HomeMy WebLinkAboutReso 2020-3123RESOLUTION NO. 2020 - -6(7'S
A RESOLUTION OF THE CITY COMMISSION OF THE CITY OF SUNNY
ISLES BEACH, FLORIDA, ADOPTING THE PUBLIC ART PROGRAM AND
STRATEGIC PLAN, AS RECOMMENDED BY THE PUBLIC ARTS
ADVISORY COMMITTEE, ATTACHED HERETO AS EXHIBIT "A";
AUTHORIZING THE CITY MANAGER TO DO ALL THINGS NECESSARY
TO EFFECTUATE THE TERMS OF THIS RESOLUTION; PROVIDING FOR
AN EFFECTIVE DATE.
WHEREAS, on October 19, 2017 via Resolution No. 2017-2750, the City Commission
created the Public Arts Advisory Committee ("PAAC") tasked with advising the Commission on
matters of Public Art based on guidelines codified in Chapter 104 - Works of Art in Public Places,
of the Code of Ordinance of the City of Sunny Isles Beach ("City"); and
WHEREAS, on July 20, 2020, the PAAC approved for recommendation to this Commission
the Public Art Program ("Art Program"); and
WHEREAS, the Art Program documents a defined vision and criteria used in the selection
of public art, whether it be via commissioning, acquisition, donation, or deaccessioning; and
WHEREAS, the Art Program also includes an overall Strategic Plan designed to be a road
map for the City for years to come; and
WHEREAS, the City Commission now wishes to accept the recommendation of the PAAC
and adopt the Art Program detailing the process and procedure used in the selection of public art and
the Strategic Plan for the implementation of public art in the City, attached hereto as Exhibit "A".
NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED BY THE CITY COMMISSION OF THE
CITY OF SUNNY ISLES BEACH, AS FOLLOWS:
Section 1. Adopting of Art in Public Places Program. The City Commission hereby adopts the
Public Art Program, inclusive of the Strategic Plan contained therein, as recommended by the Public
Arts Advisory Committee, attached hereto as Exhibit "A".
Section 2. Authorization of City Manager. The City Manager is hereby authorized to do all
things necessary to effectuate the terms of this Resolution.
Section 3. Effective Date. This Resolution shall become effective upon adoption.
PASSED AND ADOPTED this 15th d
George H. Scholl, Mayor
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MauriNo Betatur, CMC, City Clerk
APPROVED AS TO FORM
4tND,,LEGA'L SIOWFICIENCY:
Edward A. Dion, City Attorney
Moved by: COMMICISIOAQ1 V C e-uf0. Seconded by �MM6940yW �&OA
Vote:
Mayor Scholl
Vice Mayor Svechin
Commissioner Goldman
Commissioner Lama
Commissioner Viscarra
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3. 18070 Collins Avenue
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MEMORANDUM
TO: The Honorable Mayor and City Commission
VIA: Christopher J. Russo, City Manager
FROM: Lynn M. Dannheisser, Cultural Master Plan Consultant
DATE: 10/15/2020
RE: Adopting the Public Art Program as Recommended by
the Public Arts Advisory Committee
RECOMMENDATION:
This Resolution is presented for your consideration.
REASONS:
Please see the attached memorandum.
ATTACHMENTS:
Description
Memorandum
Resolution
Art Program and Strategic Plan
Item Number: 10.E.
LYNN A
DANNHEISSER
MEMORANDUM
TO: George "Bu.&" Scholl, Mayor
LArisA SvOchin, Vice Mayor
Dana Goldman, Commissioner
Jennifer Viscarra, Comnuissioner.
Alex Lama, Commissioner
cc: Christopher J. Russo, City Manager
Ed Dion, City Attorney
Susan Simpson, Assisfarit City Manager
SIB PAAC
.PV,OM.:, Lynn. M.DaAriheisser,GMP Consultant
DATE; October 17, 2020
RE•: Public Art Program & Strategic Plan
Q4 July 20, 2020, the I PAAC approved for recommendation to this Commission the Art in
,public pidoeg.progtain. Inaddition to documenting the vision and mission of this Program, this,
planning rief history of the. City's 04 and
Program documents the pl rocess inrluding a b
architecture, the Co s.,si, on"s
. defined vision and mission and criteria used in selection,.-.
commission, acquisition; donation, deiacc'essiondng, 4414P maintenance and conservation of
public art. It will also serve to assist the. City in the securing outside funding i for future projects,
when sought.
Special note. should be given to the Appendic-es wh.i.,ch define -everyone's roles and
responsibilities in the:purst0f*notablePtblicArProgram,(see Appondii "A'), creation of an
outline of
f potelitial.areas that could benefit fiotn public art, now and in the future. (These. areas
,arelabbl-led Creative Zoneg=:see the nutp in Appendix OB").
Finally, the Program contains an overall Strategic Plan (pp. 24-83) including a five- year
Work Plan - current 1) underway. for _of rqJdctsund' . ay.Itisdesigiiedt be aroadmap for the City over the
"next decade or more. It does portend to. be exhaustive in :terms of -projects that maybe
developed. it does, however, structure within
which to develop those projects,
The PAAC recommends unanimously theComrhls'46ft officially adopt the, '. hed
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public Art Program detailing process and procedure as well as the, guiding'Strategic P-100 for the.
implementation of the public art portion of the Cultural Master Plan.
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LYNN M. DANNHEISSER, LLC
3152 Gifford Lane - Miami, Florida 33133 - Phone: 305-441-0222 - Fax: 305-397-0555 - Email: lynn@da,nnhei5sL-r-law.com
ART IN PUBLIC PLACES PROGRAM
SUNNY ISLES BEACH
Vision:
The City of Sunny Isles Beach Public Art Program will enrich civic life and
forge a greater sense of community, give voice to the creative spirit of its
citizens, and celebrate the City's unique landscape and public spaces.
Mission
The Public Art Program will focus on the following core functions:
• Catalyze projects and creative zones that show how public art can
connect to the City's creative spirit and engage citizens.
• Demonstrate how public art can project a broader image of the City of
Sunny Isles Beach enhancing existing focal points both to create
community and a sense of place.
• Demonstrate to the general public that public art can have a visible
and immediate impact on the cityscape.
• Review projects initiated by developers.
• Review projects, gifts and loans proposed for City property.
• Stimulate public awareness of and conversation about public art in
general.
• Review and manage the existing collection (maintenance,
conservation).
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The City views its public art program as multi -faceted. It has been laying
the groundwork for this Program over the last three years and the concept
of a wide variety of acceptable creative expression has also evolved. The
City envisions its Public Art Program to not just be about sculpture and
traditional art installations but as an artistic expression of a creative,
innovative community which could include public gardens, pop-up
performances to any number of projects that could create civic dialogue.
As endless as there are ways for community to express itself, this is as
open as the city will be to utilize public (and to the extent of their
willingness to participate, private) spaces- from parks, local streets and
pedestrian walkways, to other public infrastructure with opportunities for
lighting, sound, architecture and engineering as well as community art
festivals and performances, story -telling and other experiential and
interactive art forms. The City's program will always give a respectful nod
to its history while looking forward to new developing concepts in art.
Since before Sunny Isles Beach actually became a city, the
area has been the home to some of the most unique and
architecture in South Florida. Harvey Baker Graves (1855-
1936) made his first visit to South Florida in 1905 and came
back in 1920 to purchase 2,841 acres of land of which 1,912
acres that were known as Sunny Isles- in the northern end of
what would become Miami Beach. While he would not live
through the boom bust cycle of the 20's and 30's, the area
started its first real development as a tourist destination in the
1950s and 60's. This saw the advent of such hotels as the
Dunes, the Golden Strand Thunder Bird, the Tahiti, the
Castaways, the Ocean Palm and the Sahara, with their
assorted life size sculptures of Bedouins and camels, horse and
biggies and other notable MiMo style "kitsch", housing
oversized signs that when lit, turned night into day in these
areas. These were designed by such architects of renown as
Carlos Schoeppl, Melvin Grossman and Norman Giller,
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This oceanfront strip with its famous Fishing Pier became
known as Motel Row, not duplicated anywhere else. Within —
years of its incorporation into Sunny Isles Beach, the City
committed to its history and wanting to evolve a program of
public art, adopted its AIPP Ordinance and through some of the
most creative land development regulations in the State of
Florida began to see a renaissance of art and architecture.
Notable architects such as Robert Swerdlow, Carlos Ott, Kobi
Karp, Chad Oppenheim and Seiger-Suarez created one of the
most unique skylines in South Florida. In addition, the City is
now home to such notable public art contributed by each
development or in the City's own inventory including Seo,
Young-Deok, Muse, Valeria Yamamoto Sculptures, Rein
Treifeldt's Caterpillar's Dream Butterfly, David and Felix Fisher
sculpture, The Family, Blue Butterfly by Manolo Valdes, and
Pablo Atchugarry's Dreaming of the Future; Rising Horizons by
Rafael Barrios.
With the completion of the City's Cultural Master Plan prepared by
global consultants AEA ("CMP"), and the formation of the Public Arts
Advisory Committee, the City sees the opportunity to build on its
unique history and not only build its collection of art in public places
but to do creative place making all throughout the City and engage its
multi -cultural citizenry in forward -thinking and exciting ways.
The City's program began in 1997 with its Art in Public Places
Ordinance which requires the city (1 '/2 % of construction of new
governmental buildings) or private developers (1 % up to $500,000 of
construction costs of a work of art of equal value) to contribute to a public
art fund.'
1 Ordinance as amended is attached.
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With the completion of the CMP, the City retained a cultural master
plan consultant to implement the Plan in stages. The next action was to
issue a call to community residents with substantive qualifications in the
areas of art, art history, design and architecture. From a comprehensive
review process, the Commission appointed a five (5) member advisory
committee known as the Public Art Advisory Committee ("PAAC").' The
PAAC is a recommending body for the City's Public Art Program. Among
other things, it makes recommendation for the selection or approval of all
public art for both private development and public venues. Specific
recommendations for use and expenditure of the Public Art Fund are made
to the Commission by this advisory committee. The PAAC also makes
recommendations on overall public art policy and programming,
methodology and selection of artwork (through acquisition or commission)
to be placed on City -owned property, public arts projects and programs
(temporary or permanent) and the most advantageous locations, and other
artistic -related tasks determined by the City Commission or City Manager.
Roles and Responsibilities for the Public Art Program are outlined in
Appendix "A".
After a joint workshop of the City Commission and the PARC, the
PAAC developed an overall governing philosophy and published criteria
and guidelines for the Public Art Program. The PAAC has reviewed
numerous applications by developers for public art on private property after
hearing the vision of many developers for specific art on their properties
and given feedback and guidance about placement in order meet the City's
criteria for same. Once this was accomplished, the PAAC made its
recommendations to the City Commission on each application.
The PAAC has developed a series of potential projects, a budget for
expenditure of funds from the public art fund, and has worked on the
development of a working plan in process the PAAC has termed a Playbill,
which now forms the basis of the Five -Year Work Plan associated with this
Program. This work has included input from the City Manager's office, the
Planning & Zoning Department, and the Cultural Master Plan Consultant
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guiding the development of the Plan by PAAC using the services of a public
art curator, art appraiser and all other consultants, when required.
This Master Plan will be presented to the Commission as a
comprehensive plan for their formal adoption at a public hearing with public
input before it goes into effect.
The City is a built (albeit re -developing) environment on 1.5 square
miles of a barrier island located between the ocean and the
Intracoastal. Collins Avenue runs the City south to north along the
Ocean and North Bay Road intermittently runs the City south to north
along the Intracoastal Waterway. It has eleven (11) state of the art
public parks, beach access points, and other smaller spaces
which represent opportunities for public art and community bridge -
building.
The Cultural Master Plan sets forth a vision for arts and culture:
• Arts and cultural programming [to] enhance Sunny Isles Beach as a
livable, family, -friendly, vibrant and creative community
• Through a high-quality, accessible, year-round portfolio of attractive
cultural Programs [to] expand participation in the arts across diverse
residents, improving quality of life in our City
• Arts and cultural programming [to] animate and celebrate our
unique landscape and public spaces, enhance our city's profile, and
forge stronger bonds within our community."
The PAAC and this Plan seeks to refine, define, and implement the
arts and creative -place making aspect of this vision.
The overall goals identified by the PAAC are as follows:
• Unifying pedestrian movements and pathways throughout the
City.
• Employing existing, and improving and multiplying gathering
space and parks to create a family -friendly, thriving community.
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• Improvements and enhancements to existing focal points to
create an attractive community and a sense of place.
Demonstrate to the general public that public art can have a
visible and immediate impact on the cityscape.
Acknowledging the history of the area known as Sunny Isles and how it has
evolved into a highly urban contemporary small city as well as to the City's
declared desire to promote a family -friendly vibrant, creative environment
with an eye toward community bridge -building, the PAAC recognizes a
complex interaction among a built -out the environment, diversity of
backgrounds and the promotion of playful human experience and increased
civic involvement.
For these reasons, the City will consider a host of experimental, interactive
and other creative experiences, inviting public art initiatives of any kind and
nature (traditional or otherwise), that would represent a wise investment of
the City's resources.3
Recommendations for the selection of Public Art will be based on the
following guidelines, as they may be amended from time to time.
What artistic merit does the art have and how is this accomplished? Is
there an inherent quality and sense of excellence?
How does the project foster the overall goals of the Cultural Master
Plan? Does it accomplish the purpose of this Program? Does it interpret
the City's civic and architectural traditions with a contemporary voice?
Relevance and overall positive impact of the Public Art under
consideration to the City, including its values, culture, and people.
Consideration will be given to whether it has historical value, addresses
s This will not be to the exclusion of tradition monuments or statuary but it may encompass more innovative
concepts, projects and programs.
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a social or environmental issue, or addresses the community as a whole
or a specific interest in this culturally diverse community?
Explain how the design is visionary and creative? How does it engage
the community and invite interest? What does it communicate about the
City? What about it is thought-provoking, entertaining, whimsical, original
and/or representative of high artistic excellence in urban design and
public art? Describe how it has emotional, inspirational, educational or
intellectual impact? Overall, does it uniquely enhance community
identity and generally enhance the public realm?
Relationship of the work to the site, i.e., does it serve to activate,
enhance or foster community involvement/ public participation in that
particular public space? How? Are the sites selected varied so as to be
particularly enjoyed by the population living nearby?
• Appropriateness of the artwork or design enhancement in terms of scale,
materials, form and content to the site should be evaluated. How do the
scale, form and content serve a functional purpose? In what way does it
otherwise enhance or define a civic space?
• Consideration should be given to structural and surface integrity,
permanence and outdoor protection of the artwork against theft,
vandalism, weathering, and excessive maintenance and repair costs.
• Experience of the artist in the creation of public art must be part of the
criteria. Does the artist have a successful track record, having executed
and installed works of public art in a timely manner and within budget
that will provide evidence of the ability to successfully complete a
project? Please explain. In some cases, consideration may be given to
whether the project fosters opportunities for local community artists.
Is the artwork being produced from artists of diverse ethnic cultural and
geographical identities so as to be somewhat representative of the
population of the community? Explain.
Is the artist willing to give warranties as requested such as copyright
belonging to artist, prove the technical feasibility, and evidence
adherence to safety standards? Explain. No piece of public art should
disrupt traffic, create a visual distraction that could expose the City to
liability, have any sharp or protruding edges or otherwise create a
nuisance.
• Does the piece of public art represent diversity of style, scale and
media? Explain.
• How will the art encourage other private art in private developments or
will it foster an opportunity for a joint public-private venture?
• Will it foster the possibility for a source of public funding and support in
addition to the City's own public art fund?
• Does it provide an educational opportunity for either children or adults or
both? Does it provide an opportunity for emerging artists.
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The PARC, with the endorsement of the City Manager, see its first
strategy as an integration with other planning and capital
improvement processes and projects. It has been exploring the
connection between capital improvement projects and other
municipal government projects with the opportunities for public art,
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hence the goals above. The PAAC is encouraging what they are
calling "art as infrastructure. 114
Site selection and identification for long-term and future art
throughout the City in public spaces, utilizing the criteria set forth
above including, public access, visibility, creation of a sense of fun,
community identification and social engagement, considering public
safety and engineering concerns set forth with specificity below.
* Civic monuments such as fountains or statuary;
* Textural projects to add beauty or ornamentation to public
buildings such as banners, decorative crosswalks;
* Creative placemaking furniture (sculpture as seating), playground
art and equipment, shade covering, fences and gates;
* Temporary exhibitions/interactive art/ "pop up" events/kiosks
to create spontaneity and dialogue (Instagram opportunities), festivals
for the arts; art walks;
* Gardens as art
* Sound and lighting as art
Recommendations for the selection of Public Art will be based on the
following guidelines, as they may be amended from time to time.
• What artistic merit does the art have and how is this accomplished? Is
there an inherent quality and sense of excellence?
4 See the current and potential projects in the attached Playbill including a Mediation Garden as part of the
mangrove restoration in town park which will house a renowned sculpture of a woman in a meditation pose
"Muse" by Seo, Young-Deok, placing art on the pedestrian bridges, unifying pedestrian walkways with cross-
walk art and redoing the City's entryway "signs" as sculptural three dimensional art.
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• How does the project foster the overall goals of the Cultural Master
Plan? Does it accomplish the purpose of this Program? Does it interpret
the City's civic and architectural traditions with a contemporary voice?
• Relevance and overall positive impact of the Public Art under
consideration to the City, including its values, culture, and people.
Consideration will be given to whether it has historical value, addresses
a social or environmental issue, or addresses the community as a whole
or a specific interest in this culturally diverse community?
Explain how the design is visionary and creative? How does it engage
the community and invite interest? What does it communicate about the
City? What about it is thought-provoking, entertaining, whimsical, original
and/or representative of high artistic excellence in urban design and
public art? Describe how it has emotional, inspirational, educational or
intellectual impact? Overall, does it uniquely enhance community
identity and generally enhance the public realm?
• Relationship of the work to the site, i.e., does it serve to activate,
enhance or foster community involvement/ public participation in that
particular public space? How? Are the sites selected varied so as to be
particularly enjoyed by the population living nearby?
• Appropriateness of the artwork or design enhancement in terms of scale,
materials, form and content to the site should be evaluated. How do the
scale, form and content serve a functional purpose? In what way does it
otherwise enhance or define a civic space?
• Consideration should be given to structural and surface integrity,
permanence and outdoor protection of the artwork against theft,
vandalism, weathering, and excessive maintenance and repair costs.
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