Public Art Project Progressing
Duluth Gateway Art Project Committee plans to issue call Aug. 1 for artists to design art for center of Roundabout.
Several members of the Gateway Arts Project Committee will be making a presentation at the Duluth City Council’s July 23 work session on public art to be commissioned for the grass circle in the center of the new Roundabout that links McClure Bridge Road, Irvindale Road and West Lawrenceville Street. In an update to the council at its regular July 9 meeting Mayor Nancy Harris told the council the GAP Committee plans to issue a call for artists to design the Roundabout art at the major gateway to the city Aug. 1. AGCO has donated $100,000 toward the cost of the art, and the city has budgeted $2,000 for landscaping, which the mayor said would be designed as part of the art project. “The budget has expanded to $100,000-$120,000,” Harris said…
ScottRAB
2:21 pm on Wednesday, July 18, 2012
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