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CRA committee selects two mural sites and narrows artist candidates for public input
Summary
The CRA advisory committee recommended Project Lift (601 Atlantic Ave.) and Sailfish (130 N. Second St.) for mural funding and forwarded a top-3 artist shortlist for community input and FPRA consideration.
FORT PIERCE, Fla. — The Fort Pierce CRA Advisory Committee on May 28 recommended that two property-owner mural projects be advanced to the Fort Pierce Redevelopment Agency (FPRA) and, after reviewing more than 70 artist submissions, narrowed the artist selection to three finalists for community input.
Sarah, the CRA staff member who presented the mural program, told the committee the program opened property-owner applications two weeks earlier and that the CRA had a $50,000 mural budget. She said Project Lift’s proposal for 601 Atlantic Avenue — a parking-lot mural that would highlight a student welding theme tied to Project Lift’s local youth trades program — carried an estimated budget of $10,000. The committee also recommended a mural project at 130 North Second Street (identified in the meeting as Sailfish) as a second site to advance.
Committee members reviewed a long list of artist submissions — staff said more than 70 entries were received — and discussed artistic quality, visibility, technical ability to execute large-scale work, and the desirability of lighting to improve nighttime visibility. After scoring and discussion, the panel voted to recommend the two property-owner projects to the FPRA board and to forward an artist shortlist for the Sunrise Theater wall project: Shane Grammer, Sitki Dogen and Sean Coffey.
A motion recorded during the meeting asked staff to seek community input on the finalists; committee members suggested a website survey or social-media poll to gather public preference and to engage local stakeholders. The committee approved the recommendation by voice vote and directed staff to prepare the materials for FPRA consideration.
The program timeline calls for selected artists to return with finalized designs and for FPRA approval before contracts are executed. Staff said chosen artists who receive funding will execute work under the terms of a grant/contract that will require execution of any applicable licenses and, where necessary, permissions to use likenesses or historic images.
