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Centerville council adopts five-year public art plan, schedules projects from 2025 to 2029
Summary
Council approved the Centerville Public Art Plan, a five-year framework that outlines near-term projects including a Keep America Beautiful partnership, a Stubbs Park sculpture, an Uptown gateway enhancement and a Storybook Trail ADA-accessible installation.
The Centerville City Council on March 3 approved the city’s five-year public art plan, a strategic framework that lays out projects and programming through 2029.
City staff presenter Kate Botstorf described the plan as primarily inspirational at its outer-year horizons but identified several concrete near-term items: partnership work tied to the Keep America Beautiful affiliate effort in 2025, a gateway enhancement project in Uptown, the installation of a “Centerville Scribe” sculpture at Stubbs Park slated to debut in May, and a Storybook Trail that will be ADA accessible at Stubbs Park.
Botstorf summarized survey results used to shape the plan, saying the top three roles residents want public art to play are beautifying public spaces, supporting local artists and enhancing community culture. She said the top locations indicated by survey respondents are Stubbs Park, Uptown and Benham’s Grove.
The plan’s near-term programming also includes the Uptown Art Affair in April (a successor to the long-running Art of the Trace), expanded city-produced programming at Town Hall Theater, and improvements to the Veterans Memorial area to be unveiled on Memorial Day that will include an addition identified as a Space Force memorial. Botstorf also listed possible projects for later years, including sticker-style murals, electric-box vinyl wraps, a sculpture in Uptown, relaunching the Stubbs Park memorial bench program and exploring interactive installations or traveling exhibits.
Council members responded positively in discussion, with several noting Uptown holiday lighting has drawn compliments from business owners. Council Member Enger asked about collaboration with local arts students; Botstorf confirmed students have been included in police-station gallery programming and endorsed further collaboration for murals or chalk events.
Deputy Mayor Belinda Kenley moved to approve the public art plan; Council Member Elk seconded. After a voice vote, the mayor announced the motion carried and the plan was approved.
The adopted document is a policy framework rather than a set of binding projects; Botstorf emphasized that many illustrations in the plan are conceptual and that some items are aspirational for later years. Funding mechanisms and implementation steps were not finalized at the March 3 meeting. The plan notes one specific grant opportunity: a Storybook Trail program from the state of Ohio that supports ADA-accessible trail installations.
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