for try hurry where's the clicker maybe it's over here by you hey Chu uh let's see Chuck we need be able to show the PowerPoint yeah perfect and I think you can I think we're all ready right everybody ready okay so you can start recording whenever you want to okay welcome everyone uh we have a quorum so I'll call the meeting to order we have several uh votes in front of the Comm commission today and for each item I'll ask staff to provide details on the case and then if the applicant would like to provide additional detail or ask questions we can do that and also after that the public may wish to speak and we'll ask you to come up to the center Podium to use the microphone and state your name and address uh before you make your comments for the record uh our next item for the Commissioners is to receive the meeting minutes from December and since we're receiving not approving anybody can make a motion or vote so I would uh ask for a motion to receive the minutes and a second okay all in favor once the waiting is over there we go I'm pretty sure that passed even though it's not telling me it has yet so okay the next item uh Randy is going to introduce for us good morning everyone and thank you for attending the special meeting we have a few projects that need to advance to city council as quickly as possible and for that reason we did a special meeting instead of waiting till February to hear some of these projects so um first up we're going to have a delayed presentation from a really special project that was several years in the making started actually planning for this several years ago and that was the mural honorine Captain Riley Leroy Pitts at the Pitts Park Recreation Center and Jesse Warren of the Oklahoma mural Syndicate is going to come and present the presentation uh about that today so this was installed back in November Jesse will come up and he'll tell you all about it should be able just Advance let's goad and get you go thank you Jesse thank you Randy and thank you all um so just wanted to come and talk to you about uh um the completion of this project as Rand Randy mentioned it was several months or several years in the making um several months worth of work went into it this fall to um get it completed and um get it wrapped up and we had the um celebration and the unveiling back in November on Veterans Day and it was just a really great project and I'm really honored to be a part of it um so the project goal was to you know get this mural um painted up um um on the exterior of uh the Pitts Recreation Center at at Pitts Park um and um it like it was a long time leading up to this um until it was uh until we finally got the go-ahead the funding approved and um and got a team together um and um uh culminating with that mural unveiling back like I said on on November 11th um uh Captain pittz is really just a legendary figure and his story is truly amazing and although um you know he the park is there to honor him and has been there and part of an integral part of that Community for a long time um uh you know not enough people that I don't think knew really uh Captain P Pit's Legacy and um the story of his bravery and heroics um and so to be able to honor that and expand that story out to the community um I think was a really great thing for our city um we assembled a really good team this was a collaboration between the Oklahoma mural Syndicate and with love uh the with love project um and um uh we were able to meet with um uh Captain pitts's wife and his some of his family members to sort of make sure we were telling the story accurately and honoring um uh his legacy in a respectful Manner and it was really nice just to be able to um uh have them be a part of it Mrs pit still volunteers at the park regularly um so um still tied into that community and um you know just a a part of that ongoing um uh commitment to to that area and to the park um so it's really great honor for us um we brought in Jeremy Biggers um who is a nationally renowned um artist from Dallas Texas who has a um sort of a contemporary uh portrait style that we thought was really fitting um uh um to to execute this to really um take that Vision to um the the level that it needed to be for this artwork to to really pay tribute to Captain pits it's a very large mural as you see goes uh top to bottom the exterior of uh of this building on the west facing wall there um and because it was uh an older building that the city wants to you know preserve the exterior of it for historical purposes um it required us to um attach a paneling system so we weren't painting directly on the brick um uh was a pretty big Endeavor um and we actually had to become licensed sign installers in order to install this paneling system um but uh we together with the team um came up with a really effective system that's going to last um decades and uh protect the facade of the building and just really provided a really smooth Immaculate surface for the artist to work on um uh Jeremy Biggers um uh really created a a very Dynamic um mural um that really tells the story in a really dramatic way um and um we wanted to honor that by bringing out U members of the community and getting them involved with the unveiling um so to make aware of uh of it that was happening and offer an opportunity for um the community to meet Jeremy and hear some words about him about the project and kind of know all that went into it um so we um had event invited um Lots lot of people out um we had um a veterans group and members of the pits family came from all over the country it was really great um uh the event at the park um did cost us quite a bit more money than we had imagined it ended up costing about $450 just to gather some people there at the park um uh but as you can see it was a um the mural turned out really great was a really amazing story if you don't know much about Captain Pitts um uh there's some information there at the at Community Center um but um he's you know the first African-American to win the Medal of Honor purple heart and bronze star as well um uh and um sacrificed his life for for this nation and um just is a really has a really heroic story that I think Jeremy captured in really powerful imagery um that still kind of uh is is respectful um to him and his family um like I said we had that event it was really well well attended um lots of great energy people were really happy there were four generations of the pits family there they traveled in from all over the nation um and it was just um you know from kids to you know um grandparents um uh um out there and lots of local veterans came out too to show their support so really great Community event um JB said some really um powerful words and um Jeremy spoke a little bit about his inspiration as well and this is Mrs pittz um along with Captain pitts's son um there and they were both just thrilled to the gills with with the project and um that um his legacy will be you know um shared in that way um so it's really great to see and there you can see the the whole pits crew there with Jeremy um and uh Jeremy brought his kids up from Dallas so they got to see um you know their pops being a part of some project on a on a a really big scale um and our crew there um the funding for this project uh the majority of it came from the the the city as you guys probably all know um uh but due to the extreme cost of building such a big paneling system to to install onto the side of the building um we needed to bring in some additional sponsorship money to uh um to cover the cost of all that and still be able to uh pay the artist a respectable wage um uh Tinker Federal Credit Union um sponsored additional $5,000 um which was a real big help and got us across the Finish Line um you can kind of see there in some budget numbers kind of how it broke down um that initial um $14,500 um went a long way um but it didn't quite cover all of the cost um so uh that um sponsorship from T TFCU was really crucial um there was a lot of Labor that went into this as well as a lot of volunteer work this doesn't really reflect the total amount of work that went into this project but this is what we were able to um compensate for and pay for plus materials Etc um really huge project and really grateful thankful to be a part of it um so just wanted to thank you all and kind of give you guys a wrap up in case you hadn't been over there to check it out kind of let you know what all went into the project so thank you thank you we will can I say something about it real quick I'm sorry can I say something about it real sure sorry um one of one of the one of the um best parts of the miral was um just that the history of that Park growing up over there um you know it was a heavily wellknown like gang Park and um growing up that Park was for me I knew it was called pitch but I identified it with that game you know and so whenever I learned about Captain pits and uh myself and Jesse and Chris um started the With Love Project like this was was one of the the first things that we wanted to do was really like reclaim that uh park for the community and for the people around it and for Captain Pitts and his family and um and you know it took several years and even you know it was it was really important for Robbie Kenzo as well for us to do it and um Captain Pit's wife and his son you know they've been all over the country all over the world Germany uh you know for different things that his that that he was honored for and they said by far this was the the biggest and and the best event the the biggest honor that they have been able to be a part of and experience and so it was just a blessing just to be able to do that for the community and their family and um it's crazy how how like many how many roadblocks we felt like we had to get it done but um the team was very persistent and um you know it's like it's still you know just just a beacon of light for the east side so um it's it's amazing so that's all are there any other uh comments okay um I'd like to ask for a motion in a second to receive the report please and we vote which passed okay the next item is the dancers by Denise dang and Gabriel fredman uh Randy would you like to come up to the podium again thank you I realized that forgot to formally introduce myself so I'm Randy marks the program planner for Arts and Cultural Affairs and it's good to be here today and before we go on I want to thank JB and with love for the fabulous work that you did and helping to make that mural happen also thanks to Jesse who you just met Chris canal and Dylan Bradway all of Oklahoma mural Syndicate so uh these two organizations we're really very very fortunate as a city to have these organizations that are um working for the artist and working for the determent of the community so the uh next item item 3B is the dancers by Denise dang and Gabriel fredman Denise do you want to recuse yourself and if you want to this is a personal choice I'm not saying you should but if you want to recuse yourself you actually you actually can come down here and you can be available that I think is is uh you might you might want to answer you'd be able to as the artist you'd be able to answer questions about it if you came down here so yeah just come and sit down any the dancers by Denise dong and Gabriel fredman is a strong neighborhoods initiative Community project and uh the location is on Lynwood Boulevard where there are a number of words works that are being installed on the median of Lynwood Boulevard uh that is turning that into an art Corridor so for those of you that aren't familiar with that part of Oklahoma City lywood is essentially the continuation of Northwest 6th from Western and extends over to Virginia Avenue this was an old street car line and so the median is where the street cars used to run and and uh on that median is where the neighborhood association the metr Park neighborhood association working in conjunction with the strong neighborhoods initiative in the planning department is creating this art Corridor so I think our I think our slide is not matching this project or maybe I'm I'm sorry what was that this slide doesn't seem to be matching this project oh I I got ahead of myself I'm describing the next I'm I'm describing the next project okay this one is I'm sorry totally my mistake this is this is this is the okay I need to back up so I'm on the wrong I'm on the wrong one so if you this is actually Oliver Park what's going on here oh okay uh excuse me I got my I got my strong neighborhood initiative projects mixed up so this is not Metro Park this is Oliver Park neighborhood in Capitol Hill so now I think I'm back on script so yes I am I just I I jumped ahead on my on my script so sorry about that so um the locations of The Works will be in the ol Oliver Park neighborhood of Capitol Hill and including one location in Oliver Park itself and you can read here the artist's goal in translating dance to a three-dimensional public artwork is tied to the idea of staying true to the playful and expressive nature of dance reference referencing the imagery of folkloric dancers Denise created a series of quick expressive figurative dancer Sketchers sketches they are meant to mirror the movement addresses the passion of f Folklorico in a simplistic form and you can see the sketches that Denise created there the 's method includes Community involvement and collaboration in choosing the most appropriate models for the community Denise will create the sketches and Gabe will translate the sketches into into sculptures uh that are formed out of uh steel and here we see an example in three different locations so the finished Works will look much like that and I'm happy to take any questions you have any questions for Randy would you like to make any comments okay uh I'd ask then for a uh motion to in a second to uh recommend this project to city council and now um if you could vote there okay still says waiting but there we go the vote pass thank you I I'd just like to say that I think that these pieces are wonderfully playful and um expressive and they make me smile get out get out and Denise we can welcome you back to the front table now she actually she involed okay I'm sorry gotcha gotcha uh okay the next item is the biggest pink skateboard by Gabriel fredman and Randy again will present the item to us thank you the biggest pink skateboard is a sculpture by Gabriel fredman a name we just heard recently also strong neighborhoods initiative whereas uh the previous one was was the Oliver Park neighborhood on the southide this one is in fact on lennwood Boulevard and is the Metro Park uh neighborhood and the sculptures are being installed along the Lynwood Boulevard and you can see the works that have already been inst been installed that have come before you up to this time uh works by the bues by Paul Bagley Clint sh and uh then this one and the next one that you'll see after this uh to um continue this this uh project on between Western and Virginia the biggest pink skateboard is about the idea of unexpected success in the face of cultural adversity the skateboard deck sculpture is based on the first skateboard of gab's friend and and most famous skateboarder ever to come out of Oklahoma City Don WN the son of a Vietnamese Refugee family the sculpture is meant to reflect the uniqueness of Metropark neighborhood while referencing its little known historical importance in the Oklahoma City skateboard scene Gabe maintains that this skateboarder that you see just Serendip tiously showed up when he was uh shooting the um excuse me shooting the site uh out there so we're going to take him at his word uh there you there you see a rendering of the sculpture and this will the the sculpture will be made out of metal with paint directly applied to it a long lasting uh paint that will stand up to the weather and to the the sun I believe that is the last slide I have I'm going to come back to this and I I want to want to pass on something um that happened during the uh selection process uh when Gabe gave his presentation he said something really really profound and it was all the more profound for the fact that when I asked him about it later on he didn't even remember having said it U but he he was talking about his inspiration for this work and some other works in which he was he uh has been inspired was inspired to learn how to make jewelry so that he could do and he's he's done jewelry out little skateboards for friends of his anyway he was drawing a a he was drawing a connection between jewelry and public art and what he said was that jewelry is something small about something much larger and he said in a similar fashion public art is something bigger that is about something bigger still and he encapsulated in that something that I've been trying to articulate and that is just to uh go through the interpretation you you Adorn something you give jewelry to a person that you love and so the jewelry is almost always about beauty and love and public art in a similar fashion is about the same thing it's about creating Beauty for the community and it's about our love for the community and uh I was so happy that I happen to be there because um I don't normally go to the selection committee meetings for fourth strong neighborhood association but I was really happy that I heard Gabe say that and I wanted to pass that on to you with that I'm happy to take any questions go ahead is is this a concrete base underneath that metal platform is it yes okay uh so this I just can't tell the material from here it probably mentions it somewhere but so this that the model is made out of wood and so that's what you're you are seeing okay with texture there and it will be a concrete base there any other comments or questions and I'll make I'll make a comment about this and and uh the previous uh things we've talked about we have ver waivers on all all of the projects today too I won't I may not call that out but we do have uh ver waivers so just to let you know about that I had one comment um I just I don't know I'm just excited and um I think it's dope like to see somebody finally you know honor Don um and then it be gab is huge as a kid um I remember their crew being like like hu like a big deal you know I went to the I remember going to the movie premieres they would have I remember when the movie that Don was in came out um I can't remember what it was called but it was a big deal you know and just um I remember trying to you know skate on on the east side because of them you know what I mean and so um and Don is a really really nice dude and just to you know have um something that honors like him here is is dope so he's he deserves it so thank you okay um we have a motion and a second for um the the project to recommend it to city council and it has already passed the next item is uh Crossroads sculpture and again Randy will present this as well the crossroads sculpture by Morgan Robinson is again on Lynwood Boulevard for the metr park Sni so here you see the location this is going to be just immediately east of the location for the skateboard and again is filling out that in helping to fill out that entire median as an art corridor Crossroads alludes to the freedom of free flowing seemingly weightless forms while also incorporating the strength and longevity of stainless steel and a powder coated finish the sculpture sculptural form intertwines and grounds itself with two separate connecting pieces meant to represent the unity of family and extended community and the artist brought these ideas into a sculpture that turns and Embraces itself so here you see another view of the sculpture by Morgan and another one and just a comment this is the first sculpture by Morgan Robinson uh that this that the city itself has purchased you've seen some of his work before the mea Park neighborhood commission Morgan to do a really fantastic piece for the southeast corner of the park on on the the stage that they have there so Morgan is represented in the city collection but this is the first time that his work has been selected for um a piece in the city collection uh by the city itself so with that comment I'll take any questions are there any questions or or Randy or comments okay I'd ask for a motion in a second to recommend uh this project to city council and the vote which passed the next item on our agenda is cutline by Anton Morton and James Tapscott and Randy will present that as well cut line by is Land art by Anton Morton and James Tapscott for the new Hefner Golf Club house uh which is going which is located at 4491 South Blake Hefner Drive and there's a a map and you see on the peninsula in the upper right hand corner you see a little golf icon and it is right in that area a nice view of the lake and um uh where the where the new Clubhouse is going to go uh the clubhouse I believe goes the final design goes to Council in about uh just a little bit over a month and that's important because uh for a reason on explain in just a moment so there is the artist rendition of the architectural rendering of the back of the clubhouse and over to the right hand side you can see a red line with is like is a cut line in in the ground so this is a work of land art where the where the Earth itself is sculpted to help create the work of art this is the first work of this type that we have in the city art collection and uh Anton formerly known as Tony Morton and James T capscott who is an Australian artist a land artist teamed up on this particular concept uh here is another view and you can see the stainless steel sides of the cut that is made into the Earth the red is uh a red uh recycled class aggregate uh that will be in all of this will be installed on a concrete base and form with the Earth coming up and creating this this form um this project um had kind of an interesting for us for Arts and Cultural Affairs had an interesting wrinkle and that was we needed to start this as quickly as possible uh because we wanted we meaning The Architects and the golf commission wanted to be able to get the design of the artwork incorporated into the overall site design of the product project because it's a work of land art and so when the groundwork is being done some of the work can be done to actually the forming of of the Earth for the piece of art that is going to be created so we were on a very fast timeline but we ran first of all but then we ran into this we didn't have any money to pay anybody anything yet this is a bond project and the bonds won't be sold until May of this year so we literally had no money but the city has a method for dealing with situations like this and it's exactly the situation in which they work with the Architects The Architects on this project ahmm ahmm Architects uh are contracted through the Oklahoma City Municipal facilities Authority and if you've ever sat into in on a council meeting there's a point before the uh the main part of the agenda happens where the Council um they stopped the meeting as a council and then they immediately start a meeting as the Oklahoma City Municipal facilities Authority so the council members and the mayor create are the OC MFA but it's a different body and the OC MFA has money that they can loan us to start a project just like they loaned or they they actually contracted with the Architects so that the Architects could start work on this project that they had no money for yet then when the bonds are sold and there's money available then that money gets put back into the OC MFA fund and a new contract is written and we all go down the road uh just as we normally would that may be some Arcana that uh you didn't need to know but I thought it was at least somewhat interesting uh now that we have learned learn how to do this particular um method we'll use it again in the future uh whenever we're we are confronted with this so we were we were glad to learn something new from this process and you can see Tony uh Anton's statement here a subtle yet power powerful transformation of the s's topography connects the building to the landscape while paying homage to the shared philosophies of the clubhouse and the coures design the the clubhouse itself uh I I don't have a I don't have the architectural rendering uh in the PowerPoint but it is an outstanding work of architecture the base uh that is more that uh it appears to be Stone it is in fact Stone but it's not mortared Stone it it is Stone in gabian cages gaban is typically used or traditionally has been used in the landscape to hold to um hold soil back like on streaming Bank ments and situations like that uh maybe a lot longer ago than this but around 10 to 15 years ago was the first time that I saw it used architecturally very effectively in the um rail yard in Santa Fe uh so it's it has a very distinctive look the top part of the building is ctin steel and the building itself just looks like it's organically just forming right out of the earth and that's why it was thought that a work of land art would be most appropriate uh and uh commissioner Cooper was on on this selection committee so uh commissioner may have uh commissioner Cooper may have some other comments to make about it we'll look at some other illustrations here and there we are I'll be happy to take any questions any questions I have several questions um so how how does the artist picture the public interacting with the piece or is that maybe not how they're hoping the piece is appreciated they they want it to be hopefully appreciated from all angles um a really good view of it is if you're on the second floor of the new Clubhouse which is going to be a club entertainment area you can go out on you can actually see it while you're in the building but you can go out on a on a patio deck and look right down into it and that is a pretty dramatic view looking at it directly from the top there's a walkway that goes close to this you'll be able to step off the walkway into the landscape and actually walk up in there this the material that is being used stands up to road traffic so whatever foot traffic it gets it'll be able to stand up that and so people some people are going to find it just you know unbearably attractive and we want to walk up through the grass a little ways just to see what is going on up in there okay the oh sorry Allison in further explanation of that the artist anticipated and it was designed so that people C can and will walk up through it but in order to maybe entice them up there there was some discussion of putting the excuse me the art marker up next to the building so that there would be a reason to come up the walkway to see the art marker which would give more of an explanation of what it was okay I like that so um this is this is it's fun that we're doing some new and interesting things you know I I love like seeing uh the variety of pieces that get proposed now um since this has been kind of integrated into the site design of the project how does the landscape work in the landscape contractor work with the artist to make sure that kind of how the hill and all of the you know Green Space around it have the right texture for this piece because all of these images have a you know especially like two images ago where you're like seeing like natural Prairie elements mixed in and then it's just like this Cuts in that obviously we we want to make sure that that is maintained long term and not just mowed right up next to it you know we had actually had uh pretty extensive discussions of that leading up to the um selection and then also during the selection as well so this is the design is actually a work in progress as uh at this point and starting the artist early enough so that the work can be integrated into the overall design means that it's going to be more of a work in progress than maybe a lot of Works will be it's not going to be something that's just going to be placed you know after the fact and so the design being able to be incorporated into the landscape design uh will allow whoever the landscape contractor is to to help build accordingly to the shape that is proposed by the artist the location may change somewhat we don't anticipate it changing dramatically it's going to be well within the confines of the site but it may move a little bit one way or the other various aspects of it may change a little bit but the final result is going to be essentially what you're seeing in the artist illustration um so the artist at the time of the presentation was requesting that there be mo Gra grass right up next to the level and this is embedded into an area where the overall landscape is primarily or almost exclusively native grasses and other plants um but in the discussion a couple people on the committee suggested that it's going to work just as well if it's not mowed up there or not maybe maybe it's a slightly different material it might be buffalo grass instead of switch grass or something so the point of that was that maintenance around this is anticipated to be very very low there will be an occasional need to just use a weed eater to trim off some grasses that may bend out over it those can be easily blown out and raked away so we don't based upon what it was presented we don't anticipate any problems with that all with the long-term maintenance of of the work did that answer your question sufficiently uh I yeah yeah I just it's something that's a little bit different than you know it's more of a team effort to make sure that this this piece kind of finds the right spot on the side and long term and I'd also like to supplement ry's remarks with um a commentary the people on the uh jury who were representatives from the golf course and the golf Commission really like the design and they really seem to be committed to doing whatever extra work might be required in order to maintain this as a separate defined um uh piece of piece of art land they they like the idea of it and that they were willing to put in the extra work it might take in order to make sure it's well maintained they're maintaining okay if they're if they're maintaining greens at the golf course they're probably very skilled to be able to handle this so that's my thoughts the uh the yes so we have very talented landscape Crews uh employed by the by the city or actually by the golf trust uh that maintain these we did not want to add any extra burden to them especially in the in a situation where where the landscape is meant to be low maintenance uh so but what we found was that the artist was really willing to um consider moving away from some of their recommendations and seeing that in fact uh they could deal with a less manicured Edge along along the the work of art itself are there any more comments or there are so many exciting elements to this project I the process alone of of using the facility Authority so often um art has been an afterthought I mean in this case um it's integrated into the whole project when the office of Arts and Cultural Affairs started the the people on this horseshoe or rather the Arts Commission didn't even end the city as a whole had no idea what art we had and um even so back then the majority of the city's collection were cast bronzes this is a telling project and the metrication of our city and embracing public art and what it means to our community it's Land Art is not new it's new for our city and I think think this is telling of how um we're we as a city are embracing the spectrum of what's possible in public art congratulations to all involved and Randy I can't help but think that your background and experience prepared all of us for this happening today so I I I think it's telling in so many ways thank you well it didn't hurt uh commissioner and um this gives me an opport of saying something about ahmm a ahmm and Eric Schmidt in particular ahmm we're working with them also on the Family Justice Center and we'll be working with them on other projects in the future but in both the cases that we're working with Architects from this firm and uh I just got to say that they really stand out in the in their uh integration into the process they really go above and beyond all the Architects that we've worked with from ahmm so Eric in particular um has uh Anton made the made the comment that it was the best presentation that he had ever seen about a site given to the artist so um that is an example of the kind of thing that Eric has done really really engaged beyond what is necessary so we we appreciate that Eric in particular particular on this project and Dan and Jessica on the Family Justice uh they've gone above and beyond as well on that project so uh we're glad to see this you know um reflecting some of what uh um the commissioner just said um sometimes in the past the Architects weren't maybe quite so willing uh to engage fully in in art and that was true when I first came here and you know Robbie warned me about it we've seen a complete change from that and um and this is the result of that kind of thing happening so that's end of my editorial comment thank you any other comments then we'll be uh voting on a motion to recommend to the Oklahoma City Municipal facilities Authority and that passed the next item is a scope called halfway home by Graham carway and LeAndre is going to present for us today thank you good morning Commissioners my name is LeAndre ladore I'm a project manager for the office of Arts and Cultural Affairs um and what we have today as you mentioned is a sculpture entitled halfway home by artist Graham carway also known as Jay Graham this sculpture will be located at the Woodson Park Sports Complex that's um on the south side of Oklahoma City of the exact address is 3403 South May Avenue and also sits at the intersection of May Avenue and Southwest 29th Street and as you see there is a map for just visual reference and it will actually be on the east side of i44 just for clarification so um this AR is entitled halfway home and I think the reason the artist entitled it this is because um he mentioned during his proposal so that when he does his travels um he's from Jackson Mississippi and when he does his travels from the West Coast or up North Oklahoma City often serves as a halfway point for him to make his pit stop on the way back to Jackson Mississippi so he's actually quite familiar with Oklahoma City and he mentioned that he spends a lot of time here also think it's a pretty unique reference halfway home that could um tie in with baseball and softball as well which is one of the uses of this Sports Complex once it's completed uh so this sculpture is is pretty unique um and you know when when he designed this he he mentioned that he thought of things such as connectivity interaction um and enhancement one of the things he envisioned with this sculpture was something that would enhance the space and um allow those to to see and interact but not in a way that was too distracting from the initial purpose of of the sports complex but with that in mind he also wanted to be something that people would be able to interact with in addition to just stopping and and sort of having a time to look and view it so as you can see here this sculpture is going to be um about 14 ft tall right there where the arch is it would be 10 ft from from the ground it's inspired by Spanish style architecture so if you can see there the shingles that are designed on the on the Arches there is is what's derivative of that as well as the Arches another unique thing about this artwork is that it will have LED lights that will reflect from the ground and there will be solar power which will also run through the sculpture itself and the solar panel will sit at the top so it won't even be visible to anyone who would be passing by but the lights will will create um a very nice dramatic effect to this artwork and he also mentioned that he um has a a great light person so of this artwork will also have lights that will be colorful and they'll also have a dancing elements to them as well so this artwork itself is going to be $8,000 and he plans to install this artwork there right in front of the the main entrance of the sports complex so as you can see there um it have a great uh unique uh um opportunity for interaction I believe um when he mentioned this you know it made me think about when I was uh in Little League U we played football um at the end of every game if we won they would all the parents would sort of create this Arc where all the the children would come and run underneath it and that's sort of what this reminded me of um when he was talking about the interaction I think it also serves as a great photo op even in one of his proposal images he showed a picture of someone with a hammock tied around it so um that goes to show how structurally sound this artwork is it's going to be made from metal so it's going to withstand the test of time and all the elements that Oklahoma brings to it as well okay that's the last slide so I'm more than happy to answer any questions from the commission how will it be anchored under the ground it will be anchored onto a concrete base so each of them will have their own individual concrete bases that will go underneath the ground any any other comments or questions I really like this piece yeah great there's so many different kind of like when I first saw the name halfway home I almost thought that Park is always an indicator of coming home from the airport or going to the airport it's like ah I'm almost there you know I'm almost back to my own my own space and um so there's just so many different interpretations of it and and that's what I really love about it I see a future Arts commission photo pop sounds good that's a great Point okay we'll uh entertain a a motion or you Motion in a second to send uh this recommendation to the city council and that passed thank you leand thank you now we're going to go back to Randy again with uh a sculpture called celebration of Harding by G Patrick Riley so this particular work uh celebration of Harding um Harding Fine Arts Academy is undergoing a major Capital campaign and uh really refurbishing the building and grounds there on at 3333 North chartel Avenue uh Harding uh is uh really famous one of the very famous old high schools in Oklahoma City uh we're lucky that the building was saved and that uh there is still being used with a a charter school now um Patrick Riley there's a map showing the location in the Central Park neighborhood and an aial view that shows where the sculpture will be placed on the east side of the building at the front of the building and a site rendering and then images of the maette uh Patrick Riley is extremely well known for uh his for a variety of artwork U I think particularly well known for the mass that he has been making for the last several decades and this is continuing in that vein uh Patrick also was well known as uh an outstanding educator when I was in high school Patrick was the teacher at John Marshall and John Marshall I I went to Edmund John Marshall course in Oklahoma City Patrick ran a university level art program at John Marshall High School at that time and the I was astounded as a 17 18 year old looking at the work that came out that he got those artists to uh to create and uh he's in touch of course with many of them still to this day and they uh really look up to Pat so we're happy to have him as he just told me I don't think I'm letting out any secrets he said well I'm 82 years old and U still very very busy and there he is so uh glad to see Patrick still involved with uh the educational system and uh continuing uh to do uh to add to his wonderful body of work and any questions or comments in in case you're wondering the mascot at Harding uh Fine Arts is a Firehawk that's their athletic team so that's some of that imagery there of of a Firehawk thank you commissioner Cooper is there any other are any any other comments or questions Mr Riley did you want to address us and tell us anything yeah come join us a young 82 years old and uh I still make art and having a show at jrb Gallery in May I do want to say uh I was telling Randy when I arrived 10 or 12 years ago I was at the first presentation when we start talking about public art in Oklahoma City and I reviewed all the things you guys have done over the the past 10 or 12 years while I was playing with this presentation I want to thank you because you you have some really wonderful art in Oklahoma City now it's an amazing thing to see that happen and uh I do want to say that uh I was the resident artist at Harding and still am and uh the wings that I'm going to put on the sculpture are going to be a u set of wings that I've selected from one of the students that they designed so it'll be partially the sculpture will be a student project where the student will have the wing set because it's very similar to what I've designed here and so I think that's going to be exciting also the little pieces of cardboard you see on it are going I'm going to cast those in bronze and uh they're going to be relief sculptures of each decade of Harding's uh existence so we'll have those on the front of the base of the sculpture which would be fun to have student work that'll last another 50 to 100 years so I'm really excited about that and thank you guys so much for doing what you do thank you thank you that's great okay we will entertain a motion in a second to recommend this project to development services for a building permit and that passed okay we don't have a consent do document today is that correct Randy uh do we have any discussion or action on any reports from committees no okay uh Arts and Cultural Affairs update we do not have one of those today because Deborah was unable to join us uh for this meeting uh are there any comments from the commission members that you wish to talk about or report no okay Sor excuse me I'll just want to announce the philarmonic has a concert pop concert this weekend and it's Mar is that close yes that's right so if you don't have a ticket um I'm going to guess I don't know for certain that there might be some seats available uh I'll be there tonight awesome thank you for enlightening us Terry anything else okay is there any more public comment seeing no one jumping out of their seat I'm going to remind you that our next meeting is February 19th here and I will adjourn the meeting thanks everybody
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