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HomeMy WebLinkAboutC23840 Lynn Basa, Artist - Fountain Feature at Palma Village Neighborhood ParkCONTRACT NO. C23840 CITY OF PALM DESERT COMMUNITY SERVICES STAFF REPORT REQUEST: CONSIDERATION OF A $1,000 DESIGN FEE TO ARTIST, LYNN BASA, FOR THE FOUNTAIN FEATURE AT PALMA VILLAGE NEIGHBORHOOD PARK SUBMITTED BY: Richard L. Twedt APPLICANT: Public Art Program of the City of Palm Desert DATE: June 9, 2005 CONTENTS: Copies of artist's visual materials Recommendation: By Minute Motion, approve a design fee in the amount of $1,000 for artist, Lynn Basa, to create three design proposals for the mosaic fountain feature at the Palma Village Neighborhood Park. Executive Summary: At its May 18, 2005, meeting the Art in Public Places Commission unanimously approved a design fee of $1,000 for artist Lynn Basa to create three mosaic designs for the water feature at the Palma Village Neighborhood Park. Ms. Basa was given a tour of the site and was extremely excited about creating a mosaic fountain feature for the park. Planning Technician Ryan Stendell, who is responsible for the administration of the park project, endorses the commissioning of Ms. Basa to create designs for the fountain feature. Discussion: The Palma Village Neighborhood Park located on De Anza Way was recently dedicated and opened to the public. The AIPP fees associated with the project are approximately $10,000. Originally, the two small bronze sculptures in the Council Chamber (Proceed with Caution and Untitled — Boy with Frog) were to be installed in the park as part of a water feature. However, it was staffs recommendation to the Assistant City Manager of Development Services that the sculptures should be installed in a more secure environment and not be part of a water feature, which would create additional maintenance expenses for the cleaning of calcium deposits from constant contact of water. 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"Bteez," ii x tow i W.": f%l I .1t 1t )11:, .1 \cx M-1 Above: 3' -;,. 4-Li:; ... 31.11 t- LL:" '00""Y' cl!ic.aqc- Below: Red "?a ".0i- F-jj_ r,g, T:I:S v.,;V j)t, WOrking .%-ithout a Net I IVOW :NC 10. A:. A A. Li d rark:%-, I C:i,; .1, J AO!. 01, Fibcran% 3004 summri,t 27 Richard Twedt Public Arts Manager City of Palm Desert 73-510 Fred Waring Dr. Palm Desert, CA 92260-2578 May 11, 2005 Dear Mr. Twedt: Thank you very much for considering me for a commission to design, produce, and install the art work for a fountain basin in the Las Palmas Villas Park. I enjoyed visiting the site with you last week and think it is the perfect spot to create an exquisite, playful jewel of a mosaic and/or terrazzo art work. I have included several examples of recent projects for which I am being considered. Most notably, I am thE! finalist for a 6300 sq.ft. mosaic, terrazzo, and granite ring for the center of the new Indianapolis airport. The way I have worked for the last 15 years is to create drawings for the art work and then subcontract with expert fabricators to produce and install the actual piece. In the case of the Las Palmas Villas Park, I would have the mosaic done by the same studio that has done the floors for Washington National Airport, Orlando Airport, and many other large public spaces. It would arrive in Palm Desert ready to install, either by the mosaic studio or one of your local tile contractors. I would be present for the installation. The amount of mosaic versus terrazzo used would be determined by the budget. Combining terrazzo with mosaic is an ancient technique. It's quite effective decoratively and practically because the terrazzo can be poured right up to the mosaic without having to use divider strips. The entire surface can be ground smooth at the same time. The Flower Mill fragment that I left with you has a rougher surface than what I would propose for this project. However, it does show the singular quality of the hand -cut granite, marble, clay, ano glass tesserae. My terms are a $1000 design fee for three preliminary concepts. Artist's fee for final working drawings, fabrication of art work, travel, and installation of art work would comprise the remainder of tie project budget. Any samples required by the committee will be billed separately. As I understood from our conversation, fountain infrastructure would be covered by the City. Please let me know if there is something I have not covered. And, thanks again for this opportunity. Sincerely, Lynn basa • 2248 n. campbell chicago 60647 (773) 289-3616 studio lynnbasa@lynnbasa.com www.lynnbasa.com LYNN BASA 2248 N. Campbell Ave. Chicago, IL 60647 (773) 289-3616 IynnbasaCClynnbasa.com; www.11ynnbasa.com EXHIBITS (selected) 2005 ART at El Paseo Square, solo exhibit, Palm Desert 2004 FLATF1LEcontemporary, solo exhibit Chicago ART at El Paseo Square, solo exhibit Palm Desert 2003 Far Off the Runway, Virginia Breier Gallery, San Francisco ART at El Paseo Square, Palm Desert Function + Art, Summer Spotlight, Chicago Domystique, Columbia College, Chicago 2002 Wood Street Gallery, solo exhibit, Chicago Sagebrush Gallery, solo exhibitSun Valley Sanctuary, Friesen Gallery, Seattle Fiber Arts Today, Mobilia Gallery, Cambridge Chicago Art Open, Chicago Artists' Coalition Function + Art, Chicago Art-o-Mat, Chicago and the world 2001 SOFA Chicago; Snyderman Gallery 2000 Absolut Anniversary, Grand Central Station, New York The House Form, Target Gallery, Torpedo Factory, Alexandria, VA Miniatures: 2000, Helen Drutt: Philadelphia Women Consuming, Women Consumed, Matrix Arts Intl. 2000, Sacramento 1999 The Woven Image: 20th Century Tapestry, Ukrainian Institute, Chicago Uncommon Thread, Spruill Center for the Arts, Atlanta 1998 SOFA Chicago Exposition; Mobilia Gallery G. Gibson Gallery, Seattle 1997 Leedy/Voulkos Gallery, Kansas City, MO SOFA Chicago Exposition; Mobilia Gallery 1996 SOFA Chicago Exposition; Mobilia Gallery Pacific NW Annual, Bellevue Art Museum, Bellevue, WA 1995 SOFA Chicago Exposition; Mobilia Gallery Solo show, Mobilia Gallery, Cambridge, MA Agents of Change; Washington State Convention Center SamplerArt, Mobilia Gallery, Cambridge, MA 1994 Invitational Textile Exhibit, Mobilia Gallery, Cambridge, MA 2 Hats: Artist/Administrator,/Curator/Critic, Seattle Pacific Univ. 1993 New Acquisitions, Rhode Island School of Design Museum New Acquisitions: Craft Today USA, American Craft Museum, NYC No Place Like Home, Bellevue Art Museum, Bellevue, WA Honey, I Shrunk the Art 11, History of the World Part III, Stanwood, WA Textiles, Metal and Wood, King County Arts Commission, Seattle New Art Forms, Chicago (with Mobilia Gallery) The Farrell Collection, Washington, D.C.; Curator: A. Brennan New Textiles, Mobilia Gallery, Cambridge Small Expressions, Hearst Center for the Arts, Cedar Falls, Iowa Small Works, Interweave Press, Loveland, Colorado -Lynn Basa Page Two 1992 The New Narrative, North Carolina State University, Raleigh Absolut Artists of the 90's, Laura Larkin Gallery, San Diego Small-scale Crafts, Maveety Gallery, Salishan, Oregon Honey, i Shrunk the Art, History of the World Part lll, Stanwood, WA 1991 Masterworks of Northwest Crafts, Bellevue Art Museum; Bellevue; WA Contemporary- Textiles, Trenton- City Museum, New Jersey Small Expressions '91, Lane Community College, Eugene, Oregon Tapestry Artists of Puget Sound, Frye Museum, Seattle 1990 Art Works for AIDS; Seattle Small Scale Fiber Art, Art Works Gallery; Seattle Pacific No�t Arts and Crafts Festival Visual Arts Exhibition; Bellevue Art Museum Small Expressions; San Jose 1989 Craft Today -- USA; American Craft Museum; touring museums in Paris, Helsinki, Frankfurt, Warsaw, Lausanne, Moscow, Ankara, Prague, Ghent, Goteborg, East Berlin, Barcelona. Through 1992; Curator: Paul Smith Threadworks; Smithsonian. institution Traveling Exhibition Services; touring museums in Swaziland, Zimbabwe, Tanzania, Uganda, Rwanda, Ethiopia, Madagascar, Mauritius. Through 1991; Curator: Lloyd Herman 1988 Craft Today -- Poetry of the Physical; American Craft Museum; US tour Linda Hodges GWIery, Seattle New Visions Gallery, Ithaca, NY 1987 Microcosms: Small Scale Textiles, University of Wisconsin -- Greenbay Small Scale Fiber, Textile Arts Center, Chicago 1986 Tacoma Art Museum. Solo exhibit Art Work/Working Art, Bellevue Art Museum West Coast Tapestry, Portland, OR The Blank Wall Solution, The Public Art Space, Seattle Small Expressions, Toronto 1985 Modern, Master Tapestries, New York Worcester Craft Center, Worcester, MA American Art Company, Fiber Invitational, Tacoma 19S4 Fine Focus, Craft Alliance, St, Louis Small ExpressionslLarge Celebrations, Denton, TX COLLECTIONS Public collections (selected) Absolut Vodka (Carillon Importers), American .Craft Museum, New York Astrazeneca Corporation Children's Hospitaf, Boston Deloitte Touche, Chicago - Desert Mountain Golf Club, Carefree, Arizona Greenberg Traurig, LLC, Atlanta Highland -Hospital, Oakland King Country Arts Commission, Northwest Collections King -Cow Library System Maplewood School, Edmonds, WA Lynn $asa Page Three North Carolina State University Regency Bank, Geneva, IL Rhode Island School of Design Museum St. Joseph Hospital, Bellingham, WA Seattle -Arts Commission, City -light Collection special purchase Seattle University School of Law Spencer Museum, University of Kansas, Lawrence SAFEGO insurance Company, Seattle U.S. Ambassador's residence, Kamapla, Uganda U.S. Ambassadors residence, Zagreb, Croatia University of Washington University of Washington Medical Center Washington State Arts Commission purchases: Pierce College Shoreline Community College Private collections Gail Alvarez Mark and Sharon Bloome Julia Calhoun Lili Church, MD John and Nancy Daughterty Bill Donnelly and Lori Patton Jeremy Eknoian Charles Glick and Elizabeth Cline Ruth and Jack Fay Irma Goertzen Layne Goldsmith Phyllis Hatfield Rodger and Mary Jane Haggitt, MD Anne Gould Hauberg Susan Hautala and Mark Malamud Lezlie Jane Jimmy's Table John Franklin Koenig Chris and Alida Latham Julian Ley Kent Lovelace Erin and Phillip Lowe, MD Daryl Maveety VVilliarn and Esther McCormick Scott and Laurie Noegel Steven and Susan Oberlink Karl -Ake and Lena Omnell, MD Sophia Petrou Carla and Udo Reich Torn and Sally Reeve Koryn Rolstad Chase Rynd Ghiori Santiago Julie Shapiro and Megan McClintock Eve Sosland Jon and Mary Shirley Ann Woodliff Larry Zalin Lynn Basa Page Four PUBLICATIONS American Craft, October/November 1990 American Craft, October/November 1986 American Craft Museum, 1988 Appointment Calendar American Style, (cover and feature) Fall 1997 Architectural Digest, March 2001 Art & Antiques, March 1991 (Absolut Vodka ad) Artworks for AIDS, exhibition catalog, 1990 Chicago Home, Fall 2003 (profile) Chicago Tribune magazine, Sept. 12, 2004 Connoiseur, April 1991 (Absolut Vodka ad) Craft Today -- Poetry of the Physical, exhibition catalog, 1988 Craft Today --USA, exhibition catalog, 1989 Design and Architecture, Chicago (profile) November 2004 Fiberarts, November/December 2002 Fiberarts, March/April2000 Fiberarts, January/February (feature) 1994 -Fiberarts, November/Decernber 1993; Summer 1991 Fiberarts, Fall 1989 Fiberarts Design Book 2,3,4, 1989-91 Los Angeles- Tithes; 1 /20/91 Manhattan Arts International, March/April 2000 Metropolitan_ Living, March 2001 The New Narrative, exhibition catalog, (feature)1992 New York Times, January 20; 1991 Object Lessons: Beauty and Meaning in Art, 2001 San Francisco. Chronicle, (:cover. and.{ �rofile)February-3, 1999. Seattle Homes and Lifestyles, (profile) March, 1998 Seattle Magazine, November 1998 Seattle- Post lntelfigencer, 7125/91 Seattle Post Intelligencer, 1/12/95 Seattle Post Intelligencer, 7/26M Seattle Weekly, (profile) Oct. 1996 The Woven Image: 20th Century Tapestry; Friends of Fiberarts,2000 1999 Artist Trust GAP award 1998 Seattle Artists/Visual Arts; Seattle Arts Commission Purchase Award 1997 Open Studio Website Design grant; Benton Foundation, Seattle Art Museum, Seattle Public Library f UEN-fSHED Af ML-ES {B"iography available upon -request) Fiberarts The Journal -American (weekly column) Reflex, Seattle Shuttle. Soindle and Dveoot lregolar column) The Seattle Weeklv Lynn Basa Page Five EDUCATION 1981 Master of Public Administration in Arts Management University of Washington., Seattle 1977 Bachelor of Arts in studio art, art history Indiana University, Bloomington RELATED EXPERIENCE 2004 Chicago Dept. of Cultural Affairs, Project Coordinator, Chicago Artists Resource 1986- Founding Director/Curator, University of Washington Medical Center 1998 Art Program, Seattle 1981- Art Curator, SAFECO Insurance Company 1986 Seattle 1985- Freelance writer for Fiberarts, Shuttle, Spindle & Dyepot, 1997 Journal -American MENIBEMKLPS AND COMMITTEES Seattle Arts Commission, Public Art Committee (chair), 1999 - 2001 Metro (Seattle/King County) Arts Committee (co-chair) 1993 - 1996 Americans for the Arts, Public Art Network International Sculpture Center Seattle Arts Commission, Public Art Committee (chair), 1999 - 2001 Metro (Seattle/King County) Arts Committee (co-chair) 1993 - 1996 Friends of Fiber Arts Art Institute of Chicago Museum -of Contemporary Art, Chicago Chicago Artists' Coalition LECTURES, PANELS AND JURIES (List available on request)