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COMMITTEE MEMBER PRESENTATION TO
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By -Andrea Truitt, Public Art Advisory Committee Chair
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CITY OF IOWA CITY
410 East Washington Street
Iowa City, Iowa 52240- 1 826
(319) 356-5000
(319) 356-5009 FAX
www.icgov.org
FY2026-2030
Public Art Strategic Plan
Presentp ion
August 5, 2025
GENERAL OBSERVATIONS
Key Concepts:
Committee as .onnectc , ;onnectinc artists and
neighborhoods with resources
Working within our local arts and economic
ecosystem(s)
Plan dovetails with City's strategic plan values, and ties into
regional plans such as Better Together 2030
Plan picks up on and roves forward with some of the 2020-
2025 plan's goals while reaffirmina and updating committee's
ethos of access to art in neighborhoods and artist resources
Playing a role? Local zeitgeist/spirit of the times and state and
national funding pressures #vibes
Grant Wood: A Neighborhood of Seasons, 2014
PLANNING PROCESS TIMELINE
January2024
PAAC review of current (FY21-25) Strategic Plan progress
July 2024
PAAC review of budgetary and geographic distributions
August 2024
Arts Stakeholder Input Meeting
January 2025
Public input survey
March 2025
PAAC strategic priorities discussion
May 2025
PAAC strategic planning work session
June 2025
PAAC strategic plan adopted
Open Air Media Festival, partially funded by a Public Art Matching Grant.
Maintenance & Stewardship
2025: Completed City's first -ever condition assessment by
Midwest Art Conservation Center
Deaccessioned works deemed irreparable became
catalysts for condition assessment
Kovalev Sculptures, 2010
Woodland Walkway, 2011
Recent and Upcoming Projects: Conservation Training for Staff
Refresh: One's Reality: location change
and new paint with local artist Dave
Dennis
2025 Condition Assessment performed
identified potential projects
COST-EFFECTIVE CONSERVATION BY
CITY STAFF
Bronze sculpture workshop and wax
paste how-to fun!
Artist Workforce & Local Creative Economy
Public Art Matching Grant Program as expression
of communityvalues and local economic power
Development of other resources/info sessions
PAAC working as CONNECTOR of artists with
community assets (exhibition and studio space)
and partners
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Strategic Partnerships & Funding
This is the biggest area of growth in this plan:
partnerships intentionally place PAAC into the arts and
economic ecosystems
PAAC's scope is not changing, but the Economic Development
Coordinator is the PAAC liaison, so new opportunities to
connect people/places/resources
Arts Alliance Feasibility Study
Can feel "Better Together" with University, City, organizations,
artist partnerships
Open Air Media Festival partially funded by a Public Art Matching
Grant. Public Space One -based project using outdoor screen in
Chauncey Swan Park.
Place -Based Expansion & Community Access
Continuing to prioritize neighborhouu5 for projects
Prioritizing pop-up, temporary, or mobile art experiences,
doing more in public facilities; acknowledging the shortage of
exhibition space
River -focused public art initiative with local and university
stakeholders; ties into Better Together 2023 plan; upcoming
work on the Burlington Street bridge (city, state and university
stakeholders) happening too
Working in tandem with City and Better Together 2030 plans
to complement efforts across the City and Johnson County
Aerial view of Uplift, 2025, on Lakeside Drive
PRESENTATION CONCLUDED
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CITY OF IOWA CITY
410 East Washington Street
Iowa City, Iowa 52240- 1 826
(319) 356-5000
(319) 356-5009 FAX
www.icgov.org