HomeMy WebLinkAboutSeptember 9, 2024 AIPP Agenda1.Call to Order
2.Citizen Participation
3.Main Agenda
3.1 Approval of August 5, 2024 Board meeting minutes.
3.2 Update installation logistics for Squire Broel's commissioned
sculpture anticipated October 2024. (10 mins)
3.3 Review works and sites for donation consideration from the
collection of Vicki and Kent Logan. (20 mins)
3.4 Review Artist in Residence Strategic Plan Document - Phase 1
Vision. (15 mins)
3.5 Update on AIR Studio construction, fundraising initiatives, and
AIR Advisory Committee - Greg Hall Director of Public Works.
(20 mins)
3.6 Approval of 18th Annual Winterfest Draft Request for
Proposals. (5 mins)
4.Coordinator Updates
5.Adjournment
ART IN PUBLIC PLACES MEETING
Agenda
Vail Town Council Chambers
Via Zoom Webinar: https://vail.zoom.us/j/84499746052
8:30 AM, September 9, 2024
August 5, 2024 Minutes.pdf
Broel_Vail Sculpture Base Page.pdf
Houseago.Rattlesnake.Installation.pdf
Houseago_cat - Copy.pdf
Wedel.Interior.VPL.pdf
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Art in Public Places Board Special Meeting Minutes
Wednesday, August 5, 2024
AIPP Board members present: Tracy Gordon, Susanne Graf, Kathy Langenwalter, Courtney St. John,
Lindsea Stowe
Others present: Molly Eppard - AIPP Coordinator
1. Call to Order
2. No citizen Participation
3. Main Agenda
3.1 Approval of July 1 & July 24 meeting minutes.
July 1, 2024 Minutes.pdf
July 24 2024 Minutes.pdf
3.2 Review updated version AIR Strategic Plan phase 1.
• Molly will re-work the phase 2 slide, so it reads better within the plan.
• We will examine the scope of the calendar section as well.
• Lindsea discusses the meeting agenda for the invited AIR Advisory Committee.
o Focus will be on AIR program development and fundraising initiatives.
o Jennifer Marx and Ramsey Cotter will be attending. Sarah Johnson has a
schedule conflict.
3.3 Review and prioritize objectives and goals for AIPP 5-year Strategic Plan.
• The Board reviews TOV property maps to identify and prioritize sites for public art
installations.
• The gallery hanging system has been installed in Council Chambers for future
interior exhibits (local photographers, etc…)
• The Board meets on-site to view possible art locations from the Vail Public Library to
Lionshead.
• Board agrees on the location for Squire Broel’s commissioned sculpture (west of Vail
Public Library entrance – image below).
• Molly will compile images of potential interior and exterior locations as reference for
future public art placement.
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4. Coordinator Updates
o Board appreciation reception at Hot Summer Nights on Aug 27.
o Community Development meeting about the Town Hall phase of Civic Area Master Plan on Aug 7.
o Holy Cross has given approval for Erin Connelly’s, Imagination Station call finalist, proposal
(below) to be painted on the utility box west of the Vail Public Library. Molly will inform her of this
opportunity.
5. Adjournment
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18” square
Holes - 15” center to center
Stainless steel base to be mounted to concrete
base - sub grade below frost zone.
Stainless plate secured to concrete with stainless
steel j-bolts, drop-in anchors or stainless steel all
thread and epoxy. (At the discretion and oversight
of Town of Vail.)squire@broelstudio.com
www.broelstudio.com
Squire broel |Broel Studi o,Inc.
ArtistinResidence
ArtinPublicPlaces
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Logan art donation & potential installation at Ford Park
Thomas Houseago (INV # 1283)
Rattlesnake Figure, 2011
Bronze
128 ¾ x 29 x 29 in
ED 2/2
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With each of Thomas Houseago’s enigmatic works, the artist breathes new life into sculpture by
injecting it with elements of craft and folk art, the natural and supernatural world, and the
masters of modern art. “Rattlesnake Figure” was inspired by the venomous snakes that the
artist found outside his home in the Tujunga area of Los Angeles CA. Neither male nor female,
the figure strikes a seductive, alluring pose with one arm draped over its head as if reclining, yet
its posture is proud and upright. A large eye etched into the figure's face looks out at the viewer
blankly, whilst the rest of the body is turned away, viewable only in profile. The sculpture retains
the coarsely hewn form of the original work from which it was cast, carved with a chainsaw from
a massive 12-foot-high block of redwood. Houseago has spoken of the enjoyment he takes in
giving form to a solid slab, an age-old practice for artists working in wood or marble. While the
sculpture's totemic form and rough edges recall folk art, the work's fractured multitude of
viewpoints and angular distortions speaks to Houseago's fascination with the direct carving of
Brancusi, German Expressionism, early Cubism and the art of Picasso.
Exhibitions of the artist’s work have been held at Stedelijk Museum Bureau, Amsterdam;
Stedelijk Museum voor Actuele Kunst, Ghent, Belgium; Modern Institute, Glasgow;
Contemporary Fine Arts, Berlin; Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles; Modern Art Oxford,
England; Ashmolean Museum, Oxford, England; Museum Abteiberg, Mönchengladbach,
Germany; Centre International d’Art et du Paysage de l’Ile de Vassivière, Beaumont-du-Lac,
France; Rennie Museum, Vancouver, Canada; Inverleith House, Edinburgh, Scotland; Palazzo
Grassi, Venice; Sainsbury Centre for Visual Arts, Norwich, England; Galleria Borghese, Rome;
Storm King Art Center, Cornwall, New York; Gemeentemuseum Den Haag, Netherlands;
Académie Conti, Vosne-Romanée, France; Royal Academy, London; Musée d’Art Moderne de
la Ville de Paris; and the Royal Museums of Fine Arts of Belgium, Brussels. His work was
included in the 2010 Whitney Biennial and he has collaborated with the New York Public Art
Fund on two public sculptures. Houseago lives and works in Malibu, California.
Potential Location in Ford Park Lower Bench
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THOMAS HOUSEAGO
CAT I, 2012
BRONZE
96 ½ x 44 x 30 inches
3/3 – 2 APs
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Logan art donation & potential interior location at Vail Public Library
Matt Wedel
Flower Tree, 2013
Ceramic
72 x 42 x 52
Born in Palisade, Colorado, Matt Wedel currently lives and works in Athens, Ohio. He earned his Bachelor of
Fine Arts at The School of the Art Institute of Chicago, and then obtained a Master's degree in Ceramics from
California State University.
Artist Statement
I begin as if rules are non-existent; I play. Not frivolously or unfocused, but I use this weightless format to
navigate the nomadic direction my mind chooses to follow. I can never hold my breath for things to go right; I
can only continue forward watchful as to what unfolds. Throughout much of my childhood I have been exposed
to clay. Merged with my time playing in the alfalfa fields that surrounded my father’s pottery studio are
memories of watching him give shape to this formless material. These memories of childhood and connection
to the creative process have become a reservoir of influence to what inspires me to make. In addition to this, I
have grown fond of the precarious act involved in escorting such fragile objects through this process of
indefinite change.
Using landscape as a platform to begin working, I approach creating as if the possibilities were limitless,
weightless, and immediate. I work amongst this landscape both from my imagination as well as from historical
influences. It is a system set up to feed the vocabulary I have to create while allowing me to play with the
vocabulary I know. I never doubt my ideas as they arise but follow them with trust and utter intrigue helping
them along to exist amongst this platform. In this manner I continuously learn, play and teach myself as an
artist.
https://www.mattwedel.com/new-page-45
https://lalouver.com/html/gallery-history-images/artist-biographies/matt-wedel-biography.pdf
https://lalouver.com/html/gallery-history-images/artist-biographies/matt-wedel-bibliography.pdf
• A small platform would be made to elevate the sculpture to protect it from vacuum cleaners.
• It would be the first ceramic work in the public art collection.
• The artist just received Grand Prize at the Gyeonggi Ceramics Biennale and also has strong ties to
Anderson Ranch in Snowmass.
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