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University of Guam regents approve public art for WERI and nursing annex
Summary
The University of Guam Board of Regents unanimously approved Resolution No. 26-01 to install public artworks at the Water and Environmental Research Institute building and the Margaret Perez Atorri Uchima School of Health Nursing Annex, selecting Guam artists registered with CAHA under the 1% for the arts requirement.
The University of Guam Board of Regents unanimously approved Resolution No. 26-01 on Jan. 14 to accept selected public-art proposals for the Water and Environmental Research Institute of the Western Pacific (WERI) building and the Margaret Perez Atorri Uchima School of Health Nursing Annex.
The Physical Facilities Committee reported it had reviewed responses to an RFP issued by the university for the 1% for the arts projects and forwarded a list of selected local artists to the full board. The committee told the board the selected artists are Guam local artists registered with the Guam Council on the Arts and Humanities Agency (CAHA) and that the proposals meet the cultural and artistic objectives described in the relevant statute. The committee chair moved the resolution to the floor; Regent Dehaliwa seconded the motion, and the board voted to approve the resolution unanimously.
A university staff member said the university received multiple submissions for the two projects and noted some spaces initially received no submissions; in those cases the university reached back out to local artists and to interested artists in Hawai‘i. Committee members acknowledged College of Liberal Arts and Social Sciences faculty Velma Yamashita and Troy McVey for helping to lead the review effort. The staff member also said titles of the selected works and an allocation summary appear in the board packet.
The vote approves the selection list and confirms the projects comply with the arts-and-public-buildings requirement cited by the committee. The resolution does not specify dollar totals for the artwork allocations in the public record excerpted in the meeting; budget amounts are not specified in the board remarks during the meeting.
The board did not request further study before voting. The next procedural step is implementation of the selected artists’ work under the oversight of the university and applicable procurement and arts statutes.
