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Recommendation to authorize City Manager to execute a right-of-entry permit for the Public Corporation for the Arts, doing business as Arts Council for Long Beach, to access Loma Vista Park, located at
1173 Loma Vista Drive, for the construction of a public art exhibit for a term of five months. (District 1)
DISCUSSION
The Public Corporation for the Arts, doing business as Arts Council for Long Beach (Arts Council), administers the Eye on Design Public Art and Education Program (EOD) whose goal is to educate third graders about civic design and the public art process. The Arts Council selects Accomplished public artists to work with local elementary school students for the selection of potential public art sites and the development of an art concept for the site. Upon completion, the artist and students present their proposal to a panel of professionals for the final selection.
The Arts Council has secured all-inclusive grant funding in the amount of $40,000 from the Miller Foundation to implement an EOD project at Loma Vista Park (Loma Vista). Steve Elcker, the artist who developed the existing tiled park bench at Loma Vista, worked with a third grade class from Thomas A. Edison Elementary School to conceive of a design that would display the solar system. The design is a series of orbits, with one planet per orbit. The orbits will be brightly colored surface areas, with a different color for each orbit. The colors will be created with the resilient surfacing material that is used in playground construction. Each planet will be constructed of cast concrete and ceramic tile, serving as a one-person settee. Thus, as well as being colorful, it will invite children to run, jump, and tumble on a familiar play material. An artist rendering of the solar system is attached (Attachment A).
Loma Vista is a mini-park the City acquired in 2002, from the Los Angeles County Sanitation District. The site is very small, only 0.14 acres, and is encumbered with the ...
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