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Commissioners thank donors for "Luminous Wave" offer but raise concerns about making a sculpture-loan pedestal permanent
Summary
Encinitas Friends of the Arts offered to donate the sculpture "Luminous Wave" for a Cardiff loan-pedestal site; commissioners welcomed the donation but said converting a rotating pedestal into a permanent site would remove a key rotating location from the sculpture-loan program.
Encinitas Friends of the Arts (EFA) offered the city a donation of a sculpture titled Luminous Wave to remain at a Cardiff-by-the-Sea pedestal currently used by the city's rotating sculpture loan program. Commissioners expressed appreciation for the donation and the artist's work, but several said converting a loan pedestal into a permanent site would undercut the loan program's purpose and reduce future opportunities for artists.
Commissioners reviewed the history of the sculpture-loan pedestals and noted that the program was originally designed to provide rotating public-art sites across the city's communities. Several commissioners said…
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