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I would think and hope that artists working and living in the region would be only too willing to donate representative samples of their art to municipal governments to be put on display in appropriate public places.
A form of self-promotion, leading to additional commercial sales.
Everyone wins.
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The town has actually been buying a piece of art from the annual Aurora Art Show for years.
We built the Skylight Gallery at the Town Hall to foster art in the community.
Paintings have been displayed on every available space on the walls of the first floor with prices and contact information ever since the town hall was built.
We must have quite a collection in various rooms throughout the building. Maybe they should all be gathered in one place.
The leisure services department have just announced once again the
annual picnic table painting competition for students..
The wood frame walls of the Armouries building in the town park could lend themselves very well to graffiti artists.
Benches in town in various locations would accommodate colorful figures and perhaps encourage the use for which they were intended. A worthy project for the shop courses in our newest high school.
All that's needed is imagination. Appreciation follows.
I'm fairly certain the town would welcome ideas.
It's just not the business of politicians to be imposing taxation for the purpose of imposing a profane political notion of what represents public art.
Imagine such a thing being decided by a majority vote.
Council couldn't even agree on a design for street furniture a few years ago.
Friday 9 March 2012
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We can do it in-house throughout the town and not restrict it to that one building of prima-donnas. Do they think they have a franchise on the taxpayers' dollars?
Toronto had a neat project a few years ago..They had a large group of moose sculptures and farmed them out to Artists and Special interest groups to paint any way they wanted. These were scattered throughout the city very effectively. You would find a moose gazing over a wall at you next to an enormous office building and they grazing peacefully in little parks where worker bees gathered for lunch. Cost to city was Zip.
Our only problem might be what large animal to select since the moose has been taken and the Trail of Tears in the States uses horses that become true works of art.
Too bad Canada is not home to elephants.
The Black bear could be used and would have a little funny story to go with it.
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The Ground Hog comes to mind ,You know, those pesky rodents who live under ground in secretive isolation feeding off what ever they can steal from the farmer. you only ever see them out on fair days and they are protective as hell of their burrow,
packs of coyotes or vultures that could be placed in trees
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