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Encinitas archivist says city has roughly 800 public artworks; calls for online inventory and partnerships
Summary
Hillel Schwartz of the Encinitas Historical Society presented a multi-year inventory that documents more than 800 public artworks in Encinitas and urged a digital map, volunteer contributions and collaboration with Visit Encinitas and MiraCosta students.
Hillel Schwartz, archivist with the Encinitas Historical Society, told the commission April 7 that his ongoing inventory effort has documented roughly 803 works of public art visible today in Encinitas and called on the city and local partners to create a durable digital index.
Schwartz told commissioners that his count — West of Interstate 5 and east combined — includes works on private and public property that are “fully and freely visible to an undifferentiated public.” His inventory, he said, currently lists 571 works west of I-5 (60 of those have vanished) and 157 east of I-5 (five vanished), plus about 40 distinct painted or crafted…
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