ARTiculate 4 with Special Guest
From Mollie Atkinson:
This time ARTiculate is recording from the fabulous sculpture studio of Ken Payne, located in the Larkin industrial building on Seneca Street. We are very fortunate to bring to you as guests today: David Granville, former Buffalo Commissioner of the Arts, and Celeste Lawson, Director of the Buffalo and Erie County Arts Council, and board member for the Arts Commission. We also have emerging artist-musician Nick McLaughlin to share his insight as well.
This podcast is in two parts, it's so long because it was a great discussion, truly engaging topics were covered: In this podcast you will hear us talk about the position of the Arts Commission now that cutbacks in the city
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steph
Celeste says that 1% of public project monies 'should' go to public artwork. Is this mandatory? Is it not happening? Is someone monitoring whether this is happening or not? I know that Roswell is on top of this, but what about the new buildings that have already been built. We want more public art. Can you discuss the public art park that will be located in front of the new Burchfield-Penney? I think having David and Celeste as guests was really terrific.
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mollie a
steph -
yes it is mandatory. the 1% for art considers public art in these cases as a developer would consider any necessary aspect - such as plumbing, electrical etc.
right now there is no arts commissioner - but there is the arts commission board on which celeste sits, among i believe a group of 15 other volunteers. these volunteers still exist and still are our city's arts advocates, but there is no one in there on a regular basis to monitor day to day happenings. i worry too whether the people who do build public funded buildings can sidestep or 'fudge' the rules as there is no regular watchdog monitoring these things.
thanks for your great questions and please stay 'tuned,' we are already putting together our next podcast which will address the recent bpac controversy and we do ask about the 1%.
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peter
Can you tell me who put the new artwork down in Lasalle Park along the river? Also down by the lighthouse by the observation deck? Every once in a while a piece pops up with no explanation as to who was behind it!
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Rosaleen Marion
Peter, you may be referring to the Art Across Borders project that you can read about here: www.artscouncilbuffalo.org/ArtAcrossBorders/home.html
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arch
I know its off topic but can BR do a slideshow of Ken Paynes building? Does Nick have any music online?
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