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Ann Arbor Public Art Commission revises 2025 plan, reshuffles working groups and readies input on city land-use plan
Summary
The commission updated its 2025 plan and goals, moved several initiatives between working groups, struck a percent-for-art goal for this year and discussed submitting collective feedback on the city's 50-year comprehensive land-use plan to planning staff and the Capital Improvements Program (CIP) group.
The Ann Arbor Public Art Commission reviewed and revised its 2025 plan and goals, agreeing to redistribute several initiatives among working groups and to prepare collective feedback on the city’s comprehensive land-use plan.
Erin (staff member) led the commission through line-by-line edits of the plan. Commissioners agreed to absorb some items from the business-owners-and-developers working group into other groups: recommendations to the planning department and feedback on the 50-year comprehensive land-use plan will be handled by the CIP working group; outreach to developers and designers will move to the Outreach group; and communications-related work such as an idea book would sit with Communications.
Commission members also discussed removing the commission’s “percent for art” initiative from this year’s active goals, citing staff and other agencies’ shifting priorities and the commission’s new endowment funding option. Mary (Ann Arbor Public Art Commission member) said the percent-for-art conversation could be retained as a longer-term “vision for sustainability” item rather than an active goal for 2025.
The commission noted a current opportunity to provide unified feedback on the city’s comprehensive land-use plan, which the planning department had released for public review. Erin posted the land-use engagement site in the meeting and commissioners discussed drafting formal comments; the CIP working group will coordinate any commission submission.
Sophie (nonvoting member) said she will remain active as a nonvoting participant on communications, outreach and special projects even as she steps off the commission. The commission also discussed internship and social-media strategies to populate an Instagram account and digital public-art tour, and talked about collaborating with Creative Washtenaw and other partners for outreach.
No final vote on the plan’s submission was recorded at the meeting; commissioners plan to finalize the edited plan for submission to city council in late May or by the meeting slated for June 2, pending internal reviews and council scheduling.
