With the redesign of the entry plaza to come into compliance with Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) standards, an opportunity is available to re-envision the entire outdoor entry of the downtown library. The direction from initial stakeholders includes creating a handicap-accessible design that highlights the building and its entry, creates outdoor seating for library programming, develops a donor recognition opportunity (e.g., bricks or otherwise), and includes artwork that reflects what a library represents.
Artist Search
A selection panel of community members and library representatives is currently working to select artists to interview. The focus is to find an artist to work with a design team, including a landscape architect, to create art that integrates with the new redesign of the library entry.
Vision
Direction for the public art is:
- To successfully contextualize the art within the plaza
- To have the artist determine the type of artwork
- To amplify the programming of the plaza to the greatest extent possible
- To create, fabricate and install artwork that exemplifies:
- Community bonds
- Community enrichment
- Excavation of ideas
- Exploration
- Imagination
- Learning
- Possibilities
- Seeking
Concepts, Proposals & Construction
Concepts and proposals are likely to begin to be vetted in late 2020 to early 2021. Construction of the new entry plaza is likely to begin during the summer of 2021.
