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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 UBE I erica .i 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 MCVM:jh 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 THE CITY OF 50 West 13th Street AII-AwftlitY Dubuque,Iowa 52001-4864 DUB3 &kE1 I Office(563)589-4393 TTY(563)690-6678 ® http://www.cityofdubuque.org 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. ,4-1 CRANE RENTAL & MACHINERY MOVING INC. 525 E 19th Street _ _ Office: (563) 583-5735 Dubuque, 1A 52001 — Fax: (563) 585-1686 c " 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/