DEPARTMENT: Department of Arts & Culture
DEPARTMENT HEAD: Debbie Racca-Sittre
COUNCIL DISTRICTS IMPACTED: All
SUBJECT:
An Ordinance approving a Pre-Qualified List of Public Art Professionals to be available for selection by the San Antonio Arts Commission and/or contracting and payment through the Department of Arts & Culture.
SUMMARY:
This ordinance approves a pre-qualified list of public art professionals whose services may be used to implement art projects established by the San Antonio Arts Commission and/or the Department of Arts & Culture in an amount not-to-exceed the budget allocation for public art and arts programming through the Department of Arts & Culture. This ordinance also authorizes contracts and payments subject to the availability of funds.
BACKGROUND INFORMATION:
The Department of Arts & Culture has issued an open call for artists since 2012 to create a pre-qualified list of public art professionals to be available for selection by the San Antonio Arts Commission and/or contracting and payment through the Department of Arts & Culture. In April 2019, City Council approved a list that still remains active for two more years.
In October 2019, the department issued an open call as part of a competitive and curated process to update the City's pre-qualified list of public art professionals comprised of public artists and art support services. Extensive outreach included: weekly emails to art professionals requesting they apply, inclusion in the department's newsletter which has a distribution of 5,000+ recipients, posting on the departments website and social media accounts, notices to all City Council Offices to share with constituents, and advertisements through various local and national trade publications/organizations. The goal of this open call and the outreach process was to seek new art professionals to be added to the already active list.
The Department of Arts & Culture evaluated the submitted qualifications of a...
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