05-17-2016, 12:11 PM
(05-17-2016, 12:09 PM)MidTowner Wrote: “A place where the public could create/install art” sounds to me like the fence across the street where someone (anyone?) can hang something up, or maybe a blank wall to encourage graffiti? I have no idea who hung the pieces on the fence on King, but I’ve assumed it’s just some concerned citizen who wanted to liven up the space, and that it was no cost to the public.
If that’s the case, I’m grateful to that person. It’s something. There's no arguing with taste, and maybe no accounting for it, either. I was happy to see someone do something there. I would not be so pleased if our municipal staff took the time to plan a parkette with reusable features at a sensible cost, and our council instead opted to let people take it upon themselves to do something, and let's call it art.
I've assumed that the Acker site fence was done by the City or the BIA, but I don't know.