Item No. 9d.
Meeting Date: September, 24, 2019

Port-Wide Arts & Cultural
Program
Commission Presentation
September 24, 2019

Opportunities for Art: A New Port-Wide Art Strategy
• Connect People to Place
• Local Economic
Development
• Equity and Inclusion
• Customer Experience
• Public Engagement
• Steward Public Assets

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Port's Art Program History
• 1968: Sea-Tac Airport first art program
• 2000: Port 1% for Art Acquisition Established
• 2008: Port Art funding decreased to 0.5% and projects excluded

Frank Stella, York Factory A 1972
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A New Port-Wide Art Strategy
• Expanded public engagement, temporary exhibits and
cultural programming
• Establish new non-aviation art pool alongside existing aviation
art pool
• Art Pools increase clarity art spending
• Art Pools increase flexibility on art placement

• Exempt fishing capital projects
• Increase eligibility threshold to $300,000 on capital
construction projects
• Restore 1% art acquisition funding on capital construction
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1% Funding
(2020 - 2024 est.)
• $ 16.5m Airport
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$ 2m Maritime
$ 543k Corporate
$ 304k NWSA Joint Venture
$ 19.4 Total 1% Capital Acquisition

John Grade, Boundry (NSAT 2021)
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Steward of Public Assets
• Conservation Backlog and Public Art Database
• Art Handling and Conservation Requires Expertise

Louise Nevelson, Night Flight #1
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Community Engagement

• Rotating exhibition
opportunities
• Public art tours
• Large scale Port-wide
temporary art projects

Molly Gochman, Red Sand Project 2019-2020
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Next Steps
• November - Commission Action
• 2020 / 2021 Phased
implementation

Questions?

Dick Weiss, For A.W.
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Thank You!

Metz & Chew, Cathedral
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