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HERITAGE AND CULTURAL ARTS COMMISSION
AGENDA STATEMENT
MEETING DATE:November 13, 2003
SUBJECT: Senior Center Art Project
ATTACHMENTS: Photographs of model will be presented at meeting
RECOMMENDATION: 1. Receive presentation from Staff
2. Approve site visit to foundry.
• FINANCIAL STATEMENT: None
DESCRIPTION: One of the high priority goals for\the 2002-2003 set by City Council
was to commission Public Art for the new Senior Center. And as a result 1% was allocated for a Public
Art component as part of the Senior Center project.
In the Fiscal Year 2002-2003, a Request for Qualifications artists to submit their work. The Senior Center
Art Selection Committee reviewed the works from responding artists and selected five artists to develop
maquettes for the Senior Center. The maquettes were displayed at the Civic Center and the Senior Center
for public comment. The comment cards completed as a result of the display were provided to the
Committee and after careful thought and consideration the Committee chose Rowland Cheney's sculpture
as the finalist.
Mr. Cheney has completed the model and Staff has made a site visit to his studio and has approved the
model for completion. The model for the finished bronze sculpture is approximately eight feet by eight
feet utilizing images that were depicted in the maquette; the crane,the owl,two horses and the faces of the
ancients beneath the wings of the owl.
Staff is recommending that the Commission carpool to the foundry in Rocklin to tour the foundry and
witness a portion of the pouring of the actual sculpture.
It is the recommendation of Staff that the Heritage and Cultural Arts Commission take the following
action: 1)receive presentation from Staff; and 2) approve site visit to the foundry.
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COPIES TO: Rowland Cheney,artist
ITEM NO. 7.1
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