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BACKGROUND: In September 2014, artist Terry Allen completed the first phase of his installation Scioto Lounge at Genoa Park. The installation consists of two bronze deer - one sitting, one reclining, and both looking out over the Scioto River. As part of Allen’s contract, three additional, related art proposals were commissioned.
This legislation is submitted to complete the Scioto Lounge installation with a third deer, standing mid-point along the north rail of the Rich Street Bridge. All three deer will be viewable from the promenade along the east bank of the river.
The Department of Public Service has reviewed the proposal and has approved moving forward with the installation. On January 27, 2015, the Columbus Art Commission approved the design and placement of the art. Allen was one of three finalists in the 2012 North Bank Park Public Art Project, a curated invitational process.
Terry Allen, a graduate of the Chouinard Art Institute in Los Angeles, CA, is an artist, musician and writer whose work has been shown nationally and internationally. Allen has received numerous awards and honors including a Guggenheim Fellowship and National Endowment for the Art Fellowships. Allen has had work at Documenta and at the San Paolo, Paris, Sydney and Whitney Biennales. His work is represented in major public and private collections, including the Metropolitan Museum of Art, Museum of Modern Art in New York, and the Hirshhorn in Washington DC. Allen was the first artist in residence at the Wexner Center for the Performing Arts at The Ohio State University.
FISCAL IMPACT: This legislation authorizes the appropriation of $154,200 from the Miranova TIF - City Riverfront Vision Account (Ordinance 1578-98), approved by Columbus City Council on June 29, 1998.
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To authorize the appropriation of $154,200.00 from the Miranova TIF - City Riverfront Vision Account; to authorize the Director of Development to enter into a Design/Build Contract with Te...
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