Pioneer Ways Arts

The City of Oak Harbor issued an RFP calling for artists to submit proposals for art to be placed on Pioneer Way since the street is being redeveloped. The deadline for the RFP was January 14, 2011. The City received 16 proposals. The City of Oak Harbor Arts Commission will review the proposals and make a recommendation to the City Council. This blog has been created to share information with the public on the proposals.

Project parameters

The RFP requested proposals for four possible locations along Pioneer Way. The general locations that are currently under consideration are:
1) City Beach Street and Pioneer Way - SE corner or general vicinity
2) Dock Street and Pioneer Way - NW corner or general vicinity
3) Ireland St and Pioneer Way
4) Midway Blvd and Pioneer way - NE corner or general vicinity.

Total budget = $80,000

The Art Commission considered the City Beach Street and the Midway Blvd location to be the entryways and therefore assigned prominence to these locations by allocating $30,000 to each of those locations.

The Art Commission may choose to change some of these location or allocate $$ based on the choice of artwork.

Monday, January 31, 2011

February 7, 2011 - Arts Commission meeting

The Arts Commission will meet again on February 7, 2011 to continue its review process on the proposals.  The meeting will be held at the Council Chambers at City Hall at 6pm.  Artists that made the qualifications after the first review have been invited to speak about their proposal.  This is a great opportunity for all that are interested to learn more about the proposed art and the artists that designed them.

The Arts Commission would like to welcome the public to its meetings and provide feedback on the proposals.  Other opportunities to provide input will also be scheduled.  They will be in the form of public meetings, open houses and opinion surveys with the utility bills.

This blog has been setup as a forum for public input.  Please feel free to leave comments on the proposals.
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Wednesday, January 26, 2011

First review of proposals

The Arts Commission met on January 25, 2011 and reviewed the sixteen proposals submitted for the Pioneer War Street Improvement project.  The proposals were reviewed against the established criteria.  The proposals that qualified to proceed further in the selection process are listed below:

Note: the links below are provided with information available to date.  Requests have been made to the qualified artists to provide a higher quality picture of the qualified proposals.  The links provided below are to pdf documents.  Some web browsers(Firefox, Safari) will open pdf documents directly and others(Explorer) may require you to save the file before opening.  Depending on the security settings of your computer, standard warning languages may be displayed.  The City will post images directly to the blog as soon as we get more information from the artists.


M. J. Anderson
Two Sails - Marble
Lunar Tides

Falkenhayn
Spring to Creek
Creek to River
River to Ocean

Gerber
Salmon Window

Hunt
In His Element

Lambert
Pedestal(s) - crab

Lindsay
Vortex
Clouds

McJunkin
Fish Out of Water

Marcell
“The Mermaid”

Nakamura
Twist

Pettelle
Skirting Waves
Sprouting Fish

Sue Taves, Lloyd Whannell & Woody Morris
Sea Life
Rainshower
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Friday, January 21, 2011

Criteria Established

The Arts Commission met on January 18, 2011 at noon to discuss the criteria that they would like to use to evaluate the proposals.  The established criteria can be viewed here.

The Arts Commission will meet on January 25, 2011 at 6pm and review all the proposals against the established criteria.
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