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Evaluation and Selection of Grant Proposals Received in Response to Cultural Arts and Arts Programming Request for Proposals
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To: Honorable Chairperson Rush and Members of the Public Art Commission
EXECUTIVE SUMMARY
The City of Alameda (City) Public Art Master Plan (Plan) calls for the "release [of] a grant application for Cultural Arts and Arts Programming." Per the Five-Year Action Plan, the City will release annual Requests for Proposals for Cultural Art and Arts Programming. The 2025 Cultural Art and Arts Programming RFP was released on January 29, 2025; proposals were due on March 20, 2025. A total of seventeen (17) proposals were received and the Public Art Commission (PAC) are being asked to evaluate the Cultural Arts and Arts Programming proposals and award $60,000 to the applicant organizations.
BACKGROUND
Alameda Municipal Code (AMC) Section 30-98 Public Art in New Commercial, Industrial, Residential and Municipal Construction (Ordinance) requires that major development projects include on-site public art. The Ordinance also permits an applicant to pay an in-lieu fee for providing the art on-site. Any in-lieu fees collected are deposited in the dedicated Public Art Fund (Fund). The Fund can then only be used by the City to provide or support public art.
In December of 2020, the Public Art Commission (PAC) identified the creation of a Public Art Master Plan to guide the implementation of the City's public art program, in alignment with the vision and goals of the City Council, PAC, and the Alameda community. Year one of the Five-Year Action Plan included in the Plan, which outlines actionable tasks to be taken over the next five years, identifies the "release [of] a grant application for Cultural Arts and Arts Programming".
Throughout the development of the draft Plan, staff received feedback from the PAC, arts organizations, artists, as well as members of the community regarding the timing, scale, and regularity of cultural arts and...
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