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Originally Posted by Muta
Often times with public art, a call for bids is sent out, and anybody can bid on the project (there are trade agreements in place to allow this). If nobody local bids on the project, or the best and/or most cost-efficient bid comes from a non-local bidder, then that's the way it goes. This occurrence frequently gets forgotten/overlooked amongst the public art discussion.
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This seems like a backward way to source public art for civic purposes. Why not often an incentive program or scholarships to local art institutions or schools and have them submit designs and pick from them? If you can spend $2.25M on one piece of uninspiring art, you could at least spend $225,000 on 10 different art projects from students and cycle through a new one every few months.