge from St. Paul,
Minnesota in 1975 to commemorate the nation's bicentennial
celebration and was originally placed on display in the Town Clock
Plaza at Fifth and Main Streets. In 2002 it was moved to a grassy
area outside the Dubuque Operations and Maintenance Facility on
Ninth Street. It finally found a permanent home on the lawn of the
Municipal Services Center on Kerper Court in 2005.
The sculpture is in the shape of a helix which is emblematic of life
forces and composed of two basic geometric figures — the cube and
the triangle. The cube is divided diagonally and the triangle
extension links the "opened" cubes. There are twenty square cube
faces, one for each decade of the bicentennial. The triangles refer
to America's three branches of government: Executive, Legislative,
and Judicial. The helix makes two full clockwise cycles signifying
the two centuries. According to the artist, the sculpture and the title
suggest democracy is a continuing process. If one views the work
from an end, it is possible to see a five-sided pentagon shape
which the artist incorporated to honor the five flags flown over
Dubuque. The shiny surfaces of the sculpture reflect surrounding
natural and architectural elements as well as the images and
movement of people —similar to the effect that artist Anish Kapoor
intended with his stainless steel sculpture Cloud Gate (a.k.a The
Bean) in Chicago's Millennium Park.
Paul T. Granlund was born on October 6, 1925 in Minneapolis,
Minnesota. He graduated from Gustavus Adolphus College in 1952,
received a MFA from Cranbrook Academy of Art in Michigan in
1954, and in that same year he was awarded a Fulbright fellowship
to study sculpture in Italy. In 1957, he received a Guggenheim
Foundation fellowship to continue his studies in Italy and in 1960 he
joined the faculty of the Minneapolis College of Art and Design. He
became the sculptor-in-residence at Gustavus in 1971 and
remained there until his retirement in 1996. His career spanned
more than 50 years and produced more than 650 works. He was a
nationally and internationally acclaimed sculptor best known for his
bronze figurative sculptures.
_ Paul T. Granlund, sculptor-in-residence at Gustavus
Adolphus College from 1971 until his retirement in 1996,
r t died on Sept. 15, 2003, in Mankato, Minnesota. In a creative
! It career spanning more than 50 years and more than 650
works, he had been recognized as a premier sculptor
throughout the United States and abroad. His figurative
bronze sculptures have been installed in public and private
settings from Australia to Italy to India, from Minneapolis to
Hong Kong.
Granlund was born on October 6, 1925, in Minneapolis, the son of the Rev.
Clarence and Naomi Granlund. A 1952 graduate of Gustavus, he went on to
receive an M.F.A. degree from the Cranbrook Academy of Art in Michigan in
1954 and in that same year was one of the three Americans awarded Fulbright
fellowships to study sculpture in Italy. A fellowship in creative sculpture from the
Guggenheim Foundation allowed him to return to Italy, where he stayed from
1957 to 1959. During the 1960s, he was on the faculty of the Minneapolis
College of Art and Design.
Granlund won several major competitions for his work, including the Minnesota
Governor's competition for a Vietnam War memorial, the Dubuque Five Flags
Plaza Bicentennial sculpture competition, and the "International Year of the
Adolescent" sculpture competition sponsored by the Wilson Center of Fairbault,
Minnesota. His work has been exhibited at more than 70 solo exhibitions in
galleries and museums in Minneapolis, New York, Chicago, St. Louis, San
Francisco, Los Angeles, and several other cities. In 1987 his sculpture of Charles
A. Lindbergh was installed at Le Bourget Field in Paris. Constellation Earth, an
eight-foot sphere celebrating the global family, was placed in Peace Park in
Nagasaki, Japan in 1992. Closer to home, castings of his sculptures have been
installed at the State Capitol and the World Trade Center in St. Paul, at the Mayo
Clinic in Rochester, at St. Olaf College in Northfield, at the Mayo House in
LeSueur, and at Imman uel-St.Joseph's Hospital in Mankato, as well as in a
number of churches in the region. More than 30 of his creations have been
placed on the Gustavus Adolphus College campus, including the friezes and
doors of Christ Chapel.
Granlund married Edna Spaeth in 1950 and they had four children, Gretchen,
Gregory, Jonathan, and Timothy.
From the Gustavus Adolphus College website: https Hgustavus edu/granIund/