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HERITAGE AND CULTURAL ARTS COMMISSION
AGENDA STATEMENT
MEETING DATE:June 12, 2003
SUBJECT: Senior Center Art Project
ATTACHMENTS: 1. Rowland Cheney's Maquette will be presented at the meeting
2. Senior Center Site Plan
RECOMMENDATION: 1. Receive presentation from Staff
2. Receive public comment
3. Recommend Design to the City Council for Final Approval
FINANCIAL STATEMENT: $ 49,000 is available in the 2002-2007 Capital Improvement
Program for the Commission of the Senior Center Art Project.
DESCRIPTION: One of the high priority goals for the 2002-2003 set by City Council
was to commission Public Art for the new Senior Center. And as a result 1% was allocated for a Public
Art component as part of the Senior Center project.
In the Fiscal Year 2002-2003, a Request for Qualifications was sent to 2000 California artists to submit
their work. The Senior Center Art Selection Committee reviewed the works of the thirty—five responding
artists and selected five artists to develop maquettes for the Senior Center. The maquettes were displayed
at the Civic Center and the Senior Center for public comment. The comment cards completed as a result
of the display were provided to the Committee and after careful thought and consideration the Committee
chose Rowland Cheney's sculpture as the finalist. A maquette of the sculpture will be presented at the
meeting.
Mr. Cheney has spent the majority of his adult life teaching art at San Joaquin Delta College in Stockton,
California. Educated at Chico State and U.C. Berkeley, he works in a broad range of media and technique
including bronze, oil, watercolor and prints. Commissions represent the bulk of his work, including a
number of bronze bas-relief commemorative sculptures. He completeda five-year commitment to produce
a series of five collectable sculptures for the Breyer Corporation. The Termar Gallery of Durango, Pam
Driscoll Gallery of Aspen, Colorado and Atilier Frostad Gallery in Sacramento are currently representing
Rowland.
Mr. Cheney proposes a bronze sculpture approximately eight feet by eight feet utilizing images that have
been associated symbolically with the concept of wisdom throughout the centuries and across many
cultures.
• Cranes are seen worldwide and especially in Asia and Africa,as symbols of longevity, good fortune
and wisdom. In the sculpture a Cranes arches upward carrying its message of light and hope.
COPIES TO: Rowland Cheney,artist
Senior Center Art Selection Committee
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• • Owls are an essential part of Celtic European and Native America symbology and represent the
wisdom invoked by the ever-watchful solitude of night. Beneath the wings of the owl as part of
the wisdom of the woods are seen the faces of the ancients.
• Horses have long been connected to wisdom's purity and power. They are transcendent creatures
aiding humanities earthly pursuits while retaining a spiritual quality needed to attain true wisdom.
The Patina colors and the placement of the elements of the sculpture are meant to provoke a feeling of
continuum and balance of life forces that is wisdom.
It is the recommendation of Staff that the Heritage and Cultural Arts Commission take the following
action: 1) receive presentation from Staff; 2) receive public comment; and 3) recommend design to the
City Council for final approval.
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